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Richard Parsons
Associate Director - Food and FMCG search and headhunt specialist. Sales, Marketing, ECommerce, Exec & Senior roles.
Are you looking for the job that will allow you to progress to Technical Manager?
This could be for you - this business are looking for a food technologist to work on one of their top major retail accounts alongside the Technical Manager for this account. They are a growing business and as they deal with a number of retailers there is scope for progression to be take on more responsibility. This role has become vacant due to a person we placed just over a year ago being promoted into a bigger role.
The business have a hands-on and pragmatic culture, which in turn has created a friendly, but hardworking atmosphere. We believe this is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual with an eye for detail, passion and a drive for results.
Role responsibilities:
• Manage customer specific projects.
• Manage customer technical requirements by liaising with suppliers.
• Drive the quality evaluation panels across all products within the business and providing an agreed action plan with the relevant supplier.
• Writing and support with specification systems maintenance and other systems to ensure customer specification compliance.
• Investigating and reporting out of specification micro and chemical results
• Investigating and reporting of product non-conformances.
• Providing process capability data for attributes on new products during the development process and verifying this data after 1st production.
• Working closely with the commercial and NPD teams
• Customer specific KPI reporting and assessment
• Supplier & customer visits
The Candidate
• Degree educated within a food related discipline
• Minimum work experience of 2-3 years within a BRC or similar environment
• Extremely high attention to detail.
• Ability to respond to customers with a “right first time” attitude.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Willingness to travel.
• Full and clean driver’s license.
• Passion for food and products
Package of £30-35k + performance bonus.
Hybrid role with 2 days per week in the Milton Keynes / Luton area.
Please apply to be considered by our consultant Richard Parsons.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Production
Industries
Food and Beverage Services, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Wholesale Food and Beverage
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