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Operational Excellence Manager

We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together.

Salary- Competitive

Location - Meals London - Abbeydale

Tuesday - Saturday 8.30am - 5pm ( site based)

Excellent rewards package including - 25 days holiday, 10% short-term bonus, private medical insurance, Life Insurance

Why join us?

We're proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you'll be supported to work hard, push further, and show resilience. As a valued Operational Excellence Manager we'll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

Who are Bakkavor:

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an Operational Excellence Manager at our Abbeydale Meals site.

In London, Bakkavor Meals employs over 2,400 people across three sites and a distribution centre in the Park Royal area. These sites specialise in making chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments, and are part of Bakkavor's Meals sector which has eight factories in total in the UK.

About the role.

In this challenging and varied role, as a member of the Operational Excellence team you'll be supporting projects that are in line with the manufacturing strategy and are imperative to the group objectives / success. Alongside designing and deploying methodologies and processes to support the delivery of performance improvement projects in line with the manufacturing strategy.

You will provide financial governance of project delivery costs ensure project are delivered on time and to budget.

About you.

With a proven track record in an operational role you'll:
Have experience of financial analysis,
Be an influential communicator, who thrives on challenges,
Be passionate about identifying and driving continuous improvement and work in partnership with our manufacturing and site teams,
Be skilled at presentation, relationship building, influencing and facilitation,
Have experience leading a Continuous Improvement strategy.
Have in-depth knowledge of multiple Lean / CI / OPEX tools and methodologies. What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:
Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
Short Term Bonus Scheme
25 days holiday
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
MyBargains Discount Platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free Independent Mortgage Advice
Employee Assistance Programme
A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Private Medical Insurance
Free Carparking What you can expect from us:
When joining us you can expect a competitive salary, bonus, private medical and a strong benefits package and excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group.

Proud to be Bakkavor
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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