Senior Support Office Manager - Hygiene in Bradford

The Senior Support Office Manager- Hygiene is a brand new position which will play a key role in raising the profile of Hygiene across our stores as our new priority. 

They will continually review cleaning tasks and their frequency across the board to ensure that every element of Hygiene has focus therefore driving excellent standards. 

In addition, they will oversee third party cleaning contracts making the providers accountable for their work, supporting the stores and bringing consistently high levels of service. The post holder will become our subject matter expert in Hygiene and work with internal stakeholders and external parties to ensure stores have the right tools to do the job.

The successful candidate will report to the Head of Support Office.

This role is based at our Head Office in Bradford and is a full-time, permanent position, based on a 4 day working week and 13x 6 hour Saturdays per annum. Applicants should reside within a reasonable commuting distance from the office. They may also be required to visit stores across the estate to validate that our standards are being met. 

Key Responsibilities;

• Driving customer confidence in the hygiene standards of our stores making customers want to shop at Morrisons

• Working with key stakeholders to determine resources available and required to deliver in the area of hygiene

• Owning and governing the Company’s Hygiene agenda

• Review and determine whether store cleaning activities are fit for purpose and always work towards making things better for customers and simpler for colleagues, prioritising and challenging where this is not the case

• Embed a culture amongst colleagues where everyone understands their own responsibilities and have the confidence to take action where needed

• Develops sustainable long term ways of working 

• A strong appreciation of hygiene, food safety and quality processes in supermarkets or similar at a large organisation involved in food making, at management level, is highly desirable. 

• A drive to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness and bring others onboard with this view and plan

• A significant commercial awareness

• Innovative free thinker – finds better ways of executing tasks, an ability to see ‘the bigger picture’

• Strong interpersonal skills – ability to negotiate and influence a range of stakeholders and challenge the norm

• Able to produce clear and meaningful reports and business plans

• Should reside within a reasonable distance from the Bradford office and feel comfortable to travel as needed within the role

Our aim to offer more of what matters extends to our employees too. Join us and you can expect to enjoy great career prospects and a very competitive pay and benefits package. In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a discount card for you plus two more for friends or family members giving you 10% off your shopping in Morrisons. We also offer company share options, a highly competitive pension scheme, Life Assurance and more besides.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.