Grade GResponsible for managing a team to plan, execute and appropriate delegation of category planning, including all aspects of risk across the category, and deliver tools and knowledge to create added value for customers, build long-term customer and supplier relationships and contribute to convenience turnover and profitability.Entity:
Customers & Products

Job Family Group:
Retail Group

Job Description:

Food Service Manager is a senior level position within the business responsible for setting the strategy and leading the development of a market leading food service customer proposition. It encompasses Wild Bean Café and Food For Now across our fuel, hybrid and Ev sites, delighting customers with high-quality, innovative products and an excellent customer experience. We are constantly evolving the offer in line with changing customer needs as the energy transition takes place.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of annual Food Service volume, sales and growth targets to support strategy of doubling convenience by 2030
• Lead and drive the development and growth of the Food Service offer in line with strategic objectives set by the business
• Develop and build partnerships with food suppliers to optimise all aspects of commercial terms and margin
• Lead the development of new food offers and key strategic programmes relating to Wild Bean Cafe, including: Delivered Convenience, Franchising, dispensed drinks and Sustainability
• Responsible for ensuring that the highest standards of food safety are maintained at all times, driving continuous improvement in processes relating to food safety
• Ensure that robust supplier contingency plans are in place and that suppliers are aware of, and aligned to, bp growth plans which link into their capacity planning
• Lead and introduce the food service food sourcing and ingredient strategy with the objective of marketing a clear food standards customer message which aligns with brand positioning
• Develop best-practice category plans, including seasonal ranging, for all food categories, using data analytics and customer insights
• Leads development of the Wild Bean Café customer experience, including digital solutions and works with other trading commercial leads to develop a broad view to bp's customer proposition

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience working in a FMCG business
• Broad experience within the U.K. Food Service/Hospitality
• Experience as food development and sourcing expert or direct experience within a food development role
• Experience and ability to build strong food supplier relationships to deliver outstanding performance
• Negotiation and third-party management experience
• Category management experience
• Experienced Team Leader

This role is based in out Milton Keynes office with travel to Sunbury -on-Thames required as needed.

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

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Travel Requirement
Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Continuous improvement, Continuous Learning, Creativity and Innovation, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Knowledge Sharing, Leading transformation, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge, Offer execution and growth, Operational Excellence, Partner relationship management {+ 10 more}

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