Head of Commercial Projects

Meadow Foods

Head of Commercial Projects

Chester, Cheshire

£60,000 to £90,000 + Car + Benefits + Bonus 

Job Context:

Meadow Foods is the UK’s largest independently owned dairy group, supplying added-value ingredients to the food industry across a variety of product categories including: Confectionary Ingredients, Butter & Butteroils, Fresh Ingredients and Milk Solutions. The company - founded in 1992 - has grown rapidly through a blend of organic growth and M&A activity and now operates from 3 factories in Chester, Peterborough and Holme-on-Spalding Moor and employs more than 350 people. In September 2018 Meadow Foods received strategic investment from Exponent PE, one of the UK’s leading private equity firms.

Job Purpose:

An opportunity in a newly developed role for an ambitious and focussed skilled project manager with a keen interest in scoping new business opportunities. The role will involve producing high quality business cases to inform the senior executive of potential partnership, investment and M&A decisions. The role will also include negotiating and running standalone commercial projects and reporting into the executive team.

• Reporting into the Chief Commercial Officer
• Responsible for developing and supporting unique business projects and opportunities across our existing customer base and within customer Joint Business Plans
• Providing clear evidence and advice to senior stakeholders in assessing projects and acquisitions
• Work with the Head of Strategic Operations to provide detailed commercial proposals on key operational projects
• Play a crucial role in the negotiation process and delivery of commercial projects
• Provide project leadership of new and ongoing internal commercial initiatives
• Researching trends that may/will affect our industry and pro-actively identifying strategic opportunities and threats to the business
• Assist in the production of key investment outputs including offer letters, heads of terms, investment papers, presentation documents and non-disclosure agreements
• Aid the Chief Financial Officer with Post-implementation reviews for completed deals and projects

Must be:

• A clear and confident communicator, capable of influencing others
• A resourceful and an innovative thinker
• Previous Corporate Finance M&A experience
• Commercial and analytical with the ability to learn quickly and work well under pressure
• Able to brief and set clear expectations
• Driven to learn, develop and make clear progress in a new role
• Highly organised
• Strong in analysing financial data
• Able to identify their own weaknesses and proactively work on them
• Experienced in scoping and delivering new projects
• Experienced in providing commercial advice to senior management
• Experienced in a food manufacturing environment, as a preference
• Skilled at IT, especially Excel and PowerPoint

• Able to develop strong working relationships across internal teams from Operations to Sales

PS Resourcing is the retained consultant for this assignment therefore all third party applications will be forwarded to PS Resourcing for their consideration.

For further information please contact our retained consultant David Webster at PS Resourcing