Overview
Address: England, GB, SP2 7PU
Location: Nicholas & Haris, Salisbury, SP2 7PU
Shift: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
Salary: Competitive with Opportunities for Growth
We’re looking for a Site Excellence Lead to champion our Excellence Strategy and embed a culture of continuous improvement across our Salisbury site. Nicholas & Harris is part of the Finsbury Food Group and has over 180 years of heritage in craft baking.
Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards and build long-term relationships within the foodservice channel. Finsbury offer a wide range of bakery products and are a leading frozen supplier into the Foodservice sector.
About the Role
As Site Excellence Lead, you will facilitate the development and implementation of our Finsbury Excellence Strategy, using lean principles and external benchmarking to deliver sustainable improvements. Reporting to the Site Lead, you’ll work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive cultural change, improve decision-making, and achieve measurable ROI on all improvement activities.
You’ll lead cross-functional projects focused on Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, People, and Sustainability, ensuring improvements are embedded and sustained. Acting as a coach and mentor, you’ll build in-house CI capability, design and deliver training workshops, and influence leaders at all levels to adopt best practices.
This is what you’ll actually do!
• Deploy standard tiered meeting structures and champion group standards across all site functions.
• Lead and facilitate Lean and CI projects to improve efficiency across labour, materials, and overheads.
• Design and deliver training and workshops to upskill teams and embed continuous improvement.
• Drive cultural change by challenging waste and promoting value-adding interventions.
• Use data and BI systems to identify opportunities, validate results, and report progress to senior forums.
• Share best practices across the group and support TRACC (CCi maturity tool) maturity improvements.
• Act as a change agent, fostering an action-oriented mindset and strong cross-functional collaboration.
Ideally this is you!
Essential:
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in a leadership role within manufacturing.
• Proven track record in change management and delivering sustainable improvement.
• Strong influencing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interpret data and drive data-led decision-making.
• Highly organised, proactive, and adaptable to changing business needs.
Desirable:
• CI/Lean qualifications (e.g., Green/Black Belt).
• Experience with TRACC or similar CI platforms.
• Background in food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Familiarity with bakery processes and Six Sigma/SPC techniques.
Why Join Us?
Our vision is to be the UK’s leading specialty bakery group. We invest in our people because your success drives ours. If you’re passionate about operational excellence, thrive on collaboration, and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us shape the future of excellence at Nicholas & Harris!
What’s in it for you?
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!