Community Coordinator

Join the Samworth Brothers Family!

Working for The Cornwall Bakery, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4th generation family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
• Training and Progression opportunities
• Hybrid working South West
• 3 x days per week

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Community Coordinator, the role has been created to help further build and deliver our community engagement strategy to bring our purpose of ‘Doing GOOD things with GREAT food to life with our local communities. Your role as Community Coordinator puts you right at the heart of our group community initiatives. You will primarily be focused on organising the team to ensure smooth delivery of key projects focusing on reducing food insecurity, improve health & wellbeing and creating opportunities for our colleagues.

There will also be lots of opportunities to be hands on within our communities, dealing directly with community projects, local authorities/organisations and building a network across the group to enable us to support any initiatives that arise from such contacts. Within the group, we will rely on you to drive engagement with colleagues to help support our role within the community and to be a positive influence on others. Communication, both in terms of what is required to support our community work and to help share the work we are doing is also key.

You will build great relationships across the group and with appropriate external contacts that allow us to extend our reach in line with the wider responsible business strategy. Embodying the company values, you will be passionate about people and comfortable interacting at different levels. A solid understanding of how the business operates and an appreciation of the commercial implications of any support within our local communities will be vital to ensure you are successful. Adaptable and proactive, you will be comfortable working in a role that is varied and requires you to explore new opportunities and build new relationships. The nature of the role will often require swift action and as a result you must be comfortable feeling empowered to make decisions.

The Right Person

We are one big team and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.

• Highly organised, self motivated and ability to manage own priorities and time effectively
• Approachable and able to engage easily with others. Builds strong relationships.
• A role model for great behaviours
• Highest regard, caring and respect for people
• Perceptive, intuitive, curious and inquiring
• Experience of working in FMCG is desirable

The Company

The Cornwall Bakery is the home of the famous Ginsters Cornish Pasty as well as a range of other high quality savoury pastry products. We are a large employer in the South West as well as being part of a national company that is still a family owned business, Samworth Brothers. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative