Food service development manager in High Wycombe

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Job Family Group: Retail Group

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Growing the good credentials and culture within BP; a true foodie with a passion to deliver quality and freshness through market leading innovation.
• You will be developing both food & coffee for Wild Bean Café UK - A strong understanding and experience in developing drinks in coffee and iced drinks innovation, along with food within café/hospitality is critical to success in this role.
• Utilize Agility core practices to develop, implement, and support the delivery of new food service offerings and improvements, working closely with category, technical & operations.
• Apply Analytical Thinking and Customer data knowledge to identify market trends, customer needs, and performance gaps within the food service sector, with a close lens on competitive set.
• Develop and implement strategies that demonstrate alignment with category, demonstrating a strong understanding of Commercial Acumen, ensuring profitability and return on investment for food service initiatives through not only quality products but labour, consumables.
• Effectively communicate food service strategies, plans, and results to internal and external stakeholders through strong Communication skills.
• Champion Customer centric thinking, ensuring all food service developments prioritise and enhance the customer experience.
• Facilitate Digital Collaboration within cross-functional teams to streamline food service development processes.
• Maintain and expand Industry knowledge and advocacy within the food service and retail sectors, identifying standard methodologies and competitive advantages.
• Promote Knowledge Sharing across the organization regarding food service innovations, successes, and lessons learned.
• Execute Negotiation planning and preparation for supplier contracts and partnership agreements relevant to food service.
• Cultivate strong Partner relationship management with key food service suppliers and external collaborators.
• Lead and optimize Retail Category Management for food service products, ensuring a compelling and profitable assortment by working collaboratively with the category team.
• Drive Retail territory development initiatives focused on growing formats and optimizing food service offerings across BP sites.
• Develop and deliver effective Retail training skills programs to ensure consistent execution of food service standards and strategies.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in food service development or a related field within a retail, café, hospitality environment.
• Shown ability to apply Agility core practices in project management and product development.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data interpretation and visualization.
• Excellent commercial competence with a track record of delivering profitable growth through quality food offerings.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A customer-centric mentality with a deep understanding of customer needs and preferences.
• Proficiency in digital collaboration tools and platforms.
• In-depth Industry knowledge and advocacy within the food service and retail sectors.
• Experience in negotiation planning and preparation, and partner relationship management.
• Solid understanding of Retail Category Management principles.
• Experience in Retail territory development and implementing retail training programs.

Why join us?

Wild Bean Café UK is on a mission to deliver great quality, fresh food and coffee every day to your customers; there hasn't been a more exciting time to join! At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement: Up to 25% 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, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Continued Learning, Continuous Improvement, Creativity and Innovation, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualisation 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.

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