Responsible Business

Within the Responsible Business team we are focussed on all the things that make the world a better place. We have a broad scope covering improving our environmental impact, giving back to the communities in which we are based and improving the sustainability of the ingredients we source.

We also look after the human side of the business ensuring those who work within our supply chain are treated fairly and with respect, and continually improving the health safety and wellbeing of our workforce. All this underpins Whitby Seafoods culture as a caring family business led by our values.

Human Resources

At Whitby Seafoods people are at the heart of everything we do - we recognise that our success as a business depends on our people.

Our Human Resources team are responsible for a wide range of tasks associated with employing the right people, ongoing training and developing of our people, processing weekly payroll for our teams and a commitment to everyone’s welfare - to name but a few. Additionally, we ensure these activities, and others within the business, are carried out in line with our company values.

Sales, Marketing & Category

We’re a buccaneering, privately owned, family business with almost 40 years’ experience, and we’re based in Whitby - a real place with a rich history as a fishing port.

As a company we are obsessed with top-notch sustainable seafood and are the market leaders in quality. We are the beacon brand for scampi and are the UK’s largest buyer and processor of scampi. Simply put we sell more scampi than anyone else anywhere else and we are proud to sell our scampi under the Whitby brand.

We are brand builders, with a strong character, provenance and market leading quality. Our Sales, Marketing and Category team champion the voices of our customer, category, and consumer. By working closely with these key stakeholders across both the Foodservice and Retail sector, our aim is to continue to grow the coated seafood category, raising awareness of the brand and encouraging more people to eat more scampi more often.

Finance

The Finance team at Whitby and Kilkeel Seafoods are responsible for strategic financial management and accounting functionality, which is conducted within the values of the business.

On a day-to-day basis, our team are responsible for tasks such as paying our suppliers and managing our financial relationships with our customers.

Our team are involved with monitoring of the business which may include activities such as reporting to stakeholders on areas of business performance and financial position. In addition, we take care of our statutory and regulatory financial obligations and have responsibility for the correct maintenance of our accounting system.

Our responsibilities reach to aiding strategy deployment, which can incorporate activities such as long-range forecasting, cash flow planning and financing for capital expenditure.

Engineering

Though the planned and reactive maintenance of production equipment is arguably our most important function, the Engineering Department’s role goes far beyond fixing machines - it is much more varied and involved than that. We provide key engineering maintenance, service, and support functions to all departments - from replacing faulty light bulbs to major installations, from weekly monitoring checks to control of contractors and everything in between.

As a result, all engineers are an integral member of a friendly and supportive engineering team and are required to be able to apply themselves to a wide range of multi-skilled engineering applications in a fast paced, dynamic, stimulating and rewarding working environment where the health, safety, and welfare of all employees and of the food products we produce are paramount.