Overview of Role

📍 Location: Newcastle-under-Lyme
🏠 Place of Work: Allied Bakeries Stoke (full-time on-site role)
💰 Salary: Competitive
⏳ Hours: Monday-Friday with flexibility to respond to operational incidents outside of normal working hours

We’re looking for a driven and experienced Production Manager to join our Manufacturing team at Allied Bakeries Stoke. This is a key leadership role where you’ll be responsible for delivering performance across Safety, Quality and Efficiency in a fast-paced commercial bakery environment. You’ll lead from the front, developing high-performing teams and driving continuous improvement to ensure operational excellence across your area of responsibility.

📌 What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading your area with a strong “Safety First” mindset, ensuring a safe, compliant and high-performing environment.
• Setting consistently high standards through visible leadership, providing clear direction, coaching and support to your team.
• Taking full ownership of manufacturing performance, delivering against production, quality and cost targets.
• Championing a culture of continuous improvement, challenging ways of working to enhance performance.
• Planning proactively to ensure operational resilience, using data and performance insights to drive targeted improvements.
• Leading the delivery of site and national projects, ensuring successful implementation and ownership.
• Developing capability within your team, supporting succession planning and building a strong talent pipeline.

✅ What We’re Looking For

• Proven leadership experience in a fast-paced, results-driven manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of production operations, hygiene standards and food safety principles.
• A track record of improving performance, efficiency and operational outcomes.
• The ability to engage, motivate and develop high-performing teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with a data-led approach to decision making.
• The ability to build credibility and influence at all levels of the business.
• A proactive, resilient mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and leading change.
• Experience managing projects or delivering operational improvements is advantageous.

🎯 Why Join Us?

At Allied Bakeries, we offer a supportive and rewarding environment where you can develop your career and make a real impact. Our benefits include:

🌴 33 days annual leave
💼 Up to 10% employer pension contribution
🏥 Private healthcare and healthcare cash plan
📈 Ongoing leadership development, mentoring and career progression opportunities
🛍 Retail discounts across a wide range of brands
🚲 Cycle to Work and Electric Car Scheme
🧠 Employee Assistance Programme