Head of Technical

Greencore; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of 1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

This role will cover our Northampton site, with regular visits to the M&S office in London.

What you'll be doing

As Senior Head of Technical you will provide support and functional leadership to the site and engage with the central technical function to ensure that the technical agenda, customer, supply base and business priorities are all aligned and deliver a competitive edge through technical excellence.

• Provide strategic leadership and direction through continuous advancement of technical performance, aligned to functional activity, which keeps Greencore's product and processes safe, legal and compliant.
• Lead the technical phase of our Group IT transformation project MBE (Making Business Easy) to improve our quality systems.
• Maintain a strategic relationship with the Group Technical teams to ensure alignment and compliance with customer expectations and site requirements.
• Engage with Purchasing, Group SMEs, and Business Improvement functions to ensure technical governance is maintained throughout and a consistent approach is managed with sites and customers.
• Support Group Sustainability and Ethical teams on strategic delivery of Group key performance indicators, including resource management, nutritional compliance, waste reduction, and modern slavery within supply chains.
• Develop and identify opportunities to drive the technical strategy to maximum effectiveness to deliver business customer objectives.
• Support and project manage as and when required as food alerts or industry-wide issues arise.
• Disseminate and improve technical performance and compliance through best practice adoption and communication internally and externally.
• Find and provide solutions to solve technical issues to deliver business and customer projects.
• Provide a senior interface with customers and joint business planning activities to deliver exceptional standards of customer service and adherence to customer policies and requirements.

What we're looking for

We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Must be able to travel to the customer and other GC sites.
• Represent the Technical function at external research and advisory bodies to drive consistent technical agendas that meet the business and customer needs.
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that across the technical team's people are engaged, focused, developed, and delivering their potential providing high performance capability. Build capability centrally through a combination of coaching and training to build and sustain the technical function in line with business needs.
• Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset.
• Support the achievement of our inclusion and diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity.
• Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures, and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company share save scheme.
• Greencore Qualifications.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.