Food & Drink Manufacturing Recruitment Agency

Location: Bristol or London
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday

Overview: Ready to take ownership of business critical data and processes and make a genuine impact across a growing food manufacturing business?
We’re working with an established food manufacturer looking to appoint a Business Process & Master Data Manager into a newly created position within its Programme & Change function.

This is a broad, influential role combining master data, costing assurance, process improvement and business change, with the opportunity to make a real difference to how the business operates.

You’ll be responsible for improving the quality, ownership and use of master data across the business, helping teams work more efficiently, make better decisions and rely on accurate, consistent information.

Why this role?
This is not a role where you’ll simply maintain spreadsheets or administer data.
You’ll have the opportunity to influence how master data, costing and business processes are managed across the organisation, working with senior stakeholders, functional leaders, data owners, Finance, Food, IT and Data teams.

Around 40% of the role will focus on Food master data and costing assurance, including validating information, investigating discrepancies and understanding how product, recipe, ingredient and labour data impacts costing and operational decisions.
A further 40% will focus on master data strategy, governance and improvement, giving you ownership of standards, controls, data ownership and improvement roadmaps.

The remaining 20% will involve supporting projects and business change, ensuring that master data requirements, ownership and process impacts are properly considered when new systems, processes or ways of working are introduced.

You’ll report to the Programme & Change Manager but for yourself there are no direct reports, so this is a role where your impact will come through stakeholder management, expertise, challenge and influence, rather than traditional line management.

What will you be doing?
You’ll take ownership of a broad business process and master data remit, including:

• Managing and validating Food master data, ensuring information is accurate from the outset and flows correctly into costing, reporting and operational processes.
• Providing costing assurance and investigating discrepancies across P74 and Syspro.
• Developing a strong understanding of standard costing and labour models, identifying and explaining costing anomalies.
• Working with NPD, Finance and operational teams to investigate root causes and resolve recurring issues.
• Embedding clear data, costing and approval controls across Food and Innovation processes.
• Acting as the business subject matter expert for master data within the Innovation process.
• Identifying process weaknesses that lead to costing errors, delays, duplicated effort or unreliable reporting.

About the business
Our client is an established food manufacturing business with a complex operational environment where accurate product, ingredient, recipe, costing and operational data is critical to the way the business performs.

As the business continues to develop its processes, systems and ways of working, this newly created position will play an important role in strengthening the foundations around data quality, governance and process control.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders including the Finance Director, Head of Food, functional leaders, business data owners and administrators, as well as IT, Data and external Syspro specialists.

What are they looking for?
Essential

• Experience improving and embedding cross-functional business processes within a complex operational environment.
• Experience working with master data or business-critical information such as product, ingredient, recipe, costing, customer, supplier or operational data.
• Experience validating information, investigating discrepancies and improving controls at source.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior, operational and specialist teams.
• The ability to translate unclear business problems into practical requirements and improvement plans.
• Strong root-cause analysis skills and experience addressing recurring data or process issues.

Desirable

• Experience within food manufacturing, FMCG, retail supply chain, NPD, technical, quality, supply chain or commercial operations.
• Experience working in a regulated or audited environment where product, allergen, nutritional, packaging or customer-facing information needs to be tightly controlled.
• Exposure to ERP, MRP, PIM, PLM, workflow, reporting or integration projects.
• Experience in continuous improvement, Lean, business analysis, process mapping or project delivery.
• Experience establishing data governance, ownership models, governance forums or cross-functional improvement roadmaps.
• Understanding of Power BI, reporting datasets or data platforms from a business-user or requirements perspective.

What’s in it for you?

• £55,000 salary plus bonus & benefits.
• A newly created position with genuine scope to shape the role and its impact across the business.
• The opportunity to influence master data strategy, governance and business processes rather than simply manage existing systems.
• Broad exposure across Finance, Food, IT, Data, Innovation and wider operational functions.
• The opportunity to become a key subject matter expert for Food master data and costing.
• A role with significant autonomy and the opportunity to challenge existing ways of working.
• The chance to play a key role in business change and improvement projects.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the operational, technical, commercial and supply chain environments in which these roles sit.

If you’re a Business Process Manager, Master Data Manager, Business Analyst, Continuous Improvement professional or process-focused data specialist looking for a role where you can take genuine ownership and influence how a business operates, we’d love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref JO/TNT/3426, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944145 for a confidential discussion.
We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.

