Head of Continuous Improvement

Factory Management | Leyland | Full Time | Permanent

We are Dr. Oetker. Since our beginnings, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts at the core of our business, as well as digital platforms and services – we create the "Taste of Home" for millions around the world with you.

Are you ready for a new challenge? Then take your next step.

Do you love pizza, and would you like to be part of the team that makes the UK’s favourite frozen branded pizza? Do you thrive on getting things done and making real change? Then carry on reading!

Why join Dr. Oetker?

At Dr. Oetker UK we are continuously investing to maintain our state-of-the-art production facility. All of our teams contribute to the success of our business, and we are as proud of our hard-working friendly culture as we are of the fantastic market leading pizzas we make. Being a family owned business we “Create a taste of home” through our quality products and our culture.

What’s the role?

The Leyland Facility is where the Chicago Town Pizzas started over 30 years ago. We are looking for a dedicated individual with a drive for continually improving processes to join our state-of-the-art production facility and play a key role working alongside our teams who are proudly making the Dr. Oetker and Chicago Town branded pizzas.

Being a key member of the Site Leadership Team, with a direct link into the PPU international team you will be responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of a site wide improvement strategy to deliver a sustainable culture of improvement.

You will lead the continuous improvement initiative process and champion change across departments to deliver outstanding levels of performance and development. Having responsibility for the  management and development of the Continuous Improvement Team, whilst also coaching, mentoring and motivating staff at all levels across the business to support the development of a Continuous Improvement culture.

Liaising with key stakeholders, you will lead efforts to analyse key business drivers and identify, prioritise, plan and deploy improvement initiatives to drive sustainable business results.

Who we are looking for?

At Dr Oetker we believe that our employees play a key role in our success. To help shape our future you will ideally be educated to Degree level (food science/Quality/CI/engineering) and have formal management training with previous Senior and Continuous Improvement Management and Lean implementation experience within a large scale manufacturing environment.

A confident communicator, presenter and influencer with key internal and external stakeholders, you will have the ability to demonstrate a high level of energy and commitment necessary to ensure critical and demanding projects are completed on schedule and are sustainable. Alongside a proven track record of successful leadership and people management experience.

The ability to work within a rapidly changing environment is key, being able to maintain working to high standards whilst meeting short term time pressured goals alongside long term strategic objectives, demonstrating practical problem solving and resourcefulness with the ability to make key decisions.

Taking in to account the nature of Dr Oetker being a global business you must be capable of identifying synergies through the global operation infrastructure encompassing 50 manufacturing sites with the flexibility to travel overseas for short/medium term if required.