Food Programme Manager, Project Manager

Food Programme Manager, Project Manager UK Wide - Field Based £30,000 - £38,000 This is a great opportunity as a Project Manager to utilise your food industry knowledge and relationships to benefit the non-profit sector. This is your opportunity to take your extensive food industry knowledge and put it to use to benefit the food non-profit sector. This role is field based, so you can be based anywhere in the UK, but there will be the need to travel to London and Supplier locations across the UK. As Programme Manager, you will lead various food projects. The overall aim is a pioneering UK project exploring ways to manage the inconsistency of surplus food supplies and to prevent gluts of produce going to waste. You will be central to this ongoing agility; leading and delivering important projects which improve flexibility and offer to the food industry. The projects will take short life foods, particularly produce, and canning, freezing, juicing, and cooking them turning them into long life sources of nutrition for charities. The aim is to increase the volume of accepted produce, expanding all year-round offering to communities. The project has been running small scale trials for the first phase, and now we are seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial individual to take this project into the next phase, delivering a significant step change in the volume of food rescued over the upcoming UK harvests. You will work closely with Account Managers in the Food Team to ensure that projects align with wider partnership plans, whilst being understood and engaged with by all relevant stakeholders. Furthermore, you will be central in our continued reporting to the Trust on how their generous donation has helped save previously wasted food and supported communities. The ideal professional will have: Proven experience in project management, preferably in the food industry: manufacturing, retail, or related sector Experience of delivering complex, collaborative projects, setting up and running new service improvement and/or service development projects, involving a range of stakeholders Detail-oriented and analytical, with the ability sit across multiple projects at once and synthesise complex information for different audiences Excellent written/verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate credibly with senior internal stakeholder and external partners including through the creation of written decks/briefings Experience of collaborating across multiple teams and have strong prioritisation skills to align consensus around key goals and targets Quick to learn new processes and technologies particularly within manufacturing, and to build the working relationships required to deliver fast, sustainable results An understanding of technical & operational food production to ensure that manufacturers can process and package to BRC standards within their manufacturing schedule Project Management qualification e.g. Agile, Prince This is a new role that would suit a Food Programme/Project Manager who is seeking a rewarding opportunity to make a positive impact and give back to the food sector. This is an immediate need, so please apply with your cv promptly. For more information contact Rachel. REF. RLP47894