Location: Bristol or London
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday

Overview: Ready to take ownership of business critical data and processes and make a genuine impact across a growing food manufacturing business?
We’re working with an established food manufacturer looking to appoint a Business Process & Master Data Manager into a newly created position within its Programme & Change function.

This is a broad, influential role combining master data, costing assurance, process improvement and business change, with the opportunity to make a real difference to how the business operates.

You’ll be responsible for improving the quality, ownership and use of master data across the business, helping teams work more efficiently, make better decisions and rely on accurate, consistent information.

Why this role?
This is not a role where you’ll simply maintain spreadsheets or administer data.
You’ll have the opportunity to influence how master data, costing and business processes are managed across the organisation, working with senior stakeholders, functional leaders, data owners, Finance, Food, IT and Data teams.

Around 40% of the role will focus on Food master data and costing assurance, including validating information, investigating discrepancies and understanding how product, recipe, ingredient and labour data impacts costing and operational decisions.
A further 40% will focus on master data strategy, governance and improvement, giving you ownership of standards, controls, data ownership and improvement roadmaps.

The remaining 20% will involve supporting projects and business change, ensuring that master data requirements, ownership and process impacts are properly considered when new systems, processes or ways of working are introduced.

You’ll report to the Programme & Change Manager but for yourself there are no direct reports, so this is a role where your impact will come through stakeholder management, expertise, challenge and influence, rather than traditional line management.

What will you be doing?
You’ll take ownership of a broad business process and master data remit, including:

• Managing and validating Food master data, ensuring information is accurate from the outset and flows correctly into costing, reporting and operational processes.
• Providing costing assurance and investigating discrepancies across P74 and Syspro.
• Developing a strong understanding of standard costing and labour models, identifying and explaining costing anomalies.
• Working with NPD, Finance and operational teams to investigate root causes and resolve recurring issues.
• Embedding clear data, costing and approval controls across Food and Innovation processes.
• Acting as the business subject matter expert for master data within the Innovation process.
• Identifying process weaknesses that lead to costing errors, delays, duplicated effort or unreliable reporting.

About the business
Our client is an established food manufacturing business with a complex operational environment where accurate product, ingredient, recipe, costing and operational data is critical to the way the business performs.

As the business continues to develop its processes, systems and ways of working, this newly created position will play an important role in strengthening the foundations around data quality, governance and process control.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders including the Finance Director, Head of Food, functional leaders, business data owners and administrators, as well as IT, Data and external Syspro specialists.

What are they looking for?
Essential

• Experience improving and embedding cross-functional business processes within a complex operational environment.
• Experience working with master data or business-critical information such as product, ingredient, recipe, costing, customer, supplier or operational data.
• Experience validating information, investigating discrepancies and improving controls at source.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior, operational and specialist teams.
• The ability to translate unclear business problems into practical requirements and improvement plans.
• Strong root-cause analysis skills and experience addressing recurring data or process issues.

Desirable

• Experience within food manufacturing, FMCG, retail supply chain, NPD, technical, quality, supply chain or commercial operations.
• Experience working in a regulated or audited environment where product, allergen, nutritional, packaging or customer-facing information needs to be tightly controlled.
• Exposure to ERP, MRP, PIM, PLM, workflow, reporting or integration projects.
• Experience in continuous improvement, Lean, business analysis, process mapping or project delivery.
• Experience establishing data governance, ownership models, governance forums or cross-functional improvement roadmaps.
• Understanding of Power BI, reporting datasets or data platforms from a business-user or requirements perspective.

What’s in it for you?

• £55,000 salary plus bonus & benefits.
• A newly created position with genuine scope to shape the role and its impact across the business.
• The opportunity to influence master data strategy, governance and business processes rather than simply manage existing systems.
• Broad exposure across Finance, Food, IT, Data, Innovation and wider operational functions.
• The opportunity to become a key subject matter expert for Food master data and costing.
• A role with significant autonomy and the opportunity to challenge existing ways of working.
• The chance to play a key role in business change and improvement projects.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the operational, technical, commercial and supply chain environments in which these roles sit.

If you’re a Business Process Manager, Master Data Manager, Business Analyst, Continuous Improvement professional or process-focused data specialist looking for a role where you can take genuine ownership and influence how a business operates, we’d love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref JO/TNT/3426, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944145 for a confidential discussion.
We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: London
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday
Overview: Passionate about food and want to play a key role in turning creative concepts into commercially viable products?
We’re working with a category leading food business looking to appoint a Concept Technologist to join its NPD team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a food focused technologist to work closely with Development Chefs and NPD Manager, helping take new food concepts from the initial brief through development, feasibility and ultimately into process handover.

