Unbeatable Quality Trainer

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations' worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 141 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes. Title: Unbeatable Quality Trainer

Function: Quality

Location: Bolton – Hybrid

Salary: Competitive

Join Us as an Unbeatable Quality Trainer!

At Warburtons, quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our strategy focuses on delivering unbeatable freshness, consistent excellence, and trusted products through continuous improvement and strong partnerships. We’re committed to baking the best for every customer, every day.

Are you passionate about empowering people through training? In this exciting role, you'll drive the design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of technical training programmes that support the Warburtons Quality Strategy and enable the delivery of unbeatable quality products. You’ll identify the right training solutions to build essential skills and knowledge across the business ensuring our teams are equipped to deliver excellence every day.

The Recipe

You’ll work closely with Operational Management to signpost available training provisions, identify skills and knowledge gaps, and design impactful training interventions. A key part of your remit will be managing the full lifecycle of the imPROVE programme, expanding its reach to include additional product platforms and ensuring all materials remain relevant and aligned with business needs.

As the primary contact for our bakery workplace assessors, you’ll ensure consistent communication, updates, and support, maintaining a robust network of assessors across the business. You’ll lead learning needs analyses, identify gaps, and develop innovative technical training solutions that are both engaging and pragmatic.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You’ll partner with subject matter experts to gather requirements and translate them into creative, business-focused training content. You’ll also organise the creation of product knowledge packs to support innovation and new product launches, working alongside UQ Managers, Innovation and Baking Technology Managers, and the Centre TLC to uphold best practices and training standards.

Delivering high-quality training courses, both existing and newly developed, up to senior management level, will be a core responsibility. You’ll ensure all logistics, documentation, and schedules are in place, and use the Learning Hub to promote and host training offerings. Post-course evaluations and classroom observations will help you maintain high delivery standards and continuously improve our training provision.

Externally, you’ll build relationships with industry bodies, stay ahead of bakery trends, and explore how technology can enhance our training. You’ll advise the Head of Analysis, Regulatory and Training on emerging technologies and may develop business cases to support new initiatives.

Finally, working with the Centre Quality SLT and function Heads, you’ll support the identification of talent, recommend development opportunities, and ensure our technical training provision supports long-term business goals.

Essential Ingredients

• Excellent technical bakery knowledge, preferably with a Food Technology/Technical qualification HND / BSc level or equivalent.
• Substantive evidence of working within a technical role at a site, including experience of working within a senior management team.
• Experience of managing projects and stakeholder management.
• A thorough and in-depth understanding of the Chorleywood bread making process.
• Understanding of the Apprenticeship standards and T Levels relevant to the technical function.
• Experience in training design and delivery: Ability to design innovative and creative solutions
• Excellent communication skills: Articulate, influential; persuasive; impactful verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship builder- establishing credibility with both internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Strong requirements gathering skills with the ability to identify the key messages.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications to enable the design and delivery of professional training materials and schedules.
• Strong team player able to work effectively with diverse groups.
• Strong mentor skills with experience of motivating people both directly and indirectly.
• Commercial awareness of the balance between the cost of manufacturing and quality.
• Ability to assimilate the facts and make decisions. Be accountable for decisions made.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
  
  

Extra Dough

At last and by no means least, you will want to know what your breads worth:

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us and we know it will be to you so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave.
• Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
• Life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service
  
  

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.