About Lottie Shaw’s
The urge to review one of her family favourite recipes; The Yorkshire Parkin cake, a classic much-loved regional bonfire treat, led to Lottie to create her own brand…Lottie Shaw’s. Convinced once peoples tasted her authentic sticky ginger cake; a blend of oatmeal, ginger and black treacle, folk would enjoy it far & wide, all year round… and the rest as they say is history!
Crowned as the ‘Official Taste of Yorkshire’ in 2018, Lottie Shaw’s is based in Brighouse within a new 12,500 sqft state of the art bakery. Combining sustainable practices with a pride and passion for the tradition of ‘scratch baking’, Lottie Shaw’s continues to bake award-winning seriously good treats with the authentic taste of Yorkshire home baking.
Since April 2024 Lottie Shaw’s has joined the Jacksons’ family, bringing two family-run, Yorkshire businesses together. It’s an exciting time to join our craft bakery!
About the role
A fantastic new opportunity has arisen for a General Manager to join our team at Lottie Shaw’s based in Brighouse.
As our General Manager, you will be responsible for leading all aspects of the day-to-day site operations at Lottie Shaw’s bakery and packing facility. You will develop and implement annual and longer- term plans to support continued growth as well as support all functions within Bakery and Packing to ensure our customers are satisfied and operations are run safely and efficiently. Our General Manager should have operational experience within food manufacturing from the start of the supply chain with raw materials and experience of working within food hygiene and health and safety requirements and behaviours.
Key role responsibilities
• Delivering a safe working environment and leading a culture that enhances behavioural awareness.
• Ensuring that food safety and quality objectives are established, monitored, documented, and reviewed.
• Weekly, long term and seasonal demand planning in line with volume and stock replenishment requirements. Ensuring the plan is published and followed for the bakery and packing teams.
• Responsible for managing stock levels including stock takes – weekly and monthly to support with building the demand plan.
• Providing weekly compliance reports inline with SALSA requirements.
• Ensuring packing requirements are delivered inline with daily KPIs and customer expectations as well as stock and event requirements, including overseeing daily online order fulfilment.
• Effectively manage the interface and relationship between Lottie Shaw’s and Jacksons’ Bakery support functions including but not limited to Technical, NPD and Marketing, Commercial and Procurement.
• Work closely with central teams on product costings and forward planning in regard to equipment and tooling requirements.
• Deliver the Strategic plans as measured by the business balanced scorecard key performance indicators.
• Be responsible for delivery in line with set budgets.
• Coach, mentor and lead the site leadership team and oversee working hours recording to ensure accurate payroll reporting requirements. Manage holidays and absence, performance and conduct related issues.
Job commitments
This is a full time, permanent role, Monday – Friday with flexibility required.
About You
We are looking for an experienced operational leader, ideally within a similar, small business environment and with food manufacturing as an essential. If you have experience in warehousing that would be great along with planning and creating forward demands.
Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it’s like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… go on… why not give it a whirl? Good luck!
