McDonalds ROI (Corporate) Hiring For RootFood ROI – Dawn Meats at County Waterford Full Time

Company Description

***Please attach a cover letter with your CV before submitting your application***

McDonald’s is the world’s largest chain of quick service restaurants, with around 1,400 restaurants in the UK serving over 4 million customers daily. McDonald’s buys ingredients from over 23,000 British and Irish farmers and spends over £1 billion annually in the UK food and agricultural sector.

Company Vision and Culture…

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald’s and, in the UK & Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Ireland’s best-loved restaurant company.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities, and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first

Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone

Integrity: We do the right thing

Community: We are good neighbours

Family: We get better together

At McDonald’s we are People from all Walks of Life…

People are at the heart of everything we do and they make the McDonald’s experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers.

We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald’s or elsewhere.

McDonald’s Sustainability Ambitions:
We’ve been proudly serving communities across the UK and Ireland since 1974. But this moment in time requires us to accelerate our ambition –and work even harder to look after each other and our planet. That means not just keeping pace with change, but leading the change, and playing our part in bringing a more sustainable, fairer future within closer reach for everyone.

Our Plan For Change sustainability strategy is a clear plan with goals and actions to help us lead positive change across our business and beyond. Our Root2Food Trainee scheme aims to make progress on our Plan for Change goal of kick-startingover 100 careers in food and farming for young people from diverse backgrounds by 2030.

As part of our journey to net zero, we are committed to leading the change on beef sustainability and supporting the farmers who supply us. Therefore, we work in partnership with our suppliers across three key areas:

• We innovate, investing in the latest research to support farm sustainability and animal welfare.
• We illustrate, working with our farmers and suppliers to bring these innovations to life on farm to share best practice.
• And we influence, using our scale to encourage industry progress and innovation.

Find out more on our website: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/our-plan-for-change/great-food/sustainable-beef.html

Job Description

The Opportunity:
We’re offering an exciting and unique one-year trainee programme for interested dynamic, ambitious people looking to gain practical experience in our food supply chain from farm to front counter. With professional training that will prepare you with knowledge and practical required to successfully kickstart your career in the food supply chain. This opportunity enables the successful candidate to gain vast amounts of exposure to the UK & Irish beef supply chain. You will be working with one of McDonalds industry leading beef suppliers-Dawn Meats-and will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects across different departments, including Supply Chain, Logistics, Agriculture, Operations, Sustainability, Marketing and Commercial. This is an opportunity to be part of a team that has great ambitions, challenging tasks, and diversity throughout. This is a placement that will allow you to help shape the business and your own career moving forwards.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Shadowing of colleagues within various business departments to immerse yourself within the team and broader business.
• Collating, analysing, and interpreting accurate data for reporting and communicate information in an engaging way through a variety of channels, to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide support and advice to key stakeholders throughout the business.
• Build effective relationships with both colleagues and key industry contacts.
• Conducting general administrative and operational tasks and being involved in the day-to-day running of different departments.
• Support to account management teams across the different functions including commercial, marketing, quality, and agriculture.
• The opportunity to work with and build relationships and rapport with farmers and farmer groups. Including working on farm for a period.
• To be involved in and help coordinate and manage project work

Salary – 28,000 Euros

Location

Grannagh, (Flexible with location (On-site)-Wherever the business need is required for the successful candidate to go)

What will my accountabilities be?

• Throughout the Programme you will be expected to undertake specific projects to gain a better understanding of sustainability and the Supply Chain.
• To gain an overview of McDonald’s, the suppliers’ unique businesses and experience of both business management.
• Become an ambassador for our brand and potentially undertake some communication activity.
• Continually looking at how to make potential business improvements and or where there could be areas of development

What Team will I be a part?

Based within Dawn Meats teams and report to the Agriculture Manager. You will undertake a week restaurant training experience with McDonald’s, insight days with our other suppliers and attend various sponsorship events throughout the year including Oxford Farming Conference, City Food and Drink Lecture and more.

Who are my customers?

This program provides scope to follow our products from the farms we use, through to our restaurants, enabling you to work with a number of different suppliers, farmers and partners around the country.

Qualifications

What background do I need to have?

We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated, and driven person to join our fast-paced team. The key to this is your attitude and aptitude! We are looking for someone who is keen to learn, who shows enthusiasm and has a hunger to grow and achieve. The successful candidate will have good interpersonal skills with a ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to use their initiative and think innovatively to find practical solutions. With the willingness to learn more about a career within the food supply chain and work alone as well as part of a team. You do not need to have an agriculture or supply chain background, it’s your ability to learn and get involved that we are looking for.

The applicants should:

• Applicants must hold a full driving license.
• Have an interest in working in the food and/or agriculture industry
• Be curious and informed with the ability to use initiative, identify, and pursue opportunities
• Computer literate -Proficient with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Keen to research and broaden one’s knowledge as well as others on the team
• Confidence to present learnings and recommendations back to the team •Ability to network with different audiences

Application Process:

• CV and cover letter submission
• Interview-McDonald’s& Supplier

NB: Successful candidates would need to obtain a PPS number to be eligible to work.