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Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

The Role:

To gather, report and input data, facilitating the smooth provision of information to functions and site operations.

Key Accountabilities:

Production

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  Scanning in of process paperwork

• Understand drivers in yield and waste
• Agree daily transfer/input of manufactured goods into System21
• Maintain and prepare waste reports
• Send out daily headcount and labour reports
• Develop & build ways of capturing production data and deliver to the SLT
• Communicate production errors/concerns to management
• Process all inputs & reconciliations for timely completion of reporting and stock taking
• Generate production reports for management and operations
• Use methods to analyse data and generate useful business reports
• Evaluate issues, analyse root causes and develop tools/solutions
• Cleaning and replenishing production sheets

Finance

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  Raising purchase orders for all departments
• GRNS of purchase order
• Invoice queries from accounts
• Courier booking and reconciliation
• Organising and processing charity bread donations

People

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  Functional / Operational Excellence
• Ensures accurate recording of data

Team

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  Ability to communicate a compelling and inspired vision for the site's teams.
• Ensure regular communications with the team to encourage a collaborative and positive working relationship
• Provide holiday/sickness cover to other admin team members

Ideal Experiences / Qualifications / Capabilities:

Essential

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  Good knowledge of Excel
• Good knowledge of Word
• Good knowledge of Google Workspace
• Good verbal and numerical skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience of working with different teams
• Action oriented and energetic
• Drive for results

Desirable

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  An understanding of the manufacturing environment
• Previous office based experience

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

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  There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

• Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

• We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

• We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

• We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.