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Why Greencore? We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. Role Purpose: To have full responsibility for a defined sourcing area across the whole business, ensuring that performance delivers against procurement and functional plans, targets, and strategies Key Accountabilities: Value preservation - lead on all procurement activity for the material group to ensure that the total cost of the portfolio is managed efficiently and effectively, with rigorous attention to detail on PV, financial forecasting, rebates, cash management, and Value creation - third party collaboration to unlock value Rigorous approach to negotiation also supporting others on the process Formulate and implement a material sourcing strategy to ensure that business strategies and performance targets are achieved and ensure cross functional agreement with plan. Specific focus on business risk, sustainability and LCCS v near shoring. Influence on specification, origin and specification choices. Formulate and implement supplier identification, selection and performance management processes Stakeholder engagement with commercial teams, including regular market updates/commentary, and support of inflation recovery in your area of expertise, including direct dialogue with customer where necessary. High level of direct engagement with customers and their relevant material buyers Stakeholder engagement with Operational teams (including technical and sustainability) to ensure correct levels of quality and Inbound Service levels are achieved. Develop good working relationships with General Manager and supply chain teams. Have sound understanding of how key sites operate, and who key colleagues are Ensure appropriate governance and risk management. High level of supplier and market engagement to identify and mitigate emerging risks Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset Support the achievement of our inclusion and diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed Knowledge, Skills and Experience: Experience and knowledge of procurement systems and processes, ideally gained in a manufacturing environment Experience of advanced negotiation capability and skill Understanding and experience of market, suppliers and materials Has experience working with computer programmes and Microsoft Office proficient Experience and understanding of all aspects of the end-to-end supply chain processes A practised understanding of value enablers, creation and preservation Experience working and communicating with a diverse group of people, applying excellent stakeholder engagement skills
Why Greencore? We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. We are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to manage a team of 6 Financial Accountants in the Shared Service Centre, to ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial statements, as well as establishing and maintaining effective control environments Role Purpose: To manage a team of 6 Financial Accountants in the Shared Service Centre, to ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial statements, as well as establishing and maintaining effective control environments Key Accountabilities: Manage a team of Financial and Assistant Financial Accountants to provide accurate and timely consolidated reporting of manufacturing sites and Group entities serviced by the Financial Shared Service Centre, ensuring accounts are produced in line with relevant accounting standards and group policy Oversee production of a standardised set of key reports to highlight key variances to stakeholders, for example, Profit and Loss reports Ensure team members have robust GWG goals and development plans Establish and maintain an internal controls environment and ensure outputs required for external audit are comprehensive and delivered on time Ensure all government returns are accurate and submitted on time with clear, auditable documentation. Also compile annual corporation tax computation for submission to Group Tax function Maintain accurate process notes for all key tasks and ensure appropriate cross team cover Approve key forecast and budget inputs ensuring forecasts are loaded into BPC system as provided Manage the Financial Accountants to maintain and reconcile Fixed Asset registers. Monitor capital spend against budget / forecast to ensure spend is within agreed limits and exceptions are escalated Knowledge, Skills and Experience Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) Finance system management and internal control Knowledge of accounting standards Effective communication skills within team and wider business Knowledge of corporation tax and VAT accounting rules Intermediate Excel skills Team management experience preferable