Head of Operations

**Head of Operations**

**The Pizza Factory, Nottingham**

**Competitive salary and excellent benefits**

When you join 2 Sisters, you will become part of the UK’s largest food manufacturer, with an annual turnover of £3billion+, over 13,500 people and covering more than 18 sites.

This role sits within our Meals division, where we live by our mantra of ‘Making Every Meal Moment Special’. We have 5 sites creating over 500 different products to feed our nation, from ready meals to iced fingers we love our food, and we love our people.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we couldn’t do it without our team. It is a team where everyone counts we empower you with trust and give you the freedom to deliver. We ‘do what we say’ and accept accountability which allows our customers to trust us to create great tasting, innovative and quality meal solutions.

**About the Role**

Within this role, you will be operationally responsible for delivering the site strategy, driving operational excellence, meeting financial targets, and developing key relationships with customers and suppliers.

As a senior management team member on-site with multiple direct reports, you will critically review management capability and ensure development, recruitment and succession plans are in place and report directly to the Site Director.

You will input into the site supply chain strategy, deliver the site Health and Safety plan, and control the site's capital investment and overhead base to provide customer expectations whilst meeting 2SFG targets.

As the Head of Operations, you will control and continually reduce the cost of manufacture to deliver labour and material variance targets through a site manufacturing improvement plan. You will also ensure the effective integration of the S&OP process at site level between Operations and Commercial as well as driving site communication and engagement.

We're looking for a real professional, someone who can hit the ground running, set out their agenda and have the confidence and resilience to deliver.

**About You**
- Experience of managing large food manufacturing sites (500+ employees)
- You'll have a Strong financial commercial understanding, with experience with at least £50m+ turnover factory within the food industry. Ideally within the chilled or short shelf life sectors
- Proven experience of delivering successful change management & performance improvement initiatives
- Able to build effective cross-functional relationships with both internal and external customers to create mutual trust, understanding and respect
- Clear evidence of talent management/people development experience at all levels
- Experience of working with the major multiples, M&S experience desirable.
- H&S - Nebosh (desirable)
- Food Safety - Level 4 HACCP, High Food Hygiene (desirable)
- Quality / Lean - Black Belt, Consumer value (desirable)

In return for your hard work and dedication 2 Sisters Food Group are offering an excellent starting salary alongside a competitive package including 35 days holiday and the opportunity to influence a market leader during a time of real growth.
- At 2 Sisters are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all employees and applicants. This includes age, disability, neurodiversity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Nottingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: JO-2301-5821