You’ll sit at the heart of the development process, acting as the link between the creative side of food development and the wider technical, commercial and operational teams.

It’s a varied role combining food development, costing, raw material sourcing, product feasibility, process understanding and stakeholder management, giving you exposure to the full journey of bringing new food to life.

Why this role?
This isn’t a role where you’ll be purely focused on paperwork or technical compliance.

You’ll be working closely with chefs to help turn creative ideas into products that are great tasting, commercially viable and capable of being produced successfully at scale.

You’ll play an important role in making sure concepts are properly costed, recipes and processes are accurately set up, ingredients are sourced appropriately and production implications are considered early in the development process.

You’ll also become a key point of contact between Development Chefs, NPD/EPD, Procurement, Technical, Operations and Supply Chain, giving you visibility across the wider business and the opportunity to influence how new products move through development.

For someone who genuinely loves food and wants to build their career within new product development, it offers the chance to work alongside experienced chefs while developing a much broader understanding of the commercial and operational side of food development.

What will you be doing?
You’ll support the NPD and EPD Managers across the new food development process, including:

• Working closely with Development Chefs to ensure recipes are accurately set up and appropriately reflected within P74.
• Supporting accurate process set up, packaging understanding, labour assumptions and theoretical concept data.
• Working with site teams to validate labour models and understand production requirements.
• Ensuring new food is developed in line with brand values and nutritional guidelines.
• Preparing and delivering professional food presentations covering recipes, ingredients, costs, brand values, nutritionals and cooking methods.
• Completing concept development documentation accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Developing clear ingredient briefs and ensuring sourcing activity remains aligned with project critical paths.

About the business
Our client is an established food manufacturer with a strong focus on developing high-quality, commercially successful food products.

The NPD team brings together chefs, technologists and wider business functions to develop new concepts from the earliest stages through to operational handover.

This role sits at the centre of that process, working across Food Development, Procurement, Technical, Operations and Supply Chain to make sure creative ideas can ultimately become commercially and operationally viable products.

It’s an opportunity to join a collaborative development environment where food quality, creativity and commercial thinking all need to come together.

What are they looking for?
Essential

• A genuine passion for food, ingredients and new product development.
• Experience working within either NPD or EPD programmes.
• A Food Technology, Food Science or similar degree would be advantageous.
• Experience working with recipes, ingredients, costing or food development processes.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to understand and work with COGS and pricing.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple development activities simultaneously.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with chefs, technical specialists, procurement, supply chain and operational teams.

Desirable

• Experience within chilled food manufacturing, particularly chilled meals.
• Experience working alongside Development Chefs or within a chef led NPD environment.
• Experience with P74 or similar product development / costing systems.
• Experience with raw material sourcing and ingredient specifications.
• Experience with shelf-life testing, benchmarking and product tastings.
• Understanding of packaging, nutritional and labelling considerations.
• Experience supporting process improvement or implementing new ways of working.

What’s in it for you?

• £40,000 salary plus bonus & benefits.
• Exposure to the full new food development process, from concept brief through to process handover.
• The opportunity to develop your commercial understanding alongside your food and technical expertise.
• Genuine involvement in bringing new food concepts to life rather than simply supporting one part of the process.
• A role where your ideas, attention to detail and understanding of food can directly influence the success of new products.
• Scope to take ownership of projects and develop your experience within a growing food development environment.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the development, culinary, technical, commercial and manufacturing landscape you're working in.

If you’re a Concept Technologist, NPD Technologist, Development Technologist, Food Technologist or food-focused NPD professional looking for a role where you can work closely with chefs and gain broader exposure across the product development process, we’d love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref JO/TNT/3424, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944145 for a confidential discussion.

We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: London
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday

Overview: Passionate about food and want to play a hands on role in turning new product concepts into successful, repeatable production?
We’re working with a well trusted client food manufacturer looking to appoint a Process Technologist to join its NPD team.

This role is hands on and supports the development journey from initial concept through production trials, launch and post-launch, making sure new food can be produced consistently, efficiently and to the required quality standards.

Whilst having a strong presence within the kitchen, a major part of the role will be leading production trials - making sure everyone is aligned, objectives are clear, trials are properly planned and the resulting product meets the agreed quality and sign-off standards.

Why this role?
This is much more than a documentation or NPD support position.
You’ll lead production trials, organise validations, run tastings and provide clear recommendations following each trial. You’ll then continue supporting products through launch and into post-launch, helping production and technical teams maintain the required quality.

