Senior Business Analyst (Food Sourcing)
Job Description and Person Specification
Job title: Senior Business Analyst (Food Industry Sourcing)Reporting to: SauceAI Project Manager
Location: Hybrid, London or Sheffield
Contract type: 9 Months FTC, with opportunity to extend
Hours per week: 35
Salary & Grade: £54,557- £57,429
Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste”.
FareShare is a national network of 18 independent UK charitable food redistributors. Together, we provide good quality surplus food from right across the food industry to approximately 8,500 frontline charities and community groups, liberating over £150M in funds they would otherwise need to spend on food for the vital work they do to strengthen their communities.
There has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness. For more information visit our website.
FareShare is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities and as a Disability Confident Employer, we provide reasonable adjustments.
We aim to recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our commitment to strengthening communities through the convening power of food, come and join us!
The role
We (with partners) have recently secured funding to help build an AI-enabled surplus supply chain platform for the food system. Our target outcome for this work is to access new sources of Work in Progress (WIP) surplus food from within major manufacturing companies.To do this, we need to create and surface data about the demand for these products across our charity base and from innovative manufacturing projects we run, including the Coronation Food Project.
This role involves extensive travel across the UK (40-50% of your working week on average, built around a workplan you will help to develop), learning about the needs and practices of a large range of our recipient charities and getting under the skin of the work we are doing to create meals from surplus ingredients.It is a crucial role in our work to increase the rescue of surplus edible food and provide it to organisations who use it to strengthen their communities.
Through this role, you will also serve as a source of supply chain expertise to the wider organisation, helping to ensure we are embedding key learnings and improving our own internal practices in parallel to this project.
Main areas of responsibility- Identify & surface FareShare demand for work-in-progress (WIP) surplus from partner manufacturers
- Support innovation team in identifying candidate recipes and supplementary partnerships required to create a new supply of meals made from surplus liberated by the project
- Identify and document FareShare food acceptance criteria across all eligible product types
- Identify and support redesign of impacted processes to allow project to fit into FareShare operations with minimal disruption
- Train in new processes ahead of project trials
- Consider in all cases how to maximise incremental food supply from the project
- Support integration planning to hit project milestones
Person Specification
Essential Criteria- Minimum 5 years business analysis experience in a food manufacturing business, including support for complex technology projects
- Patient and supportive interviewing style and peer training skills with demonstrable results in prior projects
- Small business, start up or other innovation experience creating data sets from analogue sources and improving them over time through interaction with users, process design, and digital tools
- Able to work responsibly and accurately in a largely remote and independent role
- Experience in business process design
- Experience working with Material Requirements Planning and ERP systems
- Experience working with SalesForce and Microsoft Dynamics
- Experience in leading UAT processes and supporting end-user testers
- Experience in project and change management and understanding of key principles in both areas
- An understanding of and commitment to FareShare’s mission.
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities.
- Flexibility and collaborative style of working across FareShare and with all our stakeholders.
Application process
For any further questions on this please email recruitment@fareshare.org.
Benefits- Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel
- 28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- Employers pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, 17th February 2025 11:59pm