Site Excellence Lead

SITE EXCELLENCE LEAD – N&H Location Nicholas & Haris, Salisbury, SP2 7PU Shift Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm Salary Competitive with Opportunities for Growth We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as Site Excellence Lead at Nicholas & Harris, part of Finsbury Food Group. This is a particularly exciting time to join our Salisbury site.

With significant investment in new manufacturing technology, automation, and capability, we are continuing to evolve how we operate and build for the future. Alongside over 180 years of heritage in craft baking, we’re looking for a confident and collaborative leader who can help turn this investment and opportunity into sustainable operational performance.

You’ll be a strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving capability, comfortable challenging the status quo, influencing senior stakeholders, and developing others to drive meaningful change. About the Role! As our Site Excellence Lead , you’ll shape and embed our Excellence strategy across the site, working closely with the Site Leadership Team and leaders across Manufacturing, Engineering, Technical and our wider support functions.

A key focus will be building capability within our leaders and teams ; coaching, challenging, and supporting others to identify opportunities, solve problems and take ownership for sustainable improvement. Bringing together people, processes, and data, you’ll help drive improvements across safety, quality, service, cost, people, and sustainability, ensuring activity delivers tangible and lasting business value.

This is What You’ll Actually Do! You’ll lead and facilitate the deployment of MARA, Finsbury’s management system , while building in-house Continuous Improvement capability through Lean, Excellence and Practical Process Improvement (PPI) training, coaching and structured problem solving. Working cross-functionally, you’ll use data and insight to identify and deliver improvement opportunities across labour, materials, overheads, and wider operational performance.

You’ll coach and influence leaders at all levels, strengthening problem-solving capability, accountability, and ownership across the site. Working closely with Engineering and Operations, you’ll also support the implementation and sustainability of Asset Care (TPM), Process Blueprint and Leader Standard Work, ensuring improvements are embedded, sustained, and owned by the relevant teams.

You’ll share learning and best practice across the wider Finsbury Food Group Excellence community and provide clear updates on progress and business impact. Above all, you’ll act as a change leader and coach , helping make continuous improvement part of everyday leadership and decision making across the site. Ideally This is You!

Essential: Proven Continuous Improvement, Lean or Process Improvement experience within manufacturing. Strong track record of delivering sustainable change and measurable operational improvement. Experience leading and facilitating cross-functional improvement activity. Strong coaching, influencing and communication skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.

Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability. Proactive, resilient, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment undergoing change. Desirable: CI experience within food manufacturing or FMCG. Experience implementing Lean management systems and tools. Knowledge of MARA, TRACC or an equivalent CI framework.

Experience of Asset Care / TPM and / or Six Sigma methodologies. Relevant CI / Lean qualification. Experience developing CI capability in others. What’s in it for you! Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival! Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees Death in Service Benefit Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families) Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!

Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependant) Employee Recognition Awards Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!) An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and our people are fundamental to achieving that. For the right person, this is an opportunity to have a real impact; shaping how the site operates, developing the capability of its leaders and teams, and embedding improvements that deliver sustainable results.

If you’re passionate about operational excellence, developing people and turning improvement opportunities into lasting change, we’d love to hear from you.