There’s also a strong problem-solving element to the role. When production or process issues arise, you’ll be involved in understanding what has happened, identifying root causes and helping implement practical solutions.

For someone who enjoys being close to food, people and manufacturing, it offers the opportunity to develop broad experience across NPD, process technology, food quality, manufacturing trials and continuous improvement.

What will you be doing?

You’ll support the NPD/EPD & Process Manager throughout the development process, including:

• Leading production trials and ensuring all stakeholders are aligned throughout each stage of the project.
• Planning trials against agreed critical paths and working closely with Planning to ensure the required resources and timings are in place.
• Leading pre and post trial meetings and ensuring effective cross-functional engagement.
• Setting clear objectives for each trial and communicating recommendations, outcomes and next steps.
• Organising and completing product validations including organoleptic, cooking, freezer and transit testing.
• Ensuring product costings are accurate and updated on P74 throughout development.

About the business
Our client is an established food business with a strong focus on developing and producing high-quality food products.

The NPD team works across chefs, technologists and wider business functions to take new concepts from development through to successful operational launch.

This Process Technologist role is a key part of that journey, ensuring that new products are not only great from a food perspective, but can also be validated, produced consistently and delivered successfully within the manufacturing environment.

The role also gives you the opportunity to work with a broad range of teams including Head of Food, Development Chefs, Technical, Production, Procurement and Supply Chain.


What are they looking for?
Essential

• Experience working within either NPD or EPD programmes.
• Previous experience within food manufacturing.
• Experience within chilled meals would be advantageous.
• HACCP Level 2.
• Food Technology, Food Science or a similar degree.
• Experience supporting or leading production trials.
• Strong understanding of food quality and manufacturing processes.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis.
• Strong attention to detail and a highly accurate approach to documentation and systems.

Desirable

• Experience taking products from NPD through production trials and into launch.
• Experience with shelf life, cooking, freezer or transit validations.
• Experience with P74 and/or Syspro.
• Having previously worked with food quality audits and BRC requirements.
• Experience in process improvement or continuous improvement.
• Experience investigating material variance, process issues or production quality problems.
• Experience delivering training to production or technical teams.

What’s in it for you?

• £35,000 salary plus bonus & benefits.
• A hands-on role covering the full journey from concept through trials, launch and post-launch.
• Significant exposure to food manufacturing, process technology, quality and NPD.
• The opportunity to lead production trials and directly influence how new products are manufactured.
• A varied role combining food development with problem solving, process improvement and operational support.
• The opportunity to develop your project management and stakeholder management skills.
• The chance to work on new food products and see your work progress from development kitchen through to production.
• A role where you can make a visible contribution to food quality and manufacturing performance.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the development, culinary, technical, quality and manufacturing landscape you're working in.

If you’re a Process Technologist, NPD Technologist, Food Technologist, Development Technologist or food manufacturing professional looking for a hands-on role where you can work across product trials, manufacturing and continuous improvement, we’d love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref JO/TNT/3425, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944145 for a confidential discussion.

We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: West Yorkshire
Overview: Ready to take ownership of hygiene and put your own stamp on how things are done?
We’re working with an established food manufacturer looking to appoint a Hygiene Supervisor to take responsibility for hygiene standards, systems and processes across its manufacturing operation.

This is more than simply making sure cleaning schedules are completed.

You’ll have the opportunity to review how hygiene currently operates, identify where improvements can be made and introduce better ways of working – while leading and developing the hygiene team around you.

If you’re looking for a role where you can take genuine ownership rather than simply follow an established routine, this could be a great next step.

Why this role?
The business wants someone who can become its go-to person for hygiene.

You’ll be trusted to look at the current operation with a fresh pair of eyes, from cleaning procedures and schedules through to chemicals, equipment, training and documentation, and identify opportunities to strengthen standards and improve efficiency.

You’ll work closely with the Technical team but have responsibility for driving hygiene day-to-day, giving you the autonomy to make recommendations and turn improvements into practical changes on the factory floor.

It could suit an established Hygiene Supervisor, but equally someone ready to take the next step and take greater ownership of a hygiene function.

