Food Technologist

Food Technologist

Permanent Monday - Friday 08:30am - 5:00pm

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting the technical function, ensuring that quality, safety and compliance standards are maintained throughout the supply chain while driving continuous improvement across your category.

Benefits

• 15% discount
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance (4 x annual salary)
• Health and wellbeing support services
• Employee assistance programmes
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Mobile phone discounts
• Discounted health assessments
• Pet insurance discounts
• Ride-to-work scheme
• Mortgage and financial wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Risk assessing, maintaining and implementing a UK residue testing schedule.
• Reviewing label confirmations to ensure all retailer requirements are met.
• Ensuring all company due diligence requirements are maintained and up to date.
• Managing supplier approvals and maintaining due diligence controls for suppliers, sites and specifications through internal and external platforms.
• Acting as the category technical representative during site audits and supporting traceability exercises, ensuring all corrective actions are completed and closed out.
• Managing specification amendments and communicating updates to all relevant stakeholders.
• Compiling technical reports and analysing data to support business decisions.
• Managing benchmarking sessions, including competitor shopping activities, and sharing results with key stakeholders.
• Providing regular category updates and technical performance reporting.
• Feeding back technical and quality performance information to suppliers.
• Collating and publishing weekly crop reports and relevant category data.
• Monitoring supplier responses to product rejections and ensuring records are maintained in line with company procedures.
• Supporting supplier reviews with relevant technical and category information.
• Building strong working relationships with internal teams, retail customers and suppliers.
• Raising purchase orders, receipting invoices and supporting technical administration where required.
• Communicating relevant government and regulatory updates to key stakeholders.

What we're looking for

• We're looking for a technically minded fresh produce professional who combines strong attention to detail with excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills.

You'll ideally have

• A qualification in Agriculture, Food Science or a related scientific discipline.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with a logical, evidence-based approach.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• The ability to confidently solve problems and make informed decisions.
• Strong report writing skills and the ability to communicate technical information clearly.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective supplier relationships.
• A full UK driving licence, valid passport and access to your own vehicle, with flexibility to travel regularly.