We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Role Purpose

To align structures, processes, and accountabilities with the Logistics Finance team to deliver profit and loss to inform strategy, budget, forecast, performance and provide decision support to the functional senior leadership team, ensuring that the internal control environment is implemented in line with group policy

Key Accountabilities

• Provide leadership and direction to the Logistics Finance team to ensure they are engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential
• Play a key role in driving excellence across the business, including monitoring and delivery of performance
• Financial partner in commercial / operational business cases including capital investment, net revenue management and sustainability
• Own the financial internal controls to ensure vulnerabilities are minimised and a continuous improvement plan is delivered
• Sign off accountability on key business decisions to ensure that they are commercially viable, sensible and are aligned with functional and Greencore strategies
• Provide decision support to the functional leadership teams to ensure optimal decisions are made with factual information
• To optimise operational and commercial performance through performance monitoring, using weekly and monthly forecasting and budgeting, capital spend management, commercial balance sheet, and cost performance
• Review, consolidate, own, and implement recommendations for a designated areas budget and forecast Profit and Loss to ensure it is in line with strategy which is realistic and deliverable
• In conjunction with the data and analytics team, develop, continually improve, own, and implement advanced analytics that lead to improved insights and recommended actions for the senior leadership team to use to drive improved business performance
• Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset
• Support the achievement of our inclusion and diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity
• Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to support deliver of our inclusion and diversity commitments, goals and targets and be a role model for inclusive leadership behaviours
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to support delivery of our sustainability commitments, goals and targets
• Actively manage organisational risk related to both Cyber
• Security and data, by committing the necessary focus, resource and investing in the skills and experience required to ensure compliance to relevant policies and legislation, along with taking ownership for personal and commercial data processed throughout the group

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Chartered Accountant with Logistics industry experience
• Influencing skills across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines managing multiple priorities
• Ability to work in a matrix environment
• Leadership presence and excellent communication skills
• Analytical skills with proven ability to research, understand and resolve a wide range of finance issues
• PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Tenacity and determination to ensure goals are achieved

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary, bonus and car allowance
• Private medical insurance
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with development opportunities to further your career.