What will you be doing?
You’ll take ownership of a broad production remit, including:

• Leading the day-to-day hygiene operation and ensuring consistently high standards across the site.
• Supervising, supporting and developing the hygiene team.
• Managing and reviewing cleaning schedules, procedures and hygiene standards.
• Ensuring cleaning activities are completed effectively, safely and to the required standard.
• Reviewing existing hygiene processes and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Assessing the effectiveness of cleaning chemicals, equipment and methods and recommending changes where appropriate.
• Ensuring chemicals are correctly controlled, stored and used in line with COSHH requirements.
• Developing and maintaining hygiene procedures, records and documentation.
• Training employees in appropriate cleaning methods, chemical use and hygiene procedures.
• Monitoring hygiene performance and ensuring any issues or non-conformances are addressed.
• Supporting environmental monitoring, audits and corrective actions where required.
• Working closely with Technical, Production and other departments to maintain strong site standards.
• Helping build a proactive hygiene culture rather than simply reacting when issues arise.

About the business
Our client is an established food manufacturer supplying products to customers across the UK food industry.

The business operates from a dedicated manufacturing site in West Yorkshire and places a strong emphasis on quality, food safety and maintaining high manufacturing standards.

They are now looking to strengthen their hygiene function by bringing in someone who can take greater ownership of the area and continue developing the systems and standards already in place.

It’s an opportunity to join an established business while still having the freedom to influence how your own function operates.

What are they looking for?
Essential

• Previous experience within hygiene in a food manufacturing environment.
• Experience operating at Hygiene Supervisor, Hygiene Team Leader, Hygiene Lead level or similar.
• A strong practical understanding of factory cleaning and hygiene requirements.
• Knowledge of cleaning chemicals, chemical control and COSHH.
• Experience working with cleaning schedules, procedures and hygiene documentation.
• Understanding of food safety, GMP and hygiene standards within food manufacturing.
• Confidence leading, training and developing others.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify where standards or processes could be improved.
• A proactive, hands-on approach and willingness to take ownership rather than wait for direction.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work closely with Production and Technical teams.

What’s in it for you?

• £35,000 salary
• The opportunity to become the site’s key point of contact for hygiene.
• Genuine autonomy to review existing processes and introduce improvements.
• The freedom to assess cleaning methods, chemicals and equipment rather than simply inherit a fixed way of working.
• The opportunity to develop your leadership experience and build capability within the hygiene team.
• Broad exposure across Technical, Production, food safety and site operations.
• A position where the improvements you introduce can have a visible impact on site standards and performance.
• The opportunity to join an established food manufacturer offering stability alongside the scope to make the role your own.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the production, technical, quality and operational landscape you're working in.

If you're a Hygiene Supervisor looking for greater ownership, a Hygiene Team Leader ready for your next step, or come from a Quality/Technical background with strong hands-on hygiene experience, we'd love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref DW/TNT/3405, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944183 for a confidential discussion.

We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: East Yorkshire
Shift Pattern: Monday to Thursday (40 hours)
Overview: Ready to take ownership of a fast-paced manufacturing operation and make a genuine impact on the factory floor?
We’re working with an established food manufacturer looking to appoint a Manufacturing Manager into a newly created position within its operations team.

This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for the day-to-day performance of a busy, short-shelf-life manufacturing operation, leading through a team of experienced Section and Team Leaders.

With new business creating further growth across the site, they need someone who can bring structure, accountability and strong operational leadership while continuing to develop the people and processes around them.

Why this role?
This isn’t a role where you’ll spend your week sitting behind a desk.

You’ll be highly visible across the factory floor, working closely with your teams to ensure the production plan is delivered safely, efficiently and to the required quality standards.

The role has been created to strengthen the operational structure as the business grows, giving you the opportunity to take real ownership and influence how the factory performs.

You’ll have experienced people around you, but they’re looking for someone who can challenge where needed, develop the leadership team and continually look for ways to improve performance.

And with a Monday to Thursday working week, it offers something increasingly difficult to find within food manufacturing.

What will you be doing?
You’ll take ownership of a broad production remit, including:

• Leading the day-to-day manufacturing operation and ensuring the production plan is achieved.
• Managing and developing a team of Section and Team Leaders across the operation.
• Maintaining a strong presence on the factory floor, supporting teams and resolving operational issues as they arise.
• Driving performance across throughput, labour efficiency, waste and productivity.
• Ensuring high standards of food safety, GMP, health & safety and quality are maintained.
• Reviewing production performance and identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
• Ensuring labour and resources are effectively deployed against production requirements.
• Building accountability and consistency across the operational leadership team.
• Coaching and developing Team and Section Leaders to strengthen capability across the factory.
• Working closely with Technical, Planning, Engineering, Despatch and wider Operations teams.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and helping embed a culture of ongoing operational improvement.
• Responding quickly to changing production requirements within a fast-paced, short-shelf-life environment.

