General Manager

3 weeks ago


Essex, United Kingdom Lions Prep Full time

About us Lions Prep is the UK’s highest-rated meal plan service, cooked by chefs. We work with people from all different backgrounds and communities and recognise our own biases. We strive to create a strong sense of belonging and believe we will be better equipped to achieve our goals by building a team that approaches problems from different angles, using different perspectives and experiences to solve problems. We inspire busy people to eat well and live better - Delivering chef-cooked meals crafted from quality, locally sourced produce.

At Lions Prep, we're more than just a food company. We’re helping create a food system that's fair and transparent, where everyone has access to ethically sourced, quality food. High Performance: We foster an environment that attracts, retains, and rewards high performance
To lead, engage and inspire the Management, Senior Leadership Team and colleague communities working across the manufacturing fulfilment unit to level up to our next chapter whilst always achieving our key performance indicators and exceeding our customer expectations.
We aim to keep business streamlined by embracing tools and technology to eliminate mundane tasks and allow our talented minds to focus on bigger things. Where some companies might have an extra QC checking their goods in, we equip our goods in team with the knowledge, resources and technology to be self-sufficient. We are evolving from a large scale commercial kitchen which is what we were last year, to becoming the biggest company in food manufacturing. Key Accountabilities Performance Measures
Delivery of Annual Productivity Plan eg Cost per Box (Direct Labour, Indirect Labour, Waste - all underpinned by our proprietary technology through our custom built ERP)

Attainment and progress against Health, Safety and Environmental Strategy - we are currently hiring for a new SHE Manager and have an external partner supporting in the interim
Delivery of key Safety KPIs to help maintain and consistently achieve GMP
Ethical Audit Performance e.g. Meet the necessary customer, food safety, compliance and environmental codes and standards, addressing any gaps and risks and, ensuring our people are trained, safe and capable:
Attainment and progress against site Food Safety Strategy
Delivery of Food Safety KPIs
Customer Service and Complaints Measures eg CPMU
BRC - although at present we are not looking to attain this across our current unit
Legal and compliant and in line with insurance requirements

Development Plans in place linked to long-term succession
Delivery of the resource plan and management of the risks associated in labour planning to ensure sufficient labour to meet the production plan, including management of the employee relations agenda e.g. trade unions, colleague consultation forums etc
Delivery of the P&L through effective budget controls and management e.g. labour, forecasting, waste, overheads, indirect labour, expenses, compliance and forecasting and delivery of the 1-3 year capital p lan
Effective management of the supply chain through Goods to Despatch, managing Goods in and controlling external storage costs
Management of Logistics providers and optimisation of delivery cost/box

Ensure effective and risk-managed Technology infrastructure is maintained at the site through ownership and governance of standards and embedding of projects
Project deliverables met
Capital Expenditure/Overhead Spend as per Financial Guide
Financial Spend including direct, indirect and capital expenditure
Recruitment, promotion and development activities
Weekly Performance/ Weekly Customer Response.

Demonstrable operational and leadership experience, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment ideally direct to consumer / brand
Strong experience leading and building high-performing teams and influencing a broad range of stakeholders
Extensive experience having lead safety programmes, underpinned by IOSH/NEBOSH or equivalent and specific safety critical training appropriate to the site e.g. Legionella Duty Holder Training
In-depth understanding of food safety and hygiene legal requirements, and experience with GMP, operating a food-safe factory
In-depth understanding of external environmental requirements and experience operating a facility in line with legislative expectations
Understanding of engagement drivers - colleague experience and external stakeholders (press/communities/retailers/consumers/public)
HR, Finance, Commercial, Technical, ideally within a technology or e-commerce structure
Understanding of legislative and customer requirements for compliance training in both H&S and Food Safety
Strong financial acumen and experience having built product costings
comfortable dealing with complex financial data and weighing up risks and choices
Experience having identified and lead business change and improvement activities and initiatives including capex and investment projects


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