Once we’ve made our fantastic products, we want our consumers to enjoy them. That’s where our leading edge sales teams come in.

United Biscuits needs to work closely with our customers to ensure that the consumer is able to buy our great products whenever and wherever they want to, and it’s the sales team that make it all happen.

Getting our brands in front of the consumers, on the right shelves and with the right promotions is a complicated process. Our customers range from the major multinationals like Wal Mart, Tesco and Carrefour, to the smallest local shops. Whether you’re in a frontline sales team or one of the support teams, it will be your job to persuade them to give our brands the best positions, take part in promotions and try new product launches.

It is a fast-moving and exciting place to work; you’ll need to build strong relationships and influence a wide range of different people. You will have a good degree and be able to demonstrate that you can influence and inspire others about our products, have an excellent commercial understanding, and be determined to deliver results and succeed.

If this sounds like you, then it’s time to sell yourself to UB.

We’re proud to produce some of the most popular biscuits, snacks and cakes in the world. Our manufacturing teams - the are at the heart of our business - make these fantastic products in our production facilities across the UK and Northern Europe. We are passionate about food production and are constantly striving to improve our standards to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our consumers.

With genuine responsibility from day one, this is a great place to learn and build a career. You’ll manage the production process, from the raw ingredients to the finished product, and lead a skilled production and engineering team. Health and Safety will need to be at the forefront of your mind at all times, as will the requirement to make the right quality of product every time.

We’ll give you all the support you need to inspire and excite your team. So if you think you could handle the responsibility, then you’re exactly the sort of person we’re looking for. A manufacturing, engineering or business degree would be an advantage. However, just as important will be the ability achieve results through a team and to make important business decisions.

The UK HR function at United Biscuits has a HR Service Centre (HRSC), a HR Business Partner team and Centre of Expertise teams for Learning and Development, Reward and Recruitment. The HRSC handles all employee transactional activities and is the first point of contact for employess requiring additional support and information beyond what is available on our internal UB HR Hub. This model has enabled HR to be more effective and efficient as a service provider, and has given our HR Business Partner team and Centre of Expertise teams the opportunity to put greater focus on strategic planning and value adding activities, ensuring that other functions, managers and the organisational goals are aligned.

If you are passionate about people, potential and performance, a role in HR could be the place for you at UB.  If you have a strength in influencing, are a good listener and have a commercial mindset you might well be well suited to the UB Graduate programme.  You’ll need to be motivated, confident and resilient, but the experience will give you interesting cross-functional insight.  Communication skills will therefore be a crucial aspect of the role, working with your HR colleagues and line managers to ensure projects are executed. 

Snacking is the most dynamic sector of the food service industry and United Biscuits is at its heart, with a world-beating brand portfolio. You will be joining a marketing team that controls some of the best-loved and most valuable brands in the sector.

Whether you are working on consumer research, new product launches or one of our main brands, you will be right at the centre of the action. It is a demanding job in a market that changes quickly and you will have to work with our technical teams, sales teams, factories and external agencies to get great results.

Ideally, you will have a degree in marketing or business but whatever you background, you will need to be passionate about brands, highly analytical and a creative thinker. You will need to enjoy working with others and be able to inspire the people around you.

If this sounds like you, then we can give you real experience and an opportunity to build a professional marketing skill set, with some of the best brands in the industry.

"UB are not recruiting Marketing graduates for the 2012 programme, and should this change a comment will be posted on our Facebook page".

Whatever UB needs, whether it’s product ingredients, packaging or printer paper, it’s the procurement team who sources, negotiates and buys it. With an annual spend of over £600m, our procurement activity has a massive impact on our commercial success.

United Biscuits’ procurement function offers you the opportunity to work across a wide range of purchasing categories. As part of our procurement team, you’ll use leading edge tools and techniques to source new sustainable suppliers, negotiate the best terms and deliver cost savings to the business.

You will work within cross-functional business teams to ensure that every driver of cost is reviewed and optimised across the inbound value chain. With global commodity prices moving in unprecedented ways, it’s not an easy job but it is a hugely important one to us.

Ideally you will have a science or business degree. You will also need a good level of commercial awareness and a results driven personality. Strong people and negotiation skills are also essential, as is a willingness to travel to meet the needs of the role.

Ensuring that we produce our leading biscuits and snacks brands requires world class technology and processes in our manufacturing sites across UK and Northern Europe.

Our Engineering and Manufacturing teams are responsible for ensuring the smooth running, day in day out, of our manufacturing facilities to ensure that our products are made to the exacting standards our consumers demand. In addition they lead our multi-million pound capital investment programme which ensures we can meet the consumer needs of tomorrow and deliver our sustainability agenda.

Whether you are working in one of our manufacturing facilities in a project role, designing and implementing a new production line, looking at ways to improve efficiency on existing equipment to maximise output, or researching and implementing ways to reduce energy consumption, we have engineering roles that will allow you to build on the knowledge gained from your degree and continue to develop expertise in a number of fields. The function will give you the opportunity to manage and work with people cross-functionally, from manufacturing and commercial functions within and external to UB.

You will need an Engineering Degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Process or Chemical) and a passion for taking on new challenges, innovative thinking and working as part of a multi-disciplined team. You will have the opportunity to use your technical expertise across a broad spectrum of engineering roles in our business. As your career progresses you will have opportunity to continue to develop your technical expertise, understand UB Lean techniques, including supporting the Lean initiative and gain experience in managing within the Manufacturing team, as well as general business knowledge and understanding.

We are not recruiting for engineers for our 2011 Graduate Programme, but please visit this section again in October 2011 as we may have opportunities for our 2012 Graduate Programme.

Our Supply Chain team work seven days a week to guarantee that our great products reach our customer shelves, so that our consumers can readily purchase, day in day out. To ensure that we are operating as efficiently as possible and generating the highest level of customer satisfaction, UB adopts a leading edge approach to our supply chain management processes and associated technology. Our approach focuses on Strategic, Tactical and Operational level activities.

Strategic activities include: analysing the size and location of our manufacturing operations; partnerships with supplier; where we manufacture and the markets we sell to. This ensures we have the optimum supply chain footprint to meet our business requirements.

At a tactical level our focus is on adopting measures to enable us to continue to deliver a cost effective service to the business, such as reviewing our transportation methods and continually developing our warehousing strategy.

At the operational level our supply chain team are concerned with improving the overall efficiency of the supply chain and focus on production schedules, purchasing approaches, customer order forecasting and delivery.

If you are a graduate who ideally possesses a Logistics or Business related degree, is passionate about working in a organisation with a LEAN approach to supply chain management, who strives for continuous improvement, has a results driven approach and is an excellent team player, then now is the time to join the UB supply chain.