Our vision is to make the world a healthier, happier place. At Slimming World, we transform the lives of our valued members and help them achieve long-term success through a liberating eating plan and unique support system developed over many years. People are at the heart of Slimming World - if you'd love to be part of our journey and make a difference, we can't wait to hear from you Do you want to hear more about the Slimming World story? You can find out more here. At Slimming World we’re passionate about great food, and we support our members’ weight loss journeys with several innovative, top quality food ranges. They’re all designed to make life easier for our members, and they’re an important part of our service and our brand. We’re excited to share a new opportunity at Slimming World’s Head Office in Alfreton for a senior leader with extensive experience in the food industry to help us shape the future vision for our food brand. Your role with us Reporting to the Director of Food, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the three main areas of our food brand - our market leading Free Food frozen range, our Hi-fi cereal bars and our newest venture, Slimming World Kitchen recipe kit home delivery. As well as liaising with internal teams and managing your own team, you’ll work with our manufacturing, supply and retail partners at a senior level, driving continuous improvement and innovation in quality, service and value for money across the existing range. Leading on innovation and development in existing ranges and in potential future food brand extension, you’ll use your passion for food and your awareness of food trends to ensure our food ranges are best in class, so that they delight and satisfy our members, and introduce potential members to the Slimming World brand. About you… We’d love to hear from you if you: have proven experience of working with food industry manufacturing, supply and retail partners, working through the team to monitor service, costs and effective quality control have an excellent understanding of the technical aspects of food manufacture are confident in managing commercial relationships with third parties, negotiating contracts and terms when required are a people leader with experience of building a team, managing performance and development of team members are a passionate foodie who stays up to date with technical and commercial developments in the food industry, and with the latest food trends have experience of recipe creation and development (and ideally you’ll be a keen cook yourself) have excellent strategic skills, with the experience of planning, launching and developing new business initiatives and delivering exceptional results thrive within dynamic, forward-thinking and innovative teams demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills in all that you do, including presenting at board level can quickly build rapport, engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders at all levels. Some travel to our commercial partners will be required as part of this role, which may include overnight stays. How to apply If you love the sound of this role and want to work within a friendly and supportive team: click ‘ Apply for this job ’ at the top of this page complete a few questions upload your CV (check it is less than 10MB before uploading) upload a cover letter telling us about you and what has led you to apply for the role, and your current salary. More important information about the application process: if you need any adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please contact Shawna in the HR team by emailing [email protected] or phone us on 0344 892 0400 please have a read of Our Privacy Promise More reasons why you'll love it here At Slimming World, we pride ourselves on our caring, performance-orientated culture - a culture based on respect for every individual, mutual trust, genuine warmth, care and kindness. We invest in our people and your personal development is extremely important to us - we aim to support you in achieving your full potential whatever your role in the company. When you join us, you'll also receive a generous rewards package including: a personalised induction and training programme company car or car allowance BUPA private medical insurance and annual health assessment Life assurance cover option to work from home one day a week opportunity to earn an annual performance-related bonus Family friendly leave - enhanced pay onsite gym, free exercise classes, cycle to work scheme and discounted treatments at our gorgeous on site salon: Hair & Beauty subsidised restaurant - serving delicious, homemade food each day regular social events free 12-week Slimming World membership, both in group or online 34 days holiday a year (including bank holidays) apply to work a nine-day fortnight (earning an extra day off every two weeks) Click here to see a glimpse of the work we do and the fun we have working together Thank you and good luck with your application, we can’t wait to hear from you