Food Technologist (Major Retailer)

Salary: £48,000 – £55,200 per year

Working as a Technologist you will be responsible for the product safety, quality & legality in your own product area as well as managing a wide breadth of product suppliers, located across the country and sourcing from around the globe. As well as your own product area you will support your Technical Manager to deliver the category plans and KPIs

You will be responsible for
• Ensuring products in area are safe, legal, responsibly sourced and meet the product brief
• Achieving key KPIs and supporting development of policy/protocol in your category
• Minimising cost and risk throughout the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistency, legality and quality of products & packaging and signing off products at appropriate milestones
• Utilise internal systems and KPI data to give clear and concise business reports, whilst helping drive positive change in the produce category.
• Ensuring required Due Diligence documents are in place. Ensuring labelling is legal and factually correct
• Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing actions to resolve issues raised
• Managing and developing long term partnerships with suppliers, improving processes, quality and value

You will need

* Relevant experience/qualification(s) in related area

* Relevant product area knowledge/experience of delivering safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products to the customer

* Knowledge of legislation and technical standards

* Understanding of risk and risk assessment

* Strong Initiative with proactive ways of working

* Personable and able build strong relationship and collaborate with all stakeholders and suppliers

If this is of interest, please apply via. this website without delay.