So, what will I be doing?

If you're an established leader with manufacturing experience seeking the next progressive step in your career, look no further! We're looking for someone who is passionate about delivering great wholesome products to take the reigns at our Crewkerne site.

As Site Manager of our Crewkerne manufacturing facility, you'll be  instrumental in ensuring we are able to get our delicious range of high quality products out to our customers in a timely fashion by leading, coordinating and managing all aspects of site operations. Working closely with the Site Management Team you will be integral in embedding the Yeo Valley culture, demonstrating our values and ensuring we're on track to achieve our strategic aims.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring our employees Health & Safety is put first
  
• Leading and managing all site staff through strong, visible, leadership 
• Leading by example when it comes to displaying Yeo Valley's core values
• Managing and delivering on site objectives by working closely and collaboratively with the Site Management Team and other relevant business-wide stakeholders
• Achieving site productivity, efficiency, quality, service and financial objectives through agreed key performance indicators
  
• Ensuring continuous improvement activities take place
• Working cross-functionally both leading on and supporting wider business initiatives and projects where appropriate 

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

The important things:

• Management experience and recognised management qualification
• Proven experience of leading and managing large complex sites
• Experience of managing Health & Safety
• Ability to role model our company values 
• A focus on delivering by working collaboratively 

• You're degree qualified in a relevant subject area 
• You have a recognised qualification in Health & Safety
• You have worked closely with external customers, preferably in retail/food

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.