Raw Material Technologist

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role of Raw Materials technologist you are responsible for ensuring that the materials within the factory are safe, approved, monitored and driven actions are put in to prevent reoccurrence of poor quality materials.

Key Responsibilities:

- Support in approving Bradgate’s raw material portfolio, including packaging to ensure the legality, food safety, integrity, and quality of all incoming raw materials.
- Support NPD, procurement, process development, operational, planning and quality teams on site with the raw material management.
- Ensure appropriate and documented controls are in place to assure right first-time delivery of all raw materials.
- Undertake raw material supplier visits / audits to follow up on any issues and as part of the approval process where necessary. Report findings and manage supplier response to ensure improvement.
- Experience with raw materials in food industry setting preferred
- Working knowledge of computer systems, use of excel
- Effective communication skills across all levels
- Experience of managing other people’s expectations
- Organisational/prioritising skills & ability to respond to changes
- Ability to negotiate, influence & recognise other view points
- Ability to develop effective relationships with other areas across the site

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._