Performance and Improvement Manager

At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly

You’re responsibilities;.

As the Performance and Improvement Manager, you will act as a specialist and influencer, driving sustainable performance improvements in liquid food processing. By using data-driven insights, you will identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve quality, and strengthen process capability.

Success in this role depends on your ability to influence colleagues across operations and engineering through analysis, insight, and best practice. You will challenge current ways of working, facilitate root cause problem-solving, and support teams in embedding improvements that deliver measurable results for the business.

• Proven experience of successful leadership within multifunctional FMCG business environment
• Multi-Site Experience Preferable
• Proven expertise in development and delivery of capital engineering investments in process and packaging plant
• Supplier Relationship Management experience preferred
•  Short shelf life / high care / dairy category experience preferred

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. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker.

You'll also receive the following:

• Competitive holiday allowance
• 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 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.