“Gressingham Foods have been in business in the UK for just over 50 years. The founders moved from Ireland to start rearing ducks in our Woodbridge production site and later acquired the main production site near Diss.
The company has continued growing in strength and now stands 750 employees across Norfolk & Suffolk.
We breed, hatch and rear our own ducks, turkeys and geese making us the biggest duck manufacturer in the UK.
I started my career in sales and project management developing computer rooms and IT installations within large blue chip companies.
I joined Gressingham in 2012 as their Training Manager. After acquiring a vast portfolio of training qualifications and gaining industry experience I progressed into the role of Learning and Development Manager. We are a Cornerstone Employer working with the Careers & Enterprise Company careers hubs to support world class education at scale in their local region.
I have a passion for people development and have a proactive approach to adapting to the developing learning needs of our employees. Understand and keeping abreast of what skills are needed to support our staff is our priority and making sure that we offer our staff a broad spectrum of training is crucial. I absolutely love getting involved in school events and inspiring young minds with what they can achieve if they have the right mindset. I do talks in schools and colleges regularly which has resulted in a 300% rise in apprentice applications this year which means we will be recruiting even more apprentices this year than we normally do. I have a great senior leadership team here that are behind everything that I do when it comes to onboarding young people. They fully endorse the importance of creating a memorable first experience of working and making sure that its one full of positivity and motivational. “
