📣  A bit about the role.  

This is a rare opportunity to join an exciting manufacturing business experiencing very significant growth, Butternut Box.

Butternut has big plans for expansion in the near future. As Operations Director, you lead the largest team in the business over (soon to be) multiple geographic locations. 

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you’ll be accountable for all aspects of our Production and Fulfilment teams, safety, development, standards performance and improvement.

As part of the role, you will:

• Be a key part of the Senior Leadership Team of both the Operations function and the wider business.
• Be accountable for all aspects of our Manufacturing and Fulfilment operations in the UK and the planned new site in Poland.
• Accountable for delivering operational budget/KPIs, including setting and stretching improvement targets whilst creating long-term plans to achieve them. 
• Identify and deliver improvements to our operational proposition in the key areas of Quality, Delight, Convenience and Choice.
• The development and delivery of engagement initiatives for our operational teams
• The development of our operations team includes:
• Ensuring there are clear succession plans for key roles 
• Development of a culture of continuous improvement.
• Promoting and living our values.
• Development of our operational systems to ensure we benchmark favourably in areas such as food safety, environmental health and safety, diversity and inclusion.
• Management of change programmes, including but not limited to
• Capacity increases.
• Productivity improvement.
• Energy efficiency improvements.
• Automation.

👋  A bit about you. 

• Positive
• Pragmatic
• You have high standards… close enough is not good enough.
• Determined to deliver - you get a lot done and at pace.
• Passionate about creating and promoting a people-focused culture with quality at its heart
• You lead through example with a drive to develop your team - you get a kick out of your team achieving and growing.
• Humble and approachable.
• An excellent communicator (written and verbal), including an ability to communicate with stakeholders and squad members of all levels in a warm and understanding manner.
• Creative problem solver and data-driven.
• Logical and organised - calm under pressure.
• Resilient and adaptable, happy to face the tough stuff and find a way to take your teams with you on the journey.
• You love the pace and excitement of operations.

🐶 A bit about us. 

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

 🙌 A bit about what we offer.

• 257.5 hours holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) + 8 hours extra for each year of service (up to 5 years)
• £500 personal learning & development budget 
• Butternut Box employee discount 
• Enhanced parental leave
• Flexible working hours and work from home options 
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Pre - pay day pizza, fruit, coffee and parking (free!)
• Lots of office dogs (Cleo, Paxo, Harvey, Cali, Milo and many more….)

❗️A few things to note: 

Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.

We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career, if it makes your application easier for you please feel free to complete the application form in your native language, we are really happy to translate it afterwards.

We are not looking for external agency support with this role.

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