Continuous Improvement and Training Manager

Overview
At PepsiCo UK, we're proud to make some of the nation's favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we're also home to one of the world's largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

As a Continuous Improvement and Training Manager you will be responsible for all site Continuous Improvement activity, including; coaching of problem solving, supporting the site team with business improvement activity, leading the site Productivity agenda through Powersteering and coaching the Kaizen Leaders through individually led improvement projects. You will lead the site training activity through the coaching and management of the shift resource and capability coordinators (SRCCs) and the site and shift trainers, including but not limited to; development and implementation of the site training strategy, management and development of the site training curriculum and systems and supporting the Operations Managers and wider site management team with training plans to maintain and build site capability.

Responsibilities

• Focus on strategic workstreams identified through site vision and period QCDM - to drive and implement systems and processes to achieve exceptional people, products and performance.
• Responsible for identifying trends and opportunities for improvement through our QCDM framework and through productivity ideation.
• Responsible for delivering and coordinating improvement projects including productivity through their LSS team.
• Responsible for the Site Strategy behind building sustainable capability within our teams to deliver exceptional performance.
• Ensure the felt experience from interview to induction and first 12 months in role is at the level we would expect to retain and grow our people.
• Responsible for the delivery of all role core curriculums at site, through the shift resource and capability coordinators, the site training team, the SETs, STs and management team.
• Responsible for the site CI agenda, working at all levels to identify valuable CI projects and support teams through the improvement framework to deliver step change improvement results.
• Accountable for the site productivity commitment.
• Responsible for the site training agenda; working with all departments to ensure an aligned approach to capability build across all functional areas.

Qualifications

• First line leadership experience and demonstrated leadership in the areas of operations, safety, and quality.
• Great communication, influencing, analytical skills and effective stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in continuous improvement.
• Good IT and presentation skills.
• Strategic and conceptual thinker - ability to identify trends, prioritise opportunities and create sustainable strategies.
• Embraces challenges and risks - highly motivated to manage their time, energy and resources to effectively implement ideas.
• A smart innovator - takes the initiative to solve problems and able to bring relevant concepts to their work.
• Delivers the right results - Demonstrates perseverance, a positive attitude and consideration of risk in pursuit of challenging goals.
• Creates an inclusive culture - proactively shares information and knowledge to help others gain new skills and capabilities.
• An experienced people leader - demonstrated ability to engage and inspire a team through active listening and taking on different opinions.
• A champion of talent development - a strong coach and facilitator with a passion for developing others.

A Space to be You
We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.

Equal Opportunities
We're an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.

About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit , and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.