Jobs at Finsbury Food Group

Develop and deliver insight-driven category strategies using shopper, market, and competitor data. Build relationships with retail partners, translate data into commercial recommendations, and influence ranging, merchandising, pricing, and promotional decisions. Collaborate with brand, sales, and development teams while supporting innovation, stakeholder communication, talent development, and high-quality delivery.

Lead finance business partnering for a manufacturing site, overseeing reporting, forecasting, budgeting, month-end, financial controls, cost analysis, payroll, stock, cash, EBITDA, and capital expenditure. Partner with operational leaders to improve performance, manage risks, support strategic projects, and drive continuous improvement. Manage and develop one direct report while providing financial guidance to finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Leads all capital investment and improvement projects across a bakery manufacturing site, from concept and procurement through installation, commissioning, and handover. Manages budgets, forecasts, ROI, suppliers, contractors, risks, compliance, and stakeholder engagement. Develops the site’s long-term capital investment plan, coordinates live installations, supports engineering asset care, and drives automation and continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Leads the governance, prioritization, and delivery of a multi-site capital expenditure portfolio across manufacturing operations. Develops long-term investment strategy, oversees budgets, milestones, risks, compliance, and benefits realization, and standardizes project governance and stage-gate controls. Partners with Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and site teams while coaching project managers and supporting automation, sustainability, infrastructure, and operational improvement investments.

Own the commercial performance and day-to-day relationship for a major UK grocery retailer. Responsibilities include developing business plans, managing P&L, forecasting, negotiating pricing and promotions, driving product development projects, identifying growth opportunities, resolving escalations, and collaborating with NPD, Marketing, Finance, Technical, and bakery site teams to deliver profitable account growth.

Leads Finsbury Food Group’s Out of Home growth strategy across foodservice, QSR, travel, leisure, and emerging channels. Owns strategic customer relationships, new business acquisition, commercial propositions, negotiations, sales and profit targets, forecasting, budgeting, and market development. Manages the End User and New Business Manager, partners with senior stakeholders, and collaborates with Category, Innovation, NPD, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to deliver sustainable growth.

Own site-wide automation systems, including PLCs, robotics, vision systems, control architecture, backups, version control, and SCADA/MES integration. Lead root cause analysis, reliability improvements, programming standards, OEE reporting, capital project commissioning, machine safety, and technical governance. Collaborate with engineering, operations, IT, and cross-functional teams while coaching engineers and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and food safety requirements.

Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and data models; build SQL-based ETL processes and integrations; support SQL Server databases; and improve master data governance and quality. The role partners with stakeholders across business functions to translate requirements into reliable reporting solutions, automate processes, and enable data-driven decision-making.

Own the commercial performance and customer relationship for a major UK grocery retailer. Responsibilities include P&L management, forecasting, pricing and promotion negotiations, account growth, product development project oversight, cross-functional coordination, issue resolution, and delivery of sales, profit, forecast accuracy, launch, and account growth KPIs.

Lead gluten-free new and existing product development from concept through launch. Coordinate customers, retailers, commercial, marketing, technical, production, suppliers, and purchasing teams. Manage critical paths, trials, documentation, packaging approvals, food safety, compliance, cost reduction, product reviews, and post-launch improvements while ensuring products meet customer requirements, quality standards, timelines, and commercial objectives.

Leads end-to-end food product development from concept through launch, managing the site development plan, NPD projects, customer relationships, cross-functional collaboration, quality, innovation, budgets, risks, and timelines. Oversees and develops a team while ensuring products meet customer expectations, commercial goals, quality standards, and business strategy. Partners with Technical, Operations, Commercial, Brand, Procurement, and Manufacturing teams to deliver commercially viable products.

Manage finance for a food manufacturing site, partnering with operational leaders on reporting, budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, cost control, financial analysis, capital investment, and continuous improvement. Monitor performance metrics including payroll, stock, cash, EBITDA, and capital expenditure. Maintain financial controls and compliance while advising stakeholders, managing one direct report, and supporting strategic operational decisions.