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Who are we ?

We are FBC, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……-And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).

FBC was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.

We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Ilse of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset. We also have offices for our supporting services in St Albans, Liverpool and Moreton. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing employees across all our locations.

We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming the number two biscuit manufacturer worldwide.

We are proud to be part of the Ferrero enlarged family: such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 countries, with products sold in over 170 countries, represented by almost 38.000 employees worldwide, and a consolidated turnover of €12.7 billion (2020-21).

Along with our fantastic brand portfolio, we also have long-term agreements to manufacture several sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City, Marmite, Jacobs, and LU branded products. In addition, we are proud to be a strategic partner for many retailer-branded products.

Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe FBC is a more prosperous and fun place to work with when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each whilst meeting our business goals.

And don't forget… work hard but play harder!

What does your typical day look like?

Responsibility for delivery of the production plan over a 12 month period, supporting and driving improvement plans, CI initiatives, budget and resources to support the overall Edinburgh site improvement strategy and in particular performance of lines within area.

Other key actions will be but not limited to:

• Work with and develop our safety systems to improve the safety & wellbeing of our employees
• Lead the operations team to continuously improve plant output whilst meeting the requirements of a complex, high volume production site.
• Delivery of financial budget aligned with the delivery of KPI’s (waste, TOS (i.e. Overpack/giveaway), efficiency, machine uptime, planned tonnage).
• Work in partnership with site functions, particularly engineering and technical, to deliver annual targets.
• Develop the operations function to achieve best practice
• Support embedding site principles as part of the Edinburgh Improvement Strategy within area.
• Ensure we meet all legislative and compliance activity as required
• Demonstrate role model and winning behaviours to support site culture

Support, motivate, develop and coach the team in order to recognise and reward performance and drive robust succession planning

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

• Proven experience in a leadership role, ideally in an FMCG environment , where driving change management and improvement strategies formed part of the role.
• Use of and exposure to continuous improvement tools and techniques (Lean, 5S, root cause analysis, centre lining)
• Proven track record of developing high performing teams
• Experience of working in a unionised environment desirable

Ability to think strategically to enhance site/cultural performance and behaviours

If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.