Systems Data Manager (Kegworth)

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping the technical agenda for our Systems Data team at Refresco? In this pivotal role, you’ll ensure the accuracy of all master data across our IT systems, enabling seamless purchasing, manufacturing, and dispatch of Refresco UK products.

This role allows regular team collaboration across multiple sites, including monthly travel to our Bridgwater site. If you’re passionate about data integrity and want to make a real impact in a fast-paced, industry-leading business, we’d love to hear from you!

Systems & Master Data Manager

Permanent – Hybrid – work 2 days from home with monthly travel to our Bridgwater site

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 5 pm and Friday 8:30 am – 4 pm

Reward & Benefits:

• £6,400 annual car allowance
• Annual 10% bonus
• Annual pay review
• Early finish on a Friday
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Employee referral scheme - earn a bonus for referring your friends or family
• GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
• Cheers – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
• Free onsite parking, and discounted products

What you’ll be doing as a Systems & Master Data Manager

To lead the technical agenda for the Systems Data team, ensuring the accuracy of all master data in all relevant IT systems to permit effective purchasing, manufacturing and dispatch of Refresco UK products and delivering to agreed technical KPI’s and objectives.

Key responsibilities of the Systems & Master Data Manager:

• Lead the UK Systems Data Team in all technical systems
• Power Bi reporting skills with the ability to lead and build all technical KPI’s to drive key quality performance across the technical team,
• Oversee the integration of Technical Quality Management data strategies into automated and cloud-based systems to enhance data quality, improve accessibility, and drive operational efficiency.
• Manage and optimize master data in databases using SQL, ensuring high data integrity, consistency, and performance to support analytics, reporting, and business operations.
• Ensure accurate recording of materials and products in relevant IT systems (SAP, iRen, SAP QM and Harford, Manzini, Botec, Tetra, and Marco Systems)
• Maintain data accuracy and timeliness following best practices
• Drive continuous process improvement and waste elimination by analyzing master data workflows, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing best practices to enhance productivity, reduce errors, and support lean data operations
• Ensure availability and review of internal documents as per document control procedures.
• Provide system support during audits to maintain satisfactory standards.
• Collaborate with the Head of Technical and Quality Management on improving Technical data maintenance.
• Foster team development and create a succession plan for skills enhancement.
• Govern the group technical agenda, drive quality improvement projects, and deliver the technical annual review. Create an engaging environment within technical and operations teams to achieve Refresco's technical agenda.

About you

• Empowering team leader that has a clear vison and who enables team members to flourish.
• Experience in an influential technical/quality role.
• Demonstrable operational experience, together with significant exposure, gained ideally in a fast moving consumer goods environment.
• Fully conversant with modern manufacturing methodologies.
• Innovative and entrepreneurial thinker, interested in food and drink and improving quality systems.
• Flexibility for regular travel to and stay at our Kegworth head office

About Refresco

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 14 billion litres of soft drinks from 78 manufacturing plants in Europe, North America and we've just opened in Australia, and we’re only just getting started. We have grown from just 2 sites in 1999. Our Group Headquarters are based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK.

Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets, plus some of the best-known UK drink brands.

From the purchasing of the raw materials such as fruit juices and CO2, through to the finished product delivered to your table, we cover the full manufacturing cycle for our customers. And, whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards.