Investor Relations Senior Manager - #1657682

Job Description

Leading the way in creating great tasting fresh food, living our values and delivering profitable, sustainable growth while supporting you to have a successful career at Bakkavor.

Salary Competitive Salary

Benefits £9,600 Car Allowance, up to 25% Bonus, Private Healthcare for family

Location: CentralLondon – Fitzroy (near Oxford Circus)

Ways of Working: Hybrid (3 days in office)

Houts of work: Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours

Contract Type: Permanent

Why join Bakkavor?

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. As a valued Investor Relations Senior Manager, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

You will help shape and deliver the Group’s Investor Relations strategy ensuring investor confidence and belief in the company’s equity story to deliver shareholder value.

What We Do

We’re the market leader in fresh prepared food. We supply a range of c.3,500 fresh products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to UK supermarkets, including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose, and international food brands. Our c.18,000 colleagues work across 43 sites in our three markets; UK, US and China. The Group’s revenue is £2.3m, with c.85% generated in the UK. We are a FTSE 250 listed business. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! 

About The Role

The Investor Relations Senior Manager plays a key role in shaping and delivering the Investor Relations strategy, including the external financial results and building relationships with external stakeholders, directly reporting to the Head of Finance – Investor Relations, Treasury & ESG. The successful candidate will need to have a strong sense of accountability, urgency and ownership and be highly organised.

Key responsibilities:

Delivery of the Group’s external financial results

• Prepare front-half sections, presentations, CEO / CFO scripts and Q&A
• Partner with financial PR advisors to support development of external publications
• Collaborate with regional leaders to distil key messages of performance
• Liaise with key internal stakeholders to obtain relevant information
• Ensure clear and consistent messaging
• Own organisation of financial results; timeline, roadshows, webcasts, briefing books
  
  
  
  

Delivery of Annual Report & Accounts (‘ARA’)

• Lead and project manage the delivery of the ARA
• Highly organised approach to ensure key reporting deadlines met
• Key point person for the design agency & auditors
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to prepare & review section content
• Distil key messages
• Consider changes to reporting requirements
  
  
  
  

Build strong relationships with analysts

• Build strong relationships with covering analysts
• Ensure they have a clear understanding of the business
• Respond to queries in a timely manner
• Update analyst consensus model, review analyst models and feedback
  
  
  
  

Other Areas Of Responsibility

• Review shareholder register analysis
• Prepare materials for investor / analyst events
• Support with investor targeting
• Prepare monthly Group Board investor relations update
• Prepare materials for conferences / presentations
• Monitor listed peer performance and perform ad hoc analysis
• Maintain investor relations calendar of events
  
  
  
  

About You

Requirements for the role:

• Excellent relationship building skills, you will be able to influence senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Willing to challenge and provide innovative solutions to problems
• Proven project management skills, process driven and highly organised , adept at running processes with clear timelines, stakeholder management and deliverables
• Strong financial acumen, with ability to interpret and analyse financial information and business trends
• Excellent communication skills, including financial results drafting and presentations
• Strong adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment, used to working to deliver on tight deadlines
  
  
  
  

Ideally you will have:

• Investor Relations experience in a listed company environment
• Chartered Accountant or related qualification in Finance
• Highly computer literate, with excellent command of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
• Comfortable analysing detailed financial information and distilling key messages
• Awareness of media and public relations
  
  
  
  

Where you’ll work:

The role is based out of our Fitzroy head office in central London, near Oxford Circus, with a minimum of three days in the office per week. You may be required to visit our manufacturing sites, and other locations from time to time. There will be investor events around the financial results that will take place primarily in London.

What you’ll receive :

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy: 

• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance (4 x salary)
• Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover)
• Car allowance
• Executive health screening
• Income protection
• Staff Shop
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
  
  
  
  

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Find out more and apply.

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