Head of Food
Job Description
Job title: Head of Food
Company: Michael Page
Job description: This position plays an integral part to our vision of bringing fresh goods to more sites across the UK. We’re aiming to open over 20 new premises a year and continue to innovate their methods at scale.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Own and deliver the Food P&L, understand weekly and monthly performance impacts
- Own the annual Food Plan, understand P&L impacts and relative importance of each initiative to deliver growth
- Identify, recommend, and adapt the plan as needed in year to deliver the P&L
- Managing a team of 3, recruit, retain, and develop talent
- Set clear direction and accountability, then coach as needed so the team can execute the plan
- Gather Marketing & Ops input to inform Commercial and Product Briefs, to ensure range development maximises the Food opportunities
- Partner with Marketing and Ops, sharing the Seasonal Product Plan to build a strong supporting ‘Go To Market’ Sales Plan
- Drive strong sales performance by ensuring the right range is available at the right time of day with the right freshness
- Lead the recommendations on defining the right range, display, and freshness
- Partner with Ops to operationalise these range recommendations
- Support the Head of Quality & Food Operations to deliver the Kitchen Transformation initiative and quality standards management
Rapidly growing business|Excellent career progression and opportunity for growth
The successful candidate has a background in:
- A passion for the food and drink industry, enjoy food, discovery, care where ingredients come from and value the craft needed to make great food
- Either BSc in Food Science or Chef background with a strong knowledge of NPD
- Strong understanding of how to drive growth at scale and can demonstrate executing a development strategy of a national brand
- Experienced with P&L management and the levers to drive commercial growth, comfortable making high level financial assumptions
- Enjoy accountability, thrive from translating your recommendation into tangible action for growth, influencing and problem solving to achieve the outcome
- Strong influencer who can connect with multiple stakeholders including our founder, Directors and creative team
- A positive disruptor, who is constantly looking to the future of baking methods Well connected with the current food scene and strong branded knowledge of fresh food, QSR and hospitality concepts
Well known and rapidly expanding QSR business based in UK.
Competitive salary + package + very flexible working
Expected salary: £70000 per year
Location: England
