Edward Hill

Site Director @ First Milk

About

Fantastic people manager with over 30 years food industry experience that delivers results through coaching and developing colleagues. Proven ability in driving business improvement and cultural change across E2E supply chains. Exceptionally strong operational knowledge of Food Manufacturing – coupled with strong people skills is used to delivering significant results through effective management and team collaboration.

Country

City

United Kingdom

Industry

Food Production

Skill

Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Senior Stakeholder Management, Continuous Improvement, Performance Management, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Operations Management, Business Re-organisation, Manufacturing Productivity, Business Transformation, Turn Around Management, Project Management, SC

Experience

Site Director

First Milk

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

UKI Contract Manufacturing Manager

PepsiCo

2021-9 - 2025-2 · 3 yrs 6 mos

United Kingdom

Responsible for H1 agenda for all UK Coman and Copack partners – managing circa £130M COGS spend on 40,000 MT pa delivering balanced scorecard across PSA, CPM, AIB, Productivity, OTIF and CTS – across 9 different supplier locations and 297 SKU’s – working with a team of 4 direct reports.

UKI SC Project Manager

PepsiCo

2020-3 - 2021-9 · 1 yr 7 mos

United Kingdom

Project role responsible for supporting Skelmersdale, Cupar, and two Leicester manufacturing sites to drive short-term performance during the Covid pandemic.

Senior Operations Manager / Site Lead - Skelmersdale Manufacturing plant

PepsiCo

2017-12 - 2020-3 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Responsible for £75M plant compressible costs, managing a team of 4 direct reports, 16 indirect reports, and a FLC population of 560 colleagues across a 24/7 operating shift pattern, producing brands such as Lays, Monster Munch, Baked, and Snack-a-Jacks, with an output of 38,000MT per annum.

Factory Manager

Bakkavor

2017-3 - 2017-12 · 10 mos

United Kingdom

Responsible for RTE wet salads deli operation - responsible for 5 direct reports, 12 indirect reports and FLC of 280 colleagues producing single customer PBL circa 2 million units per week across 86 SKU's Factory/site was in a business turnaround situation - developing business plan and managing senior executive stakeholders and gaining internal ownership to drive the plan were key outputs.