Team Manager - Blagdon

Yeo Valley Organic; Paignton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension (non-contributory)

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work

Product discounts

Partner rates

Annual bonus

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Yeo Valley Organic is seeking a Key Member of the Department Leadership Team to identify and drive performance capability improvements within your area, through engagement and development of the Operational Team and the Ways of Working, aligned to our strategic plans. Working hours will be 4 days on, 4 days off.

You will embed safety, environmental management systems, lead a culture reflecting the Yeo Valley values, and develop quality and food safety practices to exceed customer standards.

Qualifications

• Essential: Proven experience of applied knowledge of High Performing Workplace / TPM / Lean within large complex FMCG operations.
• Essential: Proven experience managing teams.
• Essential: Proven experience of leading Continuous Improvement teams.
• Desirable: Short shelf life / high care / dairy category experience preferred.
• Desirable: Proven experience as a successful cultural change agent.

Responsibilities

• Identify, lead and drive performance capability improvements within your area of responsibility through the Engagement and Development of your Operational Team and the Ways of Working supporting the strategic plans.
• Embed the physical and cultural safety and environmental management systems within your team, ensuring delivery of standards and metrics.
• Lead and nurture the business and site culture within your team and role model Yeo Valley values and Leadership principles.
• Develop quality and food safety culture within your team, ensuring compliance to Yeo Valley Manufacturing standards and delivery of best in class product quality.

Skills

High Performing Workplace / TPM / Lean

Team leadership

Continuous Improvement leadership

Job description

What will I be doing?

As a Key Member of the Department Leadership Team, you will identify, lead and drive performance capability improvements within your area of responsibility through the Engagement and Development of your Operational Team and the Ways of Working supporting the strategic plans. Working hours will be 4 days on & 4 days off.

• Develop and implement a plan for your team that delivers an improvement to your overall team capability, ensuring that it is in support our operational design framework and is fit for the future.
• Embed the physical and cultural safety and environmental management systems within your team. Ensuring successful delivery of the standards, performance metrics and underpinning values.
• Lead and nurture the business and site culture within your team and through the role modelling of the Yeo Valley values and Leadership principles demonstrate a personal and leadership commitment to “Our Yeo Valley”.
• Develop the quality and food safety culture within your team, ensuring compliance to the Yeo Valley Manufacturing standards and enabling your team to deliver best in class product quality which exceed customer quality standards.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Proven experience of applied knowledge of High Performing Workplace / TPM / Lean within large complex FMCG operations
• Proven experience managing teams
• Proven experience of leading Continuous Improvement teams

Desirable

• Short shelf life / high care / dairy category experience preferred
• Proven experience as a successful cultural change agent

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• competitive holiday allowance
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidized Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.