About Scottish Bakers
Scottish Bakers Head Office is located in Dunfermline. The Chief Executive reports to the Board of Directors and heads up a team of 18 permanent members of staff (full and part time) which includes a remote team of Training Advisors who work for the Scottish Bakers training division, National Food & Drink Training (see organisational chart).
Scottish Bakers currently works under its “4Ps” Strategy:
- Profile
- Policy
- People
- Professionalism
Profile
- Raise the profile of Scottish Bakers within the Bakery sector in Scotland in order to increase our number of members.
- Raise the profile of Scottish Bakers by promoting a positive image of the Scottish bakery sector to consumers in order to increase customer support for our members.
- Develop a knowledge base of information on the bakery sector in Scotland; this will include the size and scope of the sector in order to make effective representation to Scottish Government & other key stakeholders.
Policy
- Represent the views of our members to key stakeholders in Scotland to positively influence the quality of policy making decisions in relation to legislation and other key policy areas that affect the bakery trade in Scotland.
- Establish an internal Governance structure that will enable us to listen to the views of our members and have closer links to policy influencing organisations.
- Actively encourage our members to work to high quality standards and promote our role in setting standards to Scottish Government.
People
- Strengthen the range of training services that we currently offer, aiming to become a one stop shop for the development needs of bakers in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
- Include qualifications and skills development in craft and production bakery, retail, Health & Hygiene, Supervisory management, & Owner Manager programmes and additional services including Training Needs Analysis and Customer Service Measurement.
- Develop people and businesses within the sector through an annual calendar of events including a conference, and benchmarking visits.
Professionalism
- Provide a professional employment law advice service that includes insurance.
- Provide a professional Health & Safety advice service that includes insurance.
- Support our members with business planning, especially within family businesses.
- Continuous review of the Joint Industry Council agreement to make it fit for purpose for members.
- Use the buying power of our members to get preferential rates on services including utilities etc.