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Who are we ? We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ......-And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge). FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company. We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Ilse of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset. We also have offices for our supporting services in St Albans, Liverpool and Moreton. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing employees across all our locations. We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the number two biscuit manufacturer worldwide. We are proud to be part of the Ferrero enlarged family: such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of 12.7 billion (2020-21). Along with our fantastic brand portfolio, we also have long-term agreements to manufacture several sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Jacobs, and LU branded products. In addition, we are proud to be a strategic partner for many retailer-branded products. Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work with when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each whilst meeting our business goals. And don't forget... work hard but play harder! What does your typical day look like? The initial stage of the biscuit production which is pivotal. An environment which can be very physical very team orientated and clear communication. This role requires ability to work on your own initiative and follow processes. Starting with rota sheet which tells allocates you to a particular line/plant. Then checking the recipe sheet and ensure that the mixing machine is appropriately aligned to the settings ie weight amount of individual mixes. 3 component parts to this environment. Mixer Working from a menu/recipe sheet to ensure that the mixer is appropriately set. This machine determines the order and amount of the ingredients. Doing quality control checks to determine the consistency colour etc of the mix. Recipes will also have "Add Ons" These are chemical ingredients which are added manually by the mixer ie soda salt etc. The chemical mixture is prepared separately by the Chemical Maker and are brought over to the Mixer. Chemical Mixer Working with a variety of chemical ingredients following instructions making this mix and bringing it to the mixer. Manual role following guidelines and using shovels to insert mix and using weighing machine to quantify correct receipt portions. Servicer Gets the bulk ingredients from the warehouse to the mixing and storage facility. Requires use of FL (although some one can do this for you) using pallet trucks. Very physical, checking stock requirements. What are the key ingredients needed for the role? Analytical Skills. Experience of Promtek weighing system systems/Excel (Training to be provided) Able to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines. Ability to prioritise tasks. To have completed NVO 1, NVQ2. Basic Food Safety, Help Stop Accidents, Behavioural Safety. To be able to drive a FLT, power truck and bowl mover (Training to be provided) Self-Motivated and the ability to train other employees. Flexible working within the Mixing room team. Basic understanding of ingredient preparation, weighing and mixing. Able to work in a small team. If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below. #LI-DNP
Batley General Operative (Night Shift) Who are we ? We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ......-And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge). FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company. We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Ilse of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset. We also have offices for our supporting services in St Albans, Liverpool and Moreton. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing employees across all our locations. We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the number two biscuit manufacturer worldwide. We are proud to be part of the Ferrero enlarged family: such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of 12.7 billion (2020-21). Along with our fantastic brand portfolio, we also have long-term agreements to manufacture several sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Jacobs, and LU branded products. In addition, we are proud to be a strategic partner for many retailer-branded products. Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work with when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial, and supporting each whilst meeting our business goals. And don't forget... work hard but play harder! What does your typical day look like? You will rotate between packing, stacking and inspection. You will be responsible for picking and placing the biscuits at speed, packing the biscuits into boxes and stacking the boxes onto pallets. The role requires people to be able to work at a reasonable pace and to be able to easily read the date codes on packets and check the seal integrity. You will play a key role in ensuring the efficient and safe start up, operation and shutdown of process equipment, whilst producing great quality products to our customers in a safe manner to agreed recipes. What are the key ingredients needed for the role? Experience of working in a high- speed food manufacturing environment is preferable but not essential as full training will be provided. Ability to work as part of a team. Ability to work with limited supervision after training. Good standards of literacy and numeracy. Requirement for heavy lifting, pushing and pulling within site manual handling limits. If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below. #LI-DNP
Join an integral part of the NHS family, critical to sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales, as an ICT Category Lead. Joining NHS Supply Chain means you are part of the continued and committed contribution to supporting the NHS to deliver safe and excellent patient care, by ensuring the organisation delivers the products and services needed by the NHS, both now and in the future. The locations Nottingham or Leeds. Core role of the Category Lead As the Category Lead you will be managing the ICT Category Team, responsible for c £250M of spend, developing commercial and sourcing strategies to meet the operational/technical requirements of the ICT teams, covering areas such as System Integrators, Applications Development, Cyber, End User Compute, Networks & Infrastructure, SaaS/PaaS products, and IoT. The Category Leads will manage a specific portfolio of category strategies, delivering full category management for the area. They will have responsibility for the delivery of the category KPIs, driving savings and value along with growing market share and ensuring continuity of supply. This role with have line management responsibility for the Category Managers, Category Buyers and Procurement Assistants (where applicable) in the specific category area. The Category Leads will have accountability for building cross functional relationships with the wider organisation and externally with stakeholders, with the aim of identifying and implementing improvements in our ways of working that will create efficiencies for the organisation as well as improved value and service for our NHS customers. Day-to-day of the Category Lead: Category Management - Manage a category plan/program in line with the organisations' commercial strategyensuring realisation of synergies, like cost savings and risk-reduction, and optimisation of the category delivery,while reporting to senior colleagues. Horizon Scanning - Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate theirpotential impact on, or usefulness to, the organisation. Information and Business Advice - Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures, resolving complex orcontentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions. Stakeholder Engagement - Develop stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs, issues and concerns andreacting to these to support the communication of business information and decisions. Customer Needs Clarification - Set clear objectives for each category; develop and make presentations that are tailored to the known interests,needs, issues, and concerns of decision makers and influencers within the customer organisations; gather andanalyse relevant information; and gain agreement to a statement of customer requirements. Data Collection and Analysis - Use data from a wide range of sources to analyse key themes and identify possible impacts on the business. Leadership and Direction - Lead and communicate the local delivery plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan, and the broader organisation's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals. Performance Management - Lead, manage and report on team performance; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or team members and hold them accountable for achieving these, taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team and personal objectives. The successful Category Lead will be able to demonstrate: You will need to be able to demonstrate and evidence strong leadership capability as well as well-developed and tested category management skills. Assessment - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others onanalysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations. Verbal Communication - Applies comprehensive knowledge to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on usingclear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. Negotiation - Negotiates as the organisational authority and established expert to help the organisation by obtaining consensusbetween two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests. Action Planning - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others ondeveloping appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements. Policy and procedures - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others ondeveloping, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they matchorganizational strategies and objectives. Contract Management - Acts as the organisation's authorities and applies expertise to maximise performance of contracts. Salary & Benefits of Category Lead Salary: £59,925 - £70,500 Annual Bonus (stretch): 15% Car Allowance - £7000 Flexible Benefits Allowance: 4% Pension Contribution (ER): 12% Hybrid working available - 1 to 2 days in the office per week. To get in touch, please click on the apply button and send your CV through to Deborah Robbins and Joe Warne who are leading this multi-role recruitment campaign.