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Job Title: Commercial Manager
Reporting To: Head of Retail, Wholesale & Food Service
Salary Range: £36,000 - £38,000 (dependent upon experience)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: This is a field‑based role that can be based anywhere in the UK. You’ll manage several large accounts, with regular visits to their headquarters and key events. On average national travel can be expected a couple of times per week.
Working days/hours per week: 35 per week, Monday - Friday, 9am – 5pm
Requirements: As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent criminal records.
Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste”.
The Felix Project and FareShare have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry.
The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives.
The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK.
Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.
Purpose of the Job
Commercial Manager will identify, develop and manage top food partners relationships and strengthen existing business relationships with companies in the food industry, generating value for the partner and to secure growing and sustainable volumes of surplus food for the FareShare Network. For designated top food partners, you will be their day-to-day point of contact with regular face to face contact at all levels.
You will undertake structured, strategic account management, leading and coordinating FareShare’s engagement across our organisation. This will mean agreeing and executing a bespoke joint business plan with each account to get more food, money and strategic support. You will also feedback on ways that we can better support our accounts and improve our services to them. You will work directly and be on-site with top food partners to help identify and overcome the barriers which exist to giving surplus food to people in need as well as increasing money and strategic resource.
You will also be required to work closely with FareShare colleagues within FareShare and across the UK in our partner organisations in order to identify and understand opportunities for creating mutual and shared value.
Duties and Responsibilities
Partnership Management
• Contribute to the development of consistent, structured Joint Business plans with
designated accounts that take into account food, funding and other strategic initiatives to drive growth in food, money and other strategic resources
• Work on behalf of the account to develop and embed services relevant to the account and agreed through the joint business plan – e.g. employability or store level redistribution
• Execute joint business plans and report internally and externally on progress.
• Research and understand your accounts, including key ESG initiatives, waste streams, key personnel within the organisation that will help drive its success and engage the relevant internal departments through both desked based research and face to face contact.
• Proactively drive account forwards and progress these relationships with regular on-site visits and linking FareShare exec with key contacts.
• Keep up to date with industry and charity insights and ensure this is reflected back strategically across ways of working and account management.
Project and Initiative Management
• Be responsible for managing and communicating key projects and initiatives to increase food volumes and strategic value, securing support from a range of stakeholders within food partners and across the FareShare network.
• Work closely with Supply Chain and Logistics, Operations and Network Development teams with the aim of optimising food out to our network
• Develop and lead FareShare cross-departmental strategic activity to enable us to derive maximum value from key food partners including liaising with fundraising, marketing and volunteering teams.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
We deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Food Project Coordinator
This role will primarily coordinate our growing food club project, Bristol Goods, but will also provide support for our other services that utilize food to engage people in support and build community connections.
Caring in Bristol has a legacy of food-based projects; from our inception as Caring at Christmas, through to Cheers Drive, our pandemic response service. We have a fantastic network in the city’s food and hospitality sector which enables us to work in creative ways to alleviate housing insecurity.
As Food Project Coordinator, you will play a central role in organising our food club operations and ensuring Caring in Bristol upholds food safety standards. A significant part of the role will be centred around building relationships with our food club members and the volunteers that help deliver the service.
The postholder will also have the opportunity to contribute to other food-centred activity within the charity, including food provided to our young people’s services and Caring at Christmas.
Key responsibilities
The workload for the role is split in approximately the proportions:
~60% of the role
Food logistics and coordination
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Support the Senior Project Coordinator to oversee the sourcing, supply and distribution of food, ensuring a consistent and balanced provision of fresh and ambient products for service users each week. This includes driving the Caring in Bristol van (full UK driving licence essential).
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Coordinate and monitor the stock of food, ensuring there’s always sufficient stock levels to cover all the food clubs
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Coordinate the weekly Fareshare delivery and sorting/preparation of food in line with organisational procedures
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Support the Bristol Goods Team to uphold food safety management within the organisation, ensuring our warehouse space is adequately clean and organised at all times
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Manage Bristol Goods volunteers on shift to ensure they understand how to carry out their role safely, and enjoy their experience
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Supervise the on-site running of the food clubs on a Rota basis with other Caring in Bristol staff. This does involve cash handling and taking payments.
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Support Senior Project Coordinator to form working relationships with our food suppliers and food sector contacts, and seek out potential new opportunities that could benefit the resilience and breadth of Caring in Bristol’s food offer
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Supporting the delivery of our other food projects including Bristol Youth Goods.
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Follow organisational safeguarding, health and safety, data protection, COSSH and van procedures.
~30% of the role
Food Club Member Support
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Interact with members and signpost them to relevant services within Caring in Bristol, in the local community, and city wide.
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Keep up to date with support services across the city to provide appropriate signposting and referrals.
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Provide support and build relationships with Food Club members through informal check-ins and identify those who may be experiencing challenges impacting their housing or wellbeing. Provide appropriate assistance, including but not limited to, form filling, applying to external volunteering opportunities or training and referring to additional services.
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Uphold the safety and safeguarding of members in the delivery and development of the Bristol Goods service.
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Record members’ attendance, support provided and engagement on our database in line with data protection policies and regulations.
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Take ownership of our community noticeboard, sharing opportunities and support options in the area.
~10% of the role
Other Responsibilities
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Organisational development work, including; attendance at team meetings, safeguarding reviews and participating in the volunteer support and training.
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Follow Caring in Bristol policies and procedures and observe our Code of Conduct.
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Actively participate in and attend supervisions, reflective practice, annual appraisal processes and identified training.
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Promote the aims and objectives of the charity and present a positive image of Caring in Bristol through good public relations, communications with visitors, young people, guests, people who use our services and the local community.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.