Raw Materials Manager

Raw Materials Manager

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Leeds

Ways of Working: Hybrid/Remote

Hours of work: 8:30-17:00

Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US.

Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What you’ll be doing

As a Raw Materials Manager, you will provide central technical governance and assurance for raw materials, ensuring food safety, integrity, compliance and risk visibility through robust standards, horizon scanning, audit activity and effective escalation across the supply base. As such, you will:

• Support central raw material technical governance frameworks by setting expectations, providing assurance and overseeing consistent application of Group, customer and legal standards


• Provide central oversight of raw material risk assessments, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, challenged and escalated appropriately, with clear mitigation actions in place


• Support central coordination of raw material incident investigation by reviewing evidence, maintaining governance records and recommending system-level corrective actions


• Support horizon scanning for raw materials by monitoring regulatory, industry, customer and scientific intelligence, translating insight into clear risk and impact assessments for the business


• Maintain and continuously improve central raw material governance documentation and the Technical, Integrity and Compliance (TIC) Knowledge Hub to ensure clarity, accessibility and control


• Provide central assurance through oversight of raw material traceability testing, reviewing outcomes and escalating gaps in due diligence or integrity controls.


• Provide authoritative technical reporting and governance input for internal, customer and regulatory audits, ensuring transparency of raw material risks and controls

What we’re looking for

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  Excellent technical background in chilled food and/or food manufacturing


• Extensive understanding of food safety risk assessment and quality management systems


• Experience conducting and reviewing technical audits within food supply chains


• Knowledge of UK retail technical standards and regulatory requirements


• Ability to interpret technical, regulatory and industry intelligence into governance insights


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to challenge and escalate


• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and governance discipline


• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint


• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline (desirable)

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits


• Holidays


• Competitive matched pension contribution


• Life insurance up to 4x salary


• Company share save scheme


• Greencore Qualifications


• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform


• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform


• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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