Data Contact

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Our purpose is to bring happiness with every bite. It’s a commitment shared by every pladis colleague, all around the world.

Role Title: Data Contact

Hiring Manager: Dean Hassall

Location: Wigston Recruiter: Angela Smith

Working Pattern: Day Shift

Our story

Family and ideas have always been our ingredients. Our founding families believed biscuits and chocolates could bring moments of happiness to the world. Their ideas have stood the test of time. Their spirit continues to inspire our future. It’s in the care and the craft we bake into biscuits and chocolates that have been loved for generations. And it’s in the fresh ideas, the new twists, flavours and textures we add to old and new favourites.

A global community

Our 16,000 colleagues, in every corner of the world, bring their own experience of happiness to pladis. Each of us is unique but coming together as one family of bakers and chocolatiers working hard, with pride and with purpose. Because after all these years, we still believe biscuits and chocolates bring people together. We are pladis. We bake happiness. Happiness with every bite.

Inspired by you

Our founders didn’t follow rules and recipes, they created them. We’re looking for fresh thinkers to help us create the next chapter for pladis.

pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.

Because growth is our oxygen and our fuel. And it’s our deep and abiding belief that growth comes from working together, helping each other out, always passionate about our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.

Why join our team?

pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie’s and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy. As we start on our new journey, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products as the pladis family - new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness.

Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each of the family businesses that have united to form pladis are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.

What will this role achieve?

We are looking for one experienced Data Contact for permanent position in Assortment’s working day shift.

You will need to work effectively with other team members in the department as well as other DC’s and ATM’s.

What will be your key deliverables?

The successful applicant must have a proactive approach, with a ‘can do’ attitude who is committed to maintaining high standards in the area’

What do you need for this role?
- Manufacturing packing experience
- Excellent communication skills.
- Good at working with other people within different departments

OUR WINNING TRAITS AND BEHAVIOURS
- Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
- Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
- Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success
- Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
- Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe - and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in fostering an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings wi