Fresh Food Manager

Job description

At Morrisons, we are proud to be The Market Street Grocer. Market Street is the jewel in our crown; a bustling, sensory market experience where fresh food is prepared by specialists every single day. As a Fresh Food Manager, you won't be stuck behind a desk. You'll be the visionary leader out on the floor, orchestrating stunning food displays, and keeping that legendary market-day energy alive.

Reporting into the Store Manager, you'll take full operational and commercial ownership of the your department. Your main objective is to drive outstanding food quality, theatre, and availability across fresh produce and chilled.

What you'll be doing day-to-day:

• Mastering the Commercials: Owning fresh food sales, production planning, intricate stock control, and labour allocation to maximize yield and minimize food waste.
• Creating Retail Theatre: Driving impeccable visual merchandising across fresh food counters and bays to showcase fresh produce at its absolute best.
• Enforcing Food Safety: Maintaining top-tier Food Hygiene Ratings, strict legal compliance, and temperature control across multiple preparation and display environments.
• Bringing Fresh Food to Life: Encouraging your team to engage with customers, share culinary expertise, and deliver an authentic "shopkeeper" experience.

About you

You are a high-energy leader passionate about the heritage, quality, and theatre of fresh food retail.

• Commercial Mindset: Strong understanding of production forecasting, yield management, seasonal planning, and handling short-life stock.
• Proven Leadership: Experience in high-volume fresh food retail, commercial catering, food production, or hospitality management where fresh food prep is key.
• Hands-on Attitude: You thrive on the fast-paced energy of the morning set-up and love interacting with colleagues and customers.
• Superb Relationship Builder: Able to command respect from skilled craftspeople and collaborate tightly with store leadership.

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

About us

We are a team of over 90,000 down-to-earth people. Uniquely, we are the UK's second-largest food manufacturer and own our entire supply chain; giving you incredibly diverse career paths and development opportunities.

More Perks:

• Competitive Salary: Discussed early in the process to match your experience.
• Colleague Discount: 15% staff discount for you, 10% for a nominated friend/family member.
• Time Off: 33 days annual leave.
• Future Growth: Access to our University-accredited Sir Ken Morrison Leadership School programme.
• Healthcare & Pension: Highly competitive pension scheme and private healthcare.
• Family Support: Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• My Morri Rewards: Instant discounts, cashback, and perks on everyday dining and leisure.

Reward & Benefits

We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.

• Rewarding success
  
  We believe success should be rewarded. So, from a simple thank you to our well-deserved recognition awards, we'll show you how much we value you. We care for our colleagues. It's how we keep hold of the best talent.
• Pay
  
  Morrisons wouldn't be what it is without our amazing colleagues, which is why we offer competitive salaries to ensure we attract and retain the best.
• Colleague discounts
  
  We operate one of the most generous colleague discount schemes in food retail, and currently offer two discount cards, one for you and one for your family or friend. You will be eligible for a 15% discount on all eligible purchases and your friend or family will be eligible for up to 10% discount.
• Holidays
  
  We know how important it is to take time off to relax and unwind. So, to help you achieve a healthy work/life balance, you'll enjoy at least 28 days of holiday a year pro rata (including public holidays). Your holiday will increase depending on your length of service, too.
• Pension
  
  We have a competitive pension scheme that all our colleagues can join.
• Life assurance
  
  In case the worst should happen, we offer a Life Assurance Scheme, more commonly known as a 'Death in Service' benefit. All our colleagues are entitled to this benefit from their first day of permanent employment with us, subject to eligibility rules.
• Money off
  
  Not only will you enjoy 15% off your Morrisons shopping, you'll have access to discount and cashback offers from over 1,500 retailers including everything from fashion and holidays to utilities and electronics. All of our sites offer subsidised meals too.
• Flexible benefits
  
  We offer a range of flexible, voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits that can help you save on your tax and National Insurance. These include:
  
  
  • Holiday buy scheme
  • Payroll giving
• Healthcare cash plan
  
  Our exclusive health care cash plan, provided by Sovereign Health Care, offers colleagues a helping hand with everyday health care costs. It pays tax free cash back on a range of everyday health expenses including glasses, contact lenses, dental treatment, prescription charges, physiotherapy and much more. Cover is offered at a differents levels to suit your needs, and up to 4 children are covered at no extra cost! We're pleased to be able extend the offer to colleagues' partners. Terms and conditions apply.
• Wellbeing with Vita Health
  
  At Morrisons we care about our colleagues' wellbeing, and we work with a number of organisations to provide information, advice and support to colleagues and their families.
  
  Our wellbeing partner Vita Health, offers free and confidential information, advice and support for all our colleagues and households 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, on all wellbeing matters including mental and physical health. They also provide a management support helpline Monday to Friday.
• Aviva Digital GP and wellbeing
  
  We provide colleagues with free access to Aviva's Digital GP and Aviva Wellbeing app services. Colleagues can book can book unlimited video consultations with an NHS-registered, private GP. To help colleagues when they need it most, It's a 24 hour service. Colleague's children are also covered up to age 16.
• Addiction treatment
  
  We're working with the team at the UK Addiction Treatment Group to support the wellbeing of our colleagues when it comes to addiction and behavioural disorders.
• Salary finance
  
  We've partnered with Salary Finance to provide all colleagues with access to simple, useful financial education, as well as access to loans at competitive and affordable rates, repaid directly from pay.
• Family Friendly benefits
  
  
  • Maternity and Adoption Pay: Full pay for the first 26 weeks of maternity and adoption leave.
  • Paternity Leave: Up to 4 weeks of paternity leave, allowing flexibility within 52 weeks of the birth or placement.
  • Neonatal Leave: An additional week of leave for every week the baby spends in neonatal care, up to the original due date, with a maximum of 12 weeks.
  • Fertility Leave: Up to five days of paid leave per cycle for prospective mothers undergoing treatment, and up to two days of paid leave for partners

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High Wycombe, United Kingdom, HP13 5XX