About the business
Our client is an established UK food manufacturer with a significant production operation and a strong reputation within its market.

The site employs approximately 180 people, with more than 120 working across factory operations, and continued commercial growth is creating further opportunities across the business.

This Manufacturing Manager position is a newly created role, providing additional operational leadership and helping the site successfully manage its next stage of growth.

It’s an opportunity to join a close-knit manufacturing business where you can be visible, have genuine influence and see the impact of the decisions you make.

What are they looking for?
Essential

• Previous experience in a Manufacturing Manager, Production Manager, Operations Manager, Production Shift Manager or similar operational leadership position.
• Strong experience within fresh or short-shelf-life food manufacturing.
• Proven experience leading production teams through Team Leaders, Section Leaders or Supervisors.
• A hands-on leadership style and willingness to spend significant time on the factory floor.
• Strong understanding of production planning, labour, throughput, efficiency and waste.
• Good knowledge of food safety, GMP and health & safety within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing performance and developing operational teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions in a fast-moving environment.
• A continuous improvement mindset and the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with Technical, Engineering, Planning and other departments.

What’s in it for you?

• £40,000 - £50,000 salary
• Monday to Thursday working week, offering a genuine three-day weekend.
• A senior operational position with the freedom to make decisions and implement your own ideas.
• The opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership team and have a real voice in how the operation develops.
• Scope to strengthen your experience across people leadership, operational performance and continuous improvement.
• The opportunity to join at an important stage for the business, with new customer wins and increased production volumes creating further opportunities.
• A role where good performance and improvements are visible and recognised, rather than getting lost within a large corporate structure.

Why speak to True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the production, technical, quality and operational landscape you're working in.

If you're a Manufacturing Manager looking for greater ownership, or a strong Production Manager, Operations Manager or Production Shift Manager ready for your next step, we'd love to have a confidential conversation.

Interested?
If you have the desired experience, please send your CV quoting ref DW/TNT/3419, or call 0161 399 1575 / 07830 944183 for a confidential discussion.

We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.
 

Location: Republic of Ireland
The opportunity: An excellent opportunity for an experienced technical leader to take strategic ownership of food safety, quality and compliance across a substantial food manufacturing operation.

Reporting to the Food Safety & Quality Director, you'll work closely with senior leadership and site teams to strengthen standards, drive continuous improvement and develop a strong culture of food safety and quality.
This is a role where you can genuinely influence the operation rather than simply maintain existing systems.

The role
You'll lead the Food Safety & Quality agenda across the retail operation, managing and developing a small FSQ team and working closely with Operations, NPD, Engineering and other senior stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the food safety and quality strategy across the operation.

• Ensuring compliance with HACCP, BRC/GFSI, GMP, legislation and customer standards.

• Leading audits and relationships with customers, regulators and other external stakeholders.

• Driving continuous improvement, risk management and effective root cause analysis.

• Developing and coaching the FSQ team and building future capability.

• Working with Operations and NPD to ensure food safety and quality requirements are embedded across the business.

• Developing food safety performance measures and driving accountability across the site.

• Supporting business continuity and operational risk management.

• Occasional travel will be required.

What we're looking for
Essential

• Senior Food Safety & Quality experience within food manufacturing.

• Strong knowledge of HACCP, BRC/GFSI, GMP and food safety legislation.

• Experience working with retail customers and managing customer/audit requirements.

• Proven experience leading FSQ teams and driving continuous improvement.

• Strong risk management, RCA and corrective action experience.

• Confident working with senior stakeholders and influencing operational teams.

Desirable

• Lead Auditor qualification.

• Food Science, Food Technology or related qualification.

• Quality or Continuous Improvement qualification.

• What's in it for you?

• A genuine senior leadership position with significant influence.

• Opportunity to shape the Food Safety & Quality strategy.

• Direct exposure to senior leadership and key customers.

• Scope to develop and coach an FSQ team.

• The opportunity to make meaningful improvements across a substantial food manufacturing operation.

Why True North Talent?
We're specialists in food and drink manufacturing recruitment, so we understand the roles, businesses and challenges within the sector.

Interested?
If you're an experienced Food Safety & Quality leader and this sounds like the kind of opportunity you're looking for, we'd love to have a confidential conversation about the role and the business behind it.  Please send your CV quoting re CH/TNT/3421 or call 0161 399 1575 / 07899 686690 for a confidential discussion.

We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.
We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK. The company cannot offer sponsorship. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.