Opex Manager
- Posted 10 March 2026
- LocationNewark on Trent
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Internal
- Reference050244
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 31 March 2026
Job description
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our site in Newark, Nottinghamshire specialises in producing a range of chilled deserts, including trifles, cream cakes, and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,800 people and operates in a fast-paced, high-volume production environment.
What you’ll be doing
- Define stretching site financial BI targets, aligned with the return on investment targets defined in current and next year budget and longer-term strategic plans
- Work with colleagues to develop a pipeline of achievable BI initiatives capable of delivering the agreed BI targets
- Manage delivery of BI initiatives within agreed timescales and financial targets, leveraging the skills and resource of the local BI or Operations team and negotiating additional skills, resource and capital from additional stakeholders where necessary
- Manage site deployment of the Business Improvement Programme to full maturity, using Process Confirmations to measure and drive adoption and being an advocate for the site
- Build site capability to deliver business improvements through coaching BI principles and tools, primarily with the BI team and extending to relevant colleagues from Operations and other functions
- Promote full adoption of the BI key performance indicator (key performance indicator) suite and performance management process (PMP) and their role in identifying future BI opportunities
- Be an active member of the Greencore BI community, contributing to and drawing from best practice standards to help drive coordinated group-wide performance improvement
- Lead and direct the site BI team to ensure that people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
What we’re looking for
- Experience in a manufacturing environment, recognised as a world class or lean organisation
- Experience of delivering results using Business Improvement techniques
- Demonstrates effective leadership skills, leading teams through business process changes and site improvement plans
- Skilled in analytical software plus competent user of Microsoft Office suite
- Ability to deliver training, coach others and facilitate group problem solving sessions
- Program and project management skills
We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Redeployment Priority statement: Colleagues whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who meet essential role criteria will be given priority consideration for this role.
Colleagues in central/support functions whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who accept a new role can continue working from their current location, in accordance with our location guidance, where feasible. The exception to this would be if a colleague accepts a role that requires in-person attendance at a specific location e.g. a Finance colleague who accepts an operationally focussed Finance role. All other successful applicants will be expected to attend work at locations where roles are based. Location expectations and any associated working arrangements will be discussed and confirmed as part of the interview and offer process*