What would you get for working here?

If You Have The Technical Leadership, Food Manufacturing And Retailer Experience We Are Looking For, You Will Receive a Total Reward Package That Includes

- Competitive Salary, dependent on experience
- 33 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
- Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
- Life Insurance (4x Basic Salary)
- Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
- Professional development opportunities and qualifications
- A progressive working setting that puts its people at the heart of what it does
- Great opportunity for career development

What would you get for working here?

If You Have The Technical Leadership, Food Manufacturing And Retailer Experience We Are Looking For, You Will Receive a Total Reward Package That Includes

- Competitive Salary, dependent on experience
- 10% Pension Contribution (5% Ees / 5% Ers)
- 33 days annual leave (Inc of Bank Holidays)
- Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
- Life Insurance (4x Basic Salary)
- £250 refer-a-friend scheme
- Access to Stream (formerly Wagestream) – a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you track earnings and access earned pay before payday, plus budgeting tools and money support to help you stay in control.
- Access to an exclusive employee benefits/discounts platform where you can save £££s on your everyday spends
- Career development opportunities and qualifications
- A progressive working environment that puts its people at the heart of what it does
- Great opportunity for career development

What would you be doing?

Our vision is to be the “go-to” supplier of premium bakery products, working nationally with leading retailers and regionally through our own brands. As Senior Technical Manager,



you will provide technical leadership, coaching and strategic oversight to Group Technical Support and the Group Hygiene Manager, helping to embed high-performing quality, food safety and hygiene systems across all sites.

Responsibilities

- Providing hands‑on coaching, mentoring and development for Group Technical Support and the Group Hygiene Manager
- Acting as the senior escalation point for technical and hygiene challenges, customer concerns and compliance issues
- Leading the development and consistent application of robust Group Hygiene Management Systems across all five sites
- Aligning hygiene standards, cleaning validation, monitoring and verification across the Group
- Supporting BRCGS, retailer and customer audit preparation, including corrective action programmes and continuous improvement
- Leading the group-wide implementation of M&S; Quality Standards and supporting consistent understanding and application
- Conducting internal assessments and providing coaching around M&S; compliance
- Acting as a senior technical representative for key customers and supporting QAS reviews and technical presentations
- Overseeing group-level quality and hygiene performance metrics, including complaint trends, KPIs, environmental monitoring and verification
- Leading cross‑functional improvement activity and supporting incident investigations involving technical or hygiene issues
- Providing governance and escalation oversight for food safety, legality, hygiene and quality risks
- Working collaboratively with QA, NPD, Procurement, Commercial, Operations, Engineering and retailer technical teams

Essential





Knowledge Requirements

- Extensive experience in technical, quality or food safety leadership within food manufacturing; bakery experience would be advantageous
- A strong working knowledge of BRCGS, HACCP and retailer technical standards, particularly M&S; requirements
- Demonstrable experience of coaching, developing and influencing technical teams at different levels
- Experience of developing junior managers and building technical capability
- Robust analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the confidence to make sound risk‑based decisions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, including confidence in customer‑facing environments
- The ability to work effectively across multiple sites and functions in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment
- Flexibility to travel between all Village Bakery sites as required

Desirable

- A degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Microbiology, Bakery Science or a related discipline is preferred
- HACCP Level 4 is desirable
- Lead Auditor certification would be beneficial

So, who are we? If you haven’t heard of us before we are a family owned and managed Craft Bakery producing an award‑winning range of Bread, Morning Goods, Pies and gluten free products.

Our business has been producing products in this category since 1964 and since then we have grown in success due to our reputation for quality, innovation and technical experience. As a result of this continued growth, we now operate from a number of world class and well invested bakeries in and around Wrexham, including our dedicated Gluten free site ‘Gluten Freedom’ and our state‑of‑the‑art ‘Super Bakery’ at Ash Road.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team soon!

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

📌 SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER
🏢 The Village Bakery Group
📍 Senior