Operational Excellence Manager

Amsterdam Printing; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Operational Excellence Manager in London, where you will lead performance improvement projects and drive continuous enhancements in a dynamic environment. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the manufacturing strategy while collaborating with diverse teams. You'll be supported in your career development and rewarded for your contributions. With a strong focus on operational excellence, you will thrive in a culture that values innovation and teamwork. If you're passionate about operational improvement and enjoy challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday

10% short-term bonus

Private medical insurance

Life Insurance

Staff Shop

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

MyBargains Discount Platform

Personal Accident Insurance

Free Independent Mortgage Advice

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in operational roles with financial analysis experience.
• Skilled in driving continuous improvement and effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Support performance improvement projects aligned with manufacturing strategy.
• Provide financial governance and ensure timely project delivery.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Influential Communication

Continuous Improvement

Presentation Skills

Relationship Building

Lean / CI / OPEX Tools

Job description

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Operational Excellence Manager

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Salary: Competitive

Location: Meals London - Abbeydale

Working Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 8.30am - 5pm (site based)

Benefits: Excellent rewards package including - 25 days holiday, 10% short-term bonus, private medical insurance, Life Insurance

Why join us?

We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further, and show resilience. As a valued Operational Excellence Manager, we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

What we do

In London, Bakkavor Meals employs over 2,400 people across three sites and a distribution centre in the Park Royal area. These sites specialise in making chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments, and are part of Bakkavor's Meals sector which has eight factories in total in the UK.

About the role

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an Operational Excellence Manager at our Abbeydale Meals site.

In this challenging and varied role, as a member of the Operational Excellence team, you'll be supporting projects that are in line with the manufacturing strategy and are imperative to the group objectives/success. Alongside designing and deploying methodologies and processes to support the delivery of performance improvement projects in line with the manufacturing strategy.

You will provide financial governance of project delivery costs and ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget.

About you

With a proven track record in an operational role you'll:

1. Have experience of financial analysis,
2. Be an influential communicator, who thrives on challenges,
3. Be passionate about identifying and driving continuous improvement and work in partnership with our manufacturing and site teams,
4. Be skilled at presentation, relationship building, influencing and facilitation,
5. Have experience leading a Continuous Improvement strategy.
6. Have in-depth knowledge of multiple Lean / CI / OPEX tools and methodologies.

What you'll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

1. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
2. Short Term Bonus Scheme
3. 25 days holiday
4. Staff Shop
5. Stakeholder Pension Scheme
6. MyBargains Discount Platform
7. Personal Accident Insurance
8. Free Independent Mortgage Advice
9. Employee Assistance Programme
10. A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
11. Discounted tutoring for children
12. Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
13. Private Medical Insurance
14. Free Carparking

Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

Find out more and apply.

Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

Category: Manufacturing

Location:
London, GB, HA0 1TW

Date: 11 Dec 2024

Req ID: 22400