Location
Newton Abbot
Department
Production
Advertising Salary
Competitive based on experience
Advert Closing Date
28 Feb 2025

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we’re passionate about nurturing and nourishing people and the planet by making great food the right way, forever. Our Newton Abbot site is at the forefront of our strategy to produce single-serve desserts and ice cream under both the Yeo Valley brand and own-label offerings. As a key player in our operations, the Newton Abbot site is a hub of innovation, continuously developing new products, optimising manufacturing capabilities, and driving growth.


We are looking for an inspirational Site Leader to join our team at the Newton Abbot site. This is a pivotal role where you will lead the site team in delivering our local vision of "Creating moments of joy." You will be accountable for creating a culture of  developing and executing the site strategy within an 18-month rolling horizon, ensuring operational excellence, and driving continuous improvement.

 

Key Responsibilities include:

 
  • Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership to a team of circa 270 employees, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and high performance.

  • Operational Excellence: Optimise manufacturing performance, ensuring the site delivers the best product, service, and cost proposition in our categories.

  • Strategic Development: Develop and execute the site strategy, aligning with Yeo Valley’s long-term strategic aims, including sustainability, innovation, and profitability.

  • Employee Engagement: Enable co-owners to develop and grow, creating an environment where everyone feels valued, motivated, and empowered to drive initiatives.

  • Sustainability: Champion sustainable practices, ensuring the site operates in an environmentally responsible manner, minimising waste and protecting natural resources.

  • Health & Safety: Maintain the highest standards of health, safety, and food safety across the site.

 

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:

  • Proven experience of successful leadership within large complex FMCG operations
  • Proven experience as a successful cultural change agent
  • Short shelf life / high care / dairy category experience preferred
Qualifications:
  • Degree qualified in relevant discipline preferred
  • Post graduate management qualification preferred
  • Recognised leadership qualification in Health and Safety preferred

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:

  • 33 days’ holiday, including bank holidays
  • non-contributory pension scheme
  • annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
  • life cover
  • healthcare cash back plan
  • Hybrid working company guidelines -  Whilst you will be expected to work some days per week in our office, we also support remote working for our co-owners .
  • cycle to work scheme
  • subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
  • preferential rates with our partners
  • learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow, We would consider supporting an apprenticeship candidate for this role.

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.



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