Rose Hadley

Shift Manager, Hadley Park

Fast paced?.......Yes!
At times difficult?..........Yes!
Rewarding?........Very!
Boring?......Never


My previous employment included retail shop management for a large bakery chain and then I moved into food manufacturing with chilled desserts and ambient cakes – although this sector is quite challenging it does have a certain sameness about each day.

Four years ago I joined Hotel Chocolat initially as a Supervisor in charge of packing. Within six months I was helping to set up and move to a very large packing facility and a year ago moved into making chocolate as well.

I am now a Shift Manager responsible for up to two hundred people, some on packing our product, some on chocolate making.