Careers
Swizzels Matlow is a family business in all respects. It is run by the 3rd generation of the founders of the business and is also where different generations from the same families often work alongside one another.
Employing nearly 600 employees, we enjoy tremendous staff loyalty – over 20% of our employees have worked here for 20 years or more. Our employees are our best assets. We value their personal as well as their professional development, offering workplace vocational qualifications or e-learning for any subject of their choice from IT to camera skills in our dedicated Refreshers Learning Centre.
Swizzels is an equal opportunities employer and we are proud of our caring culture, being awarded disability confident employer status.
We always welcome opinions and ideas from all who work for us. We aren’t just a team – we are a family. To join the Swizzels Matlow family please fill in the form below and someone will get back to you.
Current vacancies
Receptionist – Middlewich site
Hours: Monday-Friday: 7:00am-12:00pm.
Pay Rate: Competitive
Responsibilities:
- Welcome visitors and new starters to site
- Control access to the site
- Patrol premises at least once per shift to prevent or detect signs of intrusion and ensure security of doors, windows and gates
- If the fire alarm sounds, assist the fire marshals with the fire roll call by providing the list of people who haven’t left the building
- Processing bulk material deliveries
- Answer internal/external calls
- Assist with administrative tasks
Key Skills
- Highly motivated
- Safety first approach
- Polite and positive attitude
- Patient with good communication skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to cope under pressure
- Able to multitask
- Operate with integrity
- Have an excellent work ethic
- Work according to Swizzels Matlow’s values: Integrity, Passion, Respect, Teamwork, Positivity
Customer Collaboration Manager – New Mills site
Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm, Friday: 9:00am-4:30pm
Pay Grade: Competitive
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Customer, Commercial and Supply Chain teams Supporting Commercial colleagues with promotional forecasting, service level analysis and any stock and inbound queries.
- Be the interface between the Customer Supply Chain and the business.
- Ensure that a robust forecasting process is completed which drives forecast accuracy and allows input from both the Customer and the Commercial team.
- Facilitate and manage short term fluctuations in Demand through collaboration with customers and supply team
- Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to demand planning process
- Track, review and publish promotional sales performance and promotional evaluations Track, review and action on shelf availability numbers
- Support and feed into the monthly S&OP process providing insight into forecast changes, performance versus budget and monthly phasing
Key Skills required:
- IT literate with experience of MS office applications.
- Deep understanding of Supply Chain principles.
- Strong communication and excellent interpersonal skills. Comfortable liaising with individuals at all levels.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Displays sound judgement in prioritisation of workload and decision making.
- Proactively seeks improved ways of working and adoption of best practice principles.
- Work according the Swizzels Matlow Values: Integrity, Passion, Teamwork, Respect and Positivity.
