Central Catering Manager

Aligned to our purpose of Nurture and Nourish People and Planet, we have a new role available for a Central Catering Manager to develop and rollout a strategy for providing a sustainable, nourishing and reasonably priced food offering for our diverse population of co-owners.

You will be experienced in managing multi-site catering offerings and be passionate about embedding our companies purpose and values around locally grown, nourishing food in everything you deliver.

Great stakeholder management skills, communication skills and the ability to influence on multiple levels is essential to the success of this role.

The role will be based at our Highbridge office, however travel to our other locations is essential.

Key responsibilities include:

• Create our Catering Strategy defining our food proposition by connecting the food we serve with our Purpose, Food Policy and Brand values, showcasing Yeo Valley products and organic / regenerative farming practices

• Ensure collaborative working across the sites and wherever possible a consistency in our catering offer. Lead, coach and develop the Catering team and structure to enable high performance, succession planning and compliance to auditing practices

• Collaborating with Procurement build strong partnerships with key suppliers to deliver our Catering strategy at the best possible cost and service. Ensuring accurate, reliable, and timely reporting is in place to measure delivery of our impact measures and budget

• Actively pursue the reduction in waste of any food items, building strong community partnerships (e.g. Fareshare, Too Good to Go etc)

• Successful creation and delivery of change management through great communication plans including engagement of the wider business and key stakeholders 

Essential:

• Strategic partnership experience
• Experience in multisite catering management
• Strong negotiation skills and commercially astute
• Advanced Food hygiene qualifications

Desirable:

• Good academic level of education, to degree level
• Experience of working in a Purpose lead / Co-owned business
• Experience of working in a FMCG environment
• Experience of change management / transformational work

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:

• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised 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. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

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.