Ready to take the next step in your technical career?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking food business supplying premium fresh produce to leading UK retailers. You’ll play a key role in driving technical standards, managing supplier performance, and ensuring food safety, legality, and quality are upheld across the supply base. Working closely with suppliers, customers, and cross-functional teams, this is a chance to make a real impact in a fast-paced, growing environment.

You will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Supporting senior leadership in all areas of food safety, quality, legality, and integrity.
• Maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring adherence to customer requirements, ethical sourcing, and sustainability policies.
• Coordinating supplier visits, audits, and improvement plans while driving innovation and best practice.
• Managing customer technical communication, complaints, KPIs, and product rejections.
• Collating and reporting technical performance data, ensuring visibility across quality, complaints, waste, and shelf life.
• Supporting supplier development and continuous improvement initiatives across technical and commercial teams.
• Leading internal and external benchmarking sessions to assess quality standards and drive consistency.
• Supporting the management of specifications, packaging, and product trials for new and existing lines.
• Providing clear technical updates and analysis to both suppliers and customers.
• Contributing to the development of SOPs and quality systems to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

What’s Required?

• Proven experience in a Technical Management role within the fresh produce or short shelf-life food sector.
• Strong working knowledge of food safety legislation, auditing (including BRCGS and retailer standards), and supplier assurance.
• Experience managing customer-facing relationships with major UK retailers.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Competency in Microsoft Office and experience with retailer specification portals.
• Previous auditing experience—Lead Auditor qualification preferred.
• A proactive, detail-oriented professional who thrives in a collaborative and fast-moving environment.

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What’s in it for you?
£55,000.00 - £70,000.00 per annum

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(ID 214)

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