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SalaryWe are FBC UK, 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 UK 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 are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Isle of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset and our HQ in St Albans. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming UK Market Leader.
Whilst we know that we have delicious products we also know that that the key ingredient to our success is our people, and the passion we have for our brands. You could be the jammy to our dodger, party ring to our Fox’s or the choc-chip to our Maryland?! We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.
We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) we create a supportive environment for people to thrive and strive to have more positive impact.
We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues’ professional and personal growth. We are committed to providing an environment where everyone can learn from each other and grow through a variety of learning experiences.
Our colleagues make our business special. With strong community values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial and supporting each other whilst meeting our business goals.
What does your typical day look like?
As R&D Industrialisation Manager you will lead an Industrialisation team of Technologists over a number of bakeries, to ensure the link between R&D Test Kitchen and large scale bakery manufacture, Product Development project delivery and technical information for specification generation.
- Leads the project handover from test bakery to scale up to full production scale manufacture through series of product & packaging trials.
- Support Head of Industrialisation, in developing and implementing a robust, gold standard product trial and launch validation process which is standardised across FBC UK network.
- Accountable to ensure project critical paths are met to deliver project OTIF.
- Ownership of Total activity plan, escalating pinch points and resource concerns.
- Build and maintain close working relationships at bakeries and manage up on issues or queries.
- Lead communication to bakeries leadership through pre trial meetings to ensure all stakeholders and informed and engaged in trials and launch phase
- Bringing in best practice and ensuring team completes all documentation to high standard required for organisation of trials, pre production runs and launches.
- Direct reports – 121’s, team meetings. Team objective setting.
What are the key ingredients needs for the role?
- A degree or equivalent experience in a food-related subject and strong knowledge of Product Development process and technical systems.
- Highly experienced in a Product & Process Development role in an FMCG environment, large scale bakery beneficial
- Experience of managing and leading a team.
- Excellent understanding and strong interest in food Product Development
- Excellent working knowledge of manufacturing capabilities, products, process flows and HACCP systems.
