Contract Manufacturing Manager FTC

Date: Feb 12, 2025

Location:

St Albans/Batley/Blackpool, GB

Place of Work: Hybrid

Company Description

We 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.

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.

About The Role

We are seeking a Fixed Term Contract Manufacturing Manager to join our Retail Brand and Partnerships Function.

Roles Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with key partner stakeholders dealing with both strategic and day to day issues including managing demand, service levels and quality
• Creating plans to deliver the PS3 targets working cross functionally and externally to ensure clear targets are in place and expectations set both internally and externally
• Accountable for delivering the contract manufacturing P&L including delivery of CPI mitigation and cost out strategies
• Managing the internal and external supply and demand cycles, ensuring that internal labour and capacity are aligned with the partner requirements at the minimum possible cost.
• Relentlessly drive for optimised outputs to deliver against business commitments.
• Drive contract renegotiation to protect and enhance FBC UK interests and ensure all T&Cs are clear and achievable.
• Define and deliver annual planning targets working with operational and partner teams to ensure effective implementation and prioritisation of initiatives
• Oversee product change roadmap, managing profitability from concept initiation to launch across innovation, procurement and cost out agendas.
• Monitor progress against business targets/KPI’s on a 4 weekly basis and communicate any issues, opportunities, actions required or recommendations
• Be responsible for driving visibility of the contract manufacturing business unit ensuring share of voice and communicating key achievements and successes.
• Play a leadership role in the wider Retailer Brands and Partnerships Team, supporting initiatives across private label and partnership brands, supporting and developing the team
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of operational footprint and constraints.
• Manage and control contract manufacturing budget

Who We Are Looking For
• Must have evidence of delivering commercial and/or operational P&L with strong understanding of factory and commercial finance
• Must have a good understanding of end-to-end manufacturing S&OP processes including demand and supply planning, costing and stage gate processes
• Must have experience of driving business growth via strong external partnerships with key relationships at day to day and senior stakeholder level
• Previous experience of managing a similar role, developing and growing contract manufacturing business within FMCG, is ideal
• Previous experience of working in similar supply chain or commercial roles in FMCG would be considered
• Natural leader with ability to enthuse and inspire (and disrupt if required)
• Highly commercial, completer finisher
• High level of operational, supply chain and financial understanding
• Creative thinker who is prepared to challenge the norm
• Self starter
• Team working and strong interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills: verbal, presentational and written
• Highly numerate and IT literate
• Experience of working within food and snacking advantageous but not essential
• Evidence of successful leadership, development and delivery of budgets and achievement of operational targets
• Evidence of ability to build and deliver via a virtual team would be preferable

Diversity Statement

FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at FBC UK. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.