London
£45-£50k + bonus & free bread/coffee/cake!
GAIL’s Bakery is a craft-focused business that makes fantastic food and coffee. We love food and want to share that love with our neighbourhoods’
Our people all live to a set of values, which work as a framework to keep us focussed on what is important to us as we grow. These values are simple; We care about baking; we care about Community, and we care about each other.
With 84 bakeries and an exciting, continued growth plan, we want to open our new bakeries with people who share in these values.
An exciting opportunity has come up in our safety team for an experienced Food Quality & Standards Manager.
You will be responsible for the quality of food in our bakeries, delivering this by continuing to build on and grow our processes and execution. You will lead a team of quality partners to drive quality, professionalism, and pride in our products through a robust quality control program and tailored site-support to grow sales and protect quality.
Who we are looking for:
• Highly Collaborative team member with all our support teams
• Bringing teams together to move projects forward, never losing the initial concept
• Excellent communicator both verbally and written
• High level of attention to detail
• Committed to a job well done
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• A love of Food
About the role:
• To create a framework around the quality of food, creating a structure and way of working to get quality onto the forefront of the agenda
• Introducing and executing our quality control program to drive and develop food quality
• Identify and drive continuous improvement of performance and quality through creating and documenting procedures and standards
• Manage a team of quality partners and supporting them to deliver a quarterly quality control program
• Establishing and embedding in bakery visits and support, structuring the food quality partners to deliver a robust quality plan
• Working collaboratively with the food training team, food quality and standards team and technical team to form a plan for quality, both short term and longer term.
• Clear targets and feedback loop on both quality and execution in bakeries, to create a clear structure and hierarchy on root cause.
• Facilitate openness with the different teams to establish or improve procedures, standards, and systems
• Cast an operational lens over commercial objectives and translate them into plans that engage our Bakers and support them to successfully execute and embed