Archive for February 17, 2012

QC (ref:3920)

Location: East Midlands (East Midlands)

Salary: £15,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

A fresh produce company requires an energetic and dynamic QC to join their team. This could be your first real QC role if you are interested in getting into fresh produce. Our client is a well known and very well regarded fresh produce supplier to the high street retail and foodservice sectors. The IDEAL candidate will possess: Flexible approach, Computer literacy and detail conscious. Although experience in a QC role is preferred this is not essential as full training will be given

Garden Centre Manager (ref:3912)

Location: North London (London)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

My client is seeking a strong and experienced retail manager to lead an established medium sized garden centre in North London. The garden centre is successful one in a highly competitive area and the new manager will be responsible for ensuring it maintains and improves its high standards and ensures it keeps its point of difference and USP.

Garden Centre Manager (ref:3913)

Location: Surrey (South East)

Salary: Circa £29,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Horticultural retail manager required for small plant-focussed garden centre in affluent area. This is an excellent role for a strong Assistant Manager (with a plant background) or similar to step into their first site. Further progression and development is available for the right candidate.

Fencing & Landscaping Department Manager (ref:3914)

Location: Berkshire (South East)

Salary: Circa £23,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Retailer with landscape/building materials experience required for large landscape department within a successful garden centre. Our client serves both the public and trade customers and the department has a loyal customer base. The successful client will have good retail, management and product knowledge and may come from a 'Builders Merchant' background.

Food Technologist (ref:3324)

Location: London (London)

Salary: Circa £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

To use technical knowledge, expertise and judgment to ensure consistent delivery of innovative high end quality products, whilst ensuring that sales and profit targets are still met by the business. Our client is one of the UK's major multiple retailers.

The IDEAL candidate will possess technical knowledge, expertise and judgement to ensure the consistent delivery of innovative, high quality, safe, and legal products, which meet our client's brand values, ensuring categories meet their sales, and profit targets.

  • Identifying and delivering (manage the delivery) of strategic technical initiatives and to take accountability for key technical workstreams.
  • Using knowledge and skills to deliver innovative technical solutions to continue to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
  • Using experience to aid other members of technical team to widen knowledge and deliver category business unit objectives

Do you know your Carrots?! (ref:3832)

Location: West Sussex (South East)

Salary: Flexible ~ flexible day rate + expenses

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a major UK grower and are keen to develop their carrot growing operation. To this end, they are keen to engage the services of a very experienced 'carrot expert' to help ensure that they produce the best crop at all times and develop a reputation as innovators 'par excellence'. Role would be part time and could be project based or retained. The Client is very flexible.

Senior Technical Manager (ref:3646)

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: £45,000 ~ £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Responsibility for Quality and Technical issues within the business. All aspects of the technical relationships with multiple retail customer(s). Management of a team of dedicated technical/quality individuals. Contributing to the overall success of the business. Our client is forward thinking and dynamic. Supplying salad products to supermarket customers.

The IDEAL candidate will possess:

  • A track record of achievement in a technically challenging environment.
  • Experience of dealing with a major UK multiple.
  • Familiarity with the technical requirements of the major multiples and an up to date knowledge of current food standards legislation.
  • Team leadership qualities, with drive, charisma and enthusiasm.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with a commitment to first-class customer service.
  • Down to earth, hard working, ambitious and commercially astute.

Agricultural Marketing Executive (ref:3853)

Location: East Midlands (East Midlands)

Salary: Circa £25,000 ~ £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Newly created role with plenty of scope to grow. You'll be responsible for all the company's marketing activities (PR, database, newsletters, website, social media etc). Liaising with the board to determine marketing strategies. Visiting customers where required. Attending trade shows and exhibitions on behalf of the company. Liaising with the sales team and head office and around the country.

Our client is a very well regarded agricultural service provider with great reputation throughout the sector.

The IDEAL candidate will possess:

  • Marketing, agriculture, horticultural or food experience/qualification is highly preferred
  • A flair for creativity and marketing, Someone looking to take on a role and expand it further.
  • Excellent administration and organisational abilities

Want to develop your leadership skills in 2012?

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As produce and horticultural specialists we recognised the need for industry-focused training programmes designed to meet the specific needs of our sectors - that's why we pioneered the MorePerformance Leadership Development Programme. It's now been running successfully for over eight years and remains unique in our sectors.

Our aim in developing the programme was to help our clients attract, retain and develop the best people. So it's not only designed to give those people the skills to deal better with their existing day-to-day challenges, but also focuses on developing the skills, confidence and mindset that they'll need to build a successful career in the dynamic and challenging, but also very rewarding, environment that is, the modern fresh produce and horticulture supply chain.

With current MLDP alumni numbers of around 120, the endorsement of the UK's largest retailer and accreditation by the Royal Agricultural College, we naturally believe that we're succeeding in meeting the needs of our clients.

But don't just take our word for it! We recently did a survey of all our past delegates and their sponsoring companies and this is what their responses told us:

From our past delegates:

  • •100% felt that the skills and techniques they learnt on the programme improved their performance at work and made them a better leader
  • 93% felt the leadership programme had made an impact on their career to date

From our past managers:

  • 100% felt the skills developed by their employees on the programme benefitted their business
  • 85% thought this type of training was important for the development of not only the individual but also the skills required for the future of the industry as a whole.

Interested in finding out MORE?
Our next programme runs from April - December 2012 and is a mixture of 4 one day and 4 two day sessions.

For general information regarding content, dates and costs, contact Jan Khan at jan@moreperformance.co.uk or Louise Dennington at louise@morepeople.co.uk.

You can also now register your interest on-line at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLDPinterest. We'll pick up the details and get back to you and don't forget, it's always good to talk so please feel free to call us on 01780 480530.

 

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