Product Manager (Entrepreneurial Retailer Brand)
- Employer
- Burtons Biscuits
- Location
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- Competitive Salary plus benefits to include 25 days holiday, company pension, private healthcare
- Closing date
- 29 Nov 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain & Logistics
Job Details
Imagine a Jammie Dodger without the Jam, or a Maryland Cookie without the Chocolate Chips.
Like every great recipe, the right ingredients create amazing results and when it comes to our business and our mission to ‘Bake Great Tasting Biscuits’ Burton’s are no different
We have a great opportunity for a bright, passionate and entrepreneurial individual to join our business as a Product Manager.
Working for the Product Controller, you will be key to managing our Private Label product portfolio, maximising profitability, managing capacity and working closely with our five bakeries to optimise our current business and introduce new product capabilities. You will work closely with sales, marketing and project managers ensuring the effective management of all external and internal stakeholders and be closely aligned with supply chain and procurement to ensure that all change is managed efficiently. You will need to run key projects, creating project plans and facilitate key meetings.
You do not need to have worked in a similar role before to be considered. If you are self-motivated, have a strong commercial acumen and a desire to be part of a winning team the this will be a role you’ll love.
Based in our Head Office in St Albans, but with a requirement to travel around the UK and occasionally abroad, this role will present the right individual with a unique opportunity to develop their career in a successful growing business. We offer a bespoke ‘Being Your Best At Burton’s’ development plan and you will have access to our online training portal, giving you the ability to accelerate your development as you desire.
If you have experience in a Product, Project, Sales, Finance or NPD function and are looking for an opportunity that is strategic & commercially focused, with the opportunity to influence the future direction of our business, then get in touch.
Location: Office Based, from our fantastic Head Office in St Albans, Hertfordshire (great location to commute by train, only a 5 minute walk from St Albans City Station)
Salary: Competitive Salary plus benefits to include 25 days holiday, company pension, private healthcare, company bonus scheme, free running, yoga and boot camp clubs.
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 8.45am-5.30pm Monday-Friday
Company
Who Are Burtons Biscuits?
We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!
‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’.
At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic, being entrepreneurial and being supportive to each other to meet our common goals…oh and did we mention having fun?!
Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.
As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.
Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.
Within our Burton’s group, we have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans. In total we employ circa 2,100 people around across our locations.
Burton’s Biscuits is owned by Ferrero and we are proud to be part of such a fantastic and successful business. The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 Countries and their products are sold in over 170 Countries. We are delighted to be part of the Ferrero group which represents over 377,000 employees across the world and has a consolidated turnover of €12.3 billion (2020).
- Website
- http://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/
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