Master Baker

Wallace Hind Selection; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid company car

Car allowance

5% Pension

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection seeks a Master Baker transitioning to technical sales support for bakery equipment. Home-based, UK-wide coverage with Europe trips for tests and training. You will support the sales team and manage key customer relationships in both large commercial and artisan bakeries.

The role suits an experienced Bakery Manager or Supervisor with product development or continuous improvement experience and ideally automation exposure; relevant bakery qualifications are expected.

Qualifications

• Experience as Bakery Manager or Supervisor with product development or CI exposure.
• Ideally experience with automated pastry lines.
• Relevant bakery or pastry qualifications and strong client communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical sales support to the bakery market and sales team.
• Travel to Europe for product tests, trials and training 4–6 times annually.
• Balance home-based work with client visits across the UK.

Skills

Bakery management

Client communication

Continuous improvement

Product development

Education

Bakery qualifications

Pastry chef qualifications

Job description

Master Baker

A rare opportunity for a commercially minded qualified and experienced Bakery Manager or Baker to move into a technical sales support role for a manufacturer of bakery equipment, specifically dough processing systems, sold to the bakery market across the UK, both to large commercial & smaller artisan/craft bakeries.

BASIC SALARY

up to £50,000 Base

BENEFITS

Choice of Hybrid Company car or Car allowance + 5% Pension

LOCATION

Home based, covering the whole of the UK & Ireland, with trips to Europe for product tests and trials as well as training for 1 week at a time but 4 to 6 times a year.
You will balance working from home with client visits alone & alongside the sales team.
You can live anywhere in the UK although a more central location is preferred.

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS

• Manchester
• Leeds
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• Milton Keynes
• Peterborough
• Oxford

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a technical support role supporting clients and the company's sales team with a mix of working from home and client visits alone and alongside the sales team.
1 week Trips to Europe for training and for product test & trials 4 to 6 times a year will be required.
Intensive product training in Europe will be provided in the 1st 3 months of your employment.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• You will be an experienced Bakery Manager or Supervisor with experience of product development or continuous improvement
• You will ideally have experience with automated pastry lines
• You will have relevant bakery or pastry chef qualifications.
• You will have excellent communications and comfortable working directly with clients.

THE COMPANY

A well established and successful UK sales & service office for a market leading European manufacturer of bakery machinery, specifically dough processing, sheeting, shaping and cutting systems supplied to the bakery market for both bread & pastries and both larger commercial and smaller artisan/craft bakeries.
A very good client I have worked with over 10 years.

REF: MPH18636