Area Manager Cardiff, Wales
Job description
We have a new opportunity for an Area Manager to join our Operations team based on site at our Memory Lane Cakes factory in Cardiff. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with supervisory or management experience looking to take the next step in their career within a fast-paced production environment.
Our Memory Lane Cakes site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, traybakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on Continuous Improvement (CI) at all levels.
This role will report to the Operations Manager and will be responsible for ensuring the safe production of quality products for our customers. You will lead an area comprising of two different production processes, ensuring production targets are met whilst adhering to high health and food safety standards.
The successful candidate will enjoy managing people and have experience of building and developing individuals within high performing teams. Thriving in a fast paced, pressurized environment is a must, along with strong problem-solving skills and perseverance. Ideally, the candidate will have experience of using root cause analysis tools or can demonstrate a keen desire to learn in this area.
This is a great opportunity for someone who likes leading people in a fast-paced, targeted environment. We are one of the UK largest bakeries and this role will give you a variety of skills, experience and group exposure for you to develop within the company. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has the drive and enthusiasm, who is looking at continuous improvement in the role and within themselves.
This is what you’ll actually do!
This is a key role in our Operations team. Working on days, the successful candidate will be the most senior person on shift, responsible for all facets of the operation. You will report to the Operations Manager and be tasked with leading and developing the shift-based manufacturing team to deliver the range/scorecard of operational Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and objectives aligned to the business needs.
As the Area Manager you will put safety first, ensuring area compliance with all company and statutory regulations. You will be quality conscious, ensuring that products are consistently produced within specification and in a food safe way that meets customer audit and COP requirements. You will drive service to focus on the customer and the delivery of the schedule whilst aligning with budget requirements and identifying cost improvement opportunities. You will initiate and support CI projects and demonstrate an awareness and engagement with SIC, including escalation.
You will visibly lead your team to achieve hourly and daily KPI’s, utilizing performance management tools effectively to maximise engagement and delivery (set objectives, communicate, feedback, review performance). You will support the operations manager with a plan for improving employee engagement and ensure effective and aligned communication within the shift, other shifts and cross functionally.
You will facilitate personal development plans for direct reports to meet both individual and business needs and engage with succession planning by identifying the next generation of Area Managers and Section Leads within the employee population. You will promote teamwork and an inclusive environment so that all employees in the area feel involved and are treated in a consistent way. You will focus on developing strong working relationships to promote daily collaboration and cross functional problem solving – implement APT approach.
Ideally this is you!
- Experience in managing people including leading and developing a team
- Previous experience in a FMCG environment
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrates a sound understanding of the manufacturing process
- Be conversant with plant and process engineering to understand the nature of issues
- SIC engagement and awareness with an understanding of key areas of escalation
- Strong IT skills in MS Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- You will be well organised with good planning and time management skills
- You will also possess excellent team working and clear communicating skills
- Analytical and numerical skills
- Educated to higher level or equivalent in a related vocational subject
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cardiff, CF14 4XR: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
