What you’ll be doing…

Are you passionate about food safety, quality, and sustainability? We are looking for an experienced Technical Manager to join our dynamic team. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping and executing our technical strategy while ensuring our suppliers meet the highest food safety standards and sustainability goals.

Take the next step in your career by applying to be a key player in our technical team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Take an active role in developing improved systems/ processes for technical data collection.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers and manufacturers to ensure that our technical data requirements are understood and delivered. 
• Produce various reports for Elior Uk and Group Elior to highlight current technical performance on key objectives i.e. CSR reporting, Biffpack, etc.
• Understand FIR Regulations, allergens, nutritional compositions and general food legislation and be able to communicate and facilitate implementation of any legislative changes.
• Develop and maintain technical specifications for Elior specific food and non food products, ensuring that any changes are communicated to raw material suppliers.
• Owner of product quality in key fresh food categories and Elior bespoke products utilizing technical specifications to benchmark.
• Ensure that key suppliers/ manufacturers meet the required technical standards in line with BRC accreditation through scheduled site visits & audits and drive development of an appropriate action plan which supports agreed corrective and preventative actions as required.
• Develop product testing regimes where appropriate.
• Operate an effective escalation process for supplier quality control non-compliance, including a daily data review and appropriate internal communication as well as maintain clear communications with the raw material supplier.
• Together with the CSR team, support the evaluation of the environmental impact of suppliers and their processes, including carbon footprints and resource usage, to ensure alignment with Elior’s sustainability goals
• To complete objectives set through the performance review process (PDR) and other reasonable ad hoc duties that may be requested from time to time.

What can you bring?

• Minimum 4-5 years work experience in a technical supervisory or management role within the food industry.
• Experience with food and feed safety management systems and with dealing with customer audits and external certification audits (eg. BRC, FSSC22000, ISO9001, UFAS, FEMAS).
• Qualifications: Lead Auditor FSSC22000 and ISO9001 (Essential).
• Minimum Intermediate HACCP or equivalent (Essential).
• Minimum Level 3 Food Safety Qualification (Essential).
• Strong technical knowledge of Microbiological and Analytical requirements for food safety and quality.
• Competent in the use of electronic document management and audit systems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (must be able to liaise effectively with internal colleagues as well as suppliers)
• High degree of attention to detail and focus and able to work to tight deadlines.
• Team player, but also self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative.