Job Description

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, employing over 14,000 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals. In FY24, we generated revenues of 1.8bn.


Our mission is to make every day taste better.





This role is based in Leeds with flexibility to work Monday to Thursday, four days a week, and travel primarily across the Yorkshire region, with occasional national travel.

What you'll be doing

We are looking for our next Performance and Careers Manager to join our award-winning Talent, Development & Inclusion team. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our workforce, managing our day-to-day performance and talent management approaches, including processes, data and insight, systems and initiatives to meet our organisational capability priorities.





You will manage our established performance and career cycle, our investment in talent centred initiatives and bring a data driven mindset to our performance and talent processes. Using data and insight you will inform talent planning and measure impact to build workforce capabilities and colleague engagement for the future. This is an exciting opportunity to have a real impact.





Key accountabilities include:


Performance & Career Management: Manage and enhance our performance management approach to enable colleague engagement, growth and productivity Talent & Performance Solutions: Develop and maintain our performance and career platform, enhancing its capabilities and ensuring that it continues to meet our organisational needs Talent Review: Supporting and enabling our annual talent review process, ensuring we build internal skills in calibration and talent assessment so we can identify emerging talent and build succession strength Talent Development: Manage our suite of talent and career tools to support development and to attract, retain, and progress top talent across our organisation Data and Insight: Manage and interrogate data, identify and analyse trends and draw insights which informs and shapes our Performance, Talent and Inclusion processes

What we're looking for

We are looking for someone with experience of Performance and Talent Management across a large complex organisation, who understands and has applied talent assessment methodology on scale. You'll also bring experience of how to leverage the latest thinking and best practice in the assessment of potential.


You'll have expertise and strong literacy in managing robust data, be that it's collection, analysis or interpretation. Skilled at using data tools such as Excel, and business intelligence/visualisation tools such as Qlik and/or Power BI, along with excellent attention to detail and a passion for quality, your skills will help shape future priorities.


Experience of having managed talent software, performance systems, reporting suites and working with internal IT teams and third-party software developers would be beneficial.

What you'll get in return

In return, you'll be joining an award winning and high performing team, that's invested in one another. You'll enjoy a flexible work schedule, working Monday to Thursday, 4 days per week. You'll be part of an innovative team, committed to excellence. We offer professional growth, exposure and meaningful work that makes a difference. With a supportive culture, and an inclusive environment where your contributions are valued, your voice will be heard, and you can make a real difference. We've an established development, performance and career offer for colleagues, known as Grow with Greencore and we are truly invested in enabling our colleagues to succeed. If this seems like the team and business for you then reach out to find out more.


At Greencore, we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.





Our benefits include:


Competitive salary 25 days holiday + bank holidays Pension up to 8% matched Life insurance up to 4x salary Company share save scheme Greencore Qualifications Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

If you're ready to grow your impact and be part of a team that's truly shaping the future of food and careers, apply today.