Job Description

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So, what will I be doing?

As Raw Materials Technologist, you'll be responsible for supporting the supplier management team, ensuring all suppliers and raw materials meet our due diligence requirements, ethical and quality standards.


You'll build great relationships with our suppliers and have a keen eye for detail to ensure that we have all the information needed to deliver our development projects effectively and right first time. You'll work to ensure accurate information is available on our systems for all raw materials and relevant suppliers.

Key responsibilities:

Manage and maintain supplier raw materials specifications Ensure new and revised ingredients meet all legal requirements including food labelling laws Manage and maintain the authenticity risk register and chains of custody for raw materials Ensure certificates, self-audit questionnaires and other due diligence documentation is held for all suppliers Support NPD (New Product Development) by overseeing the approval of new ingredients and suppliers through to kitchen stage (DSP -Development Sample Process) by checking suitability and assessing quality and food safety risks Set up new raw materials in Dynamics and on QMS (Quality Management System) Support traceability challenges at sites providing supplier, packaging and ingredient information. Work with the Supplier Technologists to continuously review current ways of working and look for improvements To support with projects across the Central Manufacturing - Technical department as required.
Working hours: 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Can involve hybrid working.
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Sounds interesting, what do I need?

The important things:

Highly organised and logical Fantastic attention to detail Good IT, numerical and presentation skills Good understanding of food labelling requirements Experience of working in food manufacturing Good people and communication skills

Even better if:

You have a Food Safety level 3 qualification You have completed allergen and micro training You have experience of using Microsoft Dynamics
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Why should I join the family?

We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.



We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:


competitive holiday allowance non-contributory pension scheme life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year) learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.

So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.



Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will

only

accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal

at the point of instruction

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