Customer Technical Support
Posted 8 hours 34 minutes ago by Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc
Permanent
Full Time
HR / Recruitment Jobs
Kent, Maidstone, United Kingdom, ME141
Job Description
About the Opportunity 
At Driscoll's, we are passionate about delivering the freshest and highest-quality berries to consumers around the world. To support our continued growth, we are looking for a Customer Technical Support professional to join our Technical team in Maidstone. In this role, you will play a key part in maintaining exceptional quality standards, supporting customer relationships, and ensuring technical processes run smoothly across our business.
Responsibilities- Support Technical Account Managers and the Head of Technical with day to day technical activities.
- Manage and maintain technical databases, approval systems, and grower approval records.
- Coordinate retailer and new variety sampling programmes while ensuring traceability and compliance.
- Investigate customer complaints, depot rejections, and quality issues, providing clear analysis and reporting.
- Produce trend analysis, performance reports, and quality insights for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare weekly crop reports and collate relevant weather and production data.
- Maintain customer portals, retailer specifications, and technical documentation.
- Support retailer quality trackers, scorecards, and performance reporting.
- Take ownership of complaints data management and maintain a central reporting database.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting accuracy, and ways of working.
- Provide administrative support to the wider Technical team, including meeting coordination, reporting, and follow-up actions.
- Opportunity to work for the global market leader in fresh berries.
- Collaborative and supportive team environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Exposure to major retailers and international supply chain operations.
- Chance to make a direct impact on product quality, customer satisfaction, and business performance.
- Organised and proactive individual who enjoys working with data, solving problems, and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented, customer-focused, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in a technical support, quality, customer service, or similar operational role.
- Experience within fresh produce, soft fruit, food manufacturing, agriculture, or a related industry is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends and provide practical recommendations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Continuous improvement mindset and willingness to contribute new ideas.