Senior Food Technologist

Senior Food Technologist

Major Talent is partnered with a leading wholesaler based in the East Midlands and is looking for a Senior Food Technologist to join their team

Experience with flavors, food, or FMCG is advantageous. What is important is your passion and hunger for a rewarding career.

As a Senior Food Technologist, you will be responsible for ensuring robust processes are implemented and followed for all new R&D projects to launch and you will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of all R&D.

Responsibilities of a Senior Food Technologist

• End-to-end ownership of R&D/NPD projects to be managed, communicated and progressed through the business.
• Conduct onsite new product development trials and take them from concept to launch.
• Support the production team in "scale up" factory trials.
• Record and save all relevant R&D data on the provided digital workspaces.
• Coach and mentor junior members of the R&D team, with them in mind to be the future R&D leaders. PIPs and KPIs to be created and maintained for the team.
• Own products and white label costings using supplier and competition data to make us highly competitive in the market.
• Sourcing new raw materials from global suppliers to maximise the cost and quality of the products.
• Maintain the company recipe web site (WMS).
• Work closely with other functions within the business, i.e. Production, sales and design to allow fluid cross functional communication.
• Attend/lead R&D weekly meetings and product briefs.
• Determining and executing improved technologies used by suppliers, competitors and customers information.
• Be continually innovating current and new products, using new methods, ingredients and production processes.
• Manage and communicate any regulatory requirements, e.g. FSA with the direct collaboration with the MD

Skills Required to be a Senior Food Technologist

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills in order to collaborate internally
• Experience working within Food, Flavours, Ingredients or FMCG
• Passionate about R&D
• Good organization and project management skills
• Good customer management skills

What's in it for you?

• Salary DOE
• Company bonus 10%
• 20 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Working hours are Monday-Friday 8:30-17:00

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment, or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward.

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