Supplier Technologist

Company	Yeo ValleySee more
Address	Blagdon, Somerset
Salary	£32,000 per annum
Category	FMCG

Job description

As a Supplier Technologist, you'll be pivotal in building and maintaining strong relationships with our raw material suppliers.

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic team, ensuring right first time quality of raw material supply into our manufacturing sites.

To manage a supplier portfolio and ensure effective supplier management, ensuring food safety and raw material quality.

Supporting the team and building effective supplier technical relationships and developing supplier management responsibilities, and raw material plans.

Ensuring our suppliers meet business and customer requirements Leading and driving continuous improvement in our supply base.

Responsible for managing a portfolio of raw materials and suppliers
Effective management through risk assessment and performance
Evaluate and approve potential and new suppliers in your category
Work cross functionally to drive cost out across our suppliers
Working with procurement and development to ensure appropriate suppliers / ingredients available to support innovation and business continuity needs
Ensure supplier specifications are accurate and include all appropriate characteristics necessary to enable right first time quality for operations

Hours: 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

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Essential:

Experience in Quality & Food safety management
Strong People and Communication skills
Effective networking and influencing skills
Ability to operate effectively at all levels across the business
Great at building relationships internally and externally
Internal audit level 2 minimum

Desired:

Science or similar Degree or 2 years experience
HACCP level 3
Supplier management experience
People development
Food Safety Level 3
VACCP/TACCP foundation level

Benefits

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: 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays 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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