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Location

Lincoln, Lincolnshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Reporting to the Agriculture Director ensuring we adhere to standards in terms of industry compliance

Manages our audit team as an independent team who bring true impartiality to the farm audits and develops and owns a set of performance metrics at producer level and total level that are shared monthly with senior management.

Key Accountabilities of the role:-

• Provide Agriculture input, data, and communication between Technical, Ops & Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing.
• Drives continuous improvement of working processes & practices, providing feedback and challenge to the business on a bi-annual basis.
• Manage the internal audit team ensuring independence, objectivity, and impartiality for all the farm audits.
• Conducts quarterly on farm review with all auditors to ensure consistency of delivery and performance to required standards.
• Ensure the integrity, completeness and consistency of all data created from the audits and develops, owns and shares performance metrics.
• Owns monthly KPI’s, working in collaboration with the performance managers to ensure the data is used to drive improvement in producer margins.
• Manage and ensure compliance across the producer base to all industry code of practice, assessments, and training requirements: Lion Code, RSPCA assured, Defra and Organic bodies.
• Ensures compliance to Retailer and Brand standards across the producer base.
• Ensure all industry and retailer audits are completed to the agreed schedule.
• Maintain internal farm policy documentation.
• Collation, management, and compliance to Ethical Trading requirements: new supplier SAQ, bi-annual farm ethical audit and producer training programme across the producer base.

About you:-

Desirable:-

Degree in Agriculture, sustainability or related subject

Experience within the agriculture industry or sustainability sector relating to agriculture.

The Company:-

Noble Foods is a family-owned company which began in 1920 and includes successful milling, poultry, agriculture, and consumer foods businesses. Within this, Noble Foods owns several well known brands, including the UK’s biggest free-range egg brand, The Happy Egg Co, Big & Fresh and Purely Organic.

In a recent survey by Best Companies we were rated as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in the Food and Drink industry. 

Benefits:-

• Company Car
• Service Awards
• Enhanced paternity and maternity
• Free life insurance
• Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme
• Access to Perkbox with a variety of discounts including a monthly freebie from Greggs or Café Nero
• Free turkey at Christmas to feed the family
• Discounted eggs and chicken
• A Celebration day after 1 years service enjoy an extra day off to celebrate a life event, such as your birthday
• Access to DigiCare + - Annual Health Check, Digital GP Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Health Opinion and Mental Health Consultations.
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Free Eye Test every two years
• Discounted mobile phone contracts
• Share in our success with the People Partnership - after 6 months service you will be eligible for a yearly bonus
• Additional Allowances for First Aiders and Mental Health First Aiders
• Wellness programme
• Employee Charity Matching Scheme

Interested? If you wish to apply for this role, please click on the apply button with a copy of your up-to-date CV. Due to the high number of candidates applying who have visa requirements, we would like to provide advance notice that we are currently unable to progress with any candidate who does not have a full right to work in the UK without dependant or sponsorship requirements.

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