Fresh Food Jobs UK

Location: London (London)

Salary: Circa £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

To use technical knowledge, expertise and judgment to ensure consistent delivery of innovative high end quality products, whilst ensuring that sales and profit targets are still met by the business. Our client is one of the UK's major multiple retailers.

The IDEAL candidate will possess technical knowledge, expertise and judgement to ensure the consistent delivery of innovative, high quality, safe, and legal products, which meet our client's brand values, ensuring categories meet their sales, and profit targets.

• Identifying and delivering (manage the delivery) of strategic technical initiatives and to take accountability for key technical workstreams.
• Using knowledge and skills to deliver innovative technical solutions to continue to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
• Using experience to aid other members of technical team to widen knowledge and deliver category business unit objectives

Location: Lincolnshire (East Midlands)

Salary: £Excellent

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is always looking to recruit dynamic and experienced technologist / new product developers to work in there development teams. You will take products from concept through to launch, be responsible for comparative shopping, benchmarking, and factory trials of all new products.

• You will need to be able to communicate at all levels,
• Have excellent interpersonal skills
• Be passionate about food
• Be able to build strong relationships with customers.

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Location: Lincolnshire (East Midlands)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £40,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is one of the UK's largest fresh food importers / marketing organisations and are looking to recruit a forward facing customer technologist

The responsibility will be to manage the technical requirements and procedures for the account including due diligences and KPIs.

The role
Customer complaints ~ regard, investigate and seasonal analysis

Specifications

• Preparation of presentations and season reviews
• Due diligence collation and checking of supplier due diligence
• Packaging and label sign off

The candidate

• Knowledge of fresh produce industry
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong attention to detail
• Team player with the ability to work on their own.

Location: West Sussex (South East)

Salary: £Excellent

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is an award winning, market leading fresh food manufacturer based in the south of England. They are growing rapidly and following an internal review have created new roles for a couple of dynamic, ambitious individuals to join to help the business achieve it's goals. The role is simple day-to-day tactical and strategic management of an existing National Account and new business development within that account.

The right person MUST have

• Successful experience of selling food to a top multiple retailer.
• Fantastic sales ability with excellent commercial acumen.
• Commitment to first rate customer service
• Fabulous communication and business development skills and entrepreneurial characteristics, drive and a 'Can-Do' attitude.

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Location: East Riding of Yorkshire (Yorkshire & Humberside)

Salary: Circa £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Looking for a new challenge for 2012? Able to implement new procedures and drive operational excellence? Are you experienced within fresh food retail supply chain? A market leading organisation within the Fresh Produce arena is looking at strengthening its position within the market through implementing practices and procedures to its current operation.

As such they are in need of a Operational expert who has experience of:

* Implementing new working practices

* Putting in place SOPs and adhering/monitoring progress

* Challenging the status quo

* Driving operational excellence through lean techniques

* TQM

The right person will have a thorough experience of managing a large workforce, delivering to tight timescales and within strict standard guidelines, and be able to deliver meaningful career guidance, and support development within the team.

Location: West Midlands (West Midlands)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client based in the Midlands is looking to recruit an agricultural / meat buyer, to strengthen their team. There will be some travel between sites, so flexibility is a must.

Role

• Responsible for all meat projects for the business
• Lead innovation within your category
• Ensure security of supply
• Construct robust supplier agreements

Candidate

• Graduate or equivalent - Agriculture qualification preferred
• Strategic thinker
• Strong technical competencies in buying and agriculture
• Good negotiating skills, and commercial acumen
• Excellent understanding of supply chain.

Location: Lincolnshire (East Midlands)

Salary: Up to £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client based in South Lincolnshire is looking to recruit an HR Advisor, reporting to the site HR Manager.

The role

• To support the Head of HR in the delivery of the HR strategy
• To provide support, coaching and training for the business
• To proactively resource current vacancies

The candidate

• To be CIPD qualified or part qualified
• 3-5 years experience in an HR advisory role
• Be well organised and possess good communication skills
• Be up to date with current employment legislation

Location: Kent (South East)

Salary: Circa £40,000 +benefits

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a well known leader in the foodservice industry, based on the South East Coast. They are looking to recruit an experienced buyer, from either a retail, foodservice or wholesale background

The candidate will be required:

• To support the development of and implement the supplier strategy for the business unit
• To negotiate best value deals with suppliers
• To ensure 100% availability of products
• To develop effective business relationships with identified key supplies.
• To manage the procurement process for the relevant categories

Key skills required

• Previous purchasing experience either in retail, foodservice or retail
• Good people skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Must be numerate, innovative and creative.
• Must have full clean driving licence.

Location: West Midlands (West Midlands)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

My client is looking to recruit an Indirects Category Buyer. Previous experience desirable in manufacturing process / packaging equipment, portable cod storage, general engineering products and services.

• Excellent negotiation skills
• CIPS qualified or working towards qualification
• Previous multi site, food manufacturing experience desirable
• Ideally graduate 2:1 or higher
• Experienced of working with stake holders and communicating at a senior level,
• Minimum 3-5 years experience in procurement roles / procurement environment.

Location: Kent (South East)

Salary: Circa £40k

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

As Senior Technical Manager for Raw Materials you will be responsible for ensuring that the raw materials going into our client's products are safe and comply with all relevant legislation. This will entail working closely with all raw materials suppliers for both the European and overseas operations, working closely with the Global Technical Director and managing a Raw Materials Technologist.

Our clients are at the forefront of producing high quality natural ingredient baby foods. Their first full year of trading (to June 2007) generated almost £1.4m turnover and are expected to hit £50m this year.

The IDEAL candidate will possess:

• You will need a good Food Science/Technology or similar degree.
• You will need to have strong spreadsheet and data handling skills and be numerate.
• You will need to have strong organisation skills.
• You will have a good knowledge of food processing and product development processes and will be keen to be exposed to a wide range of relevant products and processes, e.g. purees, ready meals, baked goods, dried fruits.
• You will have an excellent understanding of raw materials control (experience in baby food is preferable but not essential), including managing raw material quality from grower through to finished product manufacture.