Technologist - Risk & Compliance

5 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Coop Full time

**Technologist - Risk and Compliance**
£32,000 to £47,000 plus benefits, including a company car (Work Level 6A)
Manchester city centre (hybrid), with UK travel to supplier sites (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We’re looking for a Technologist to join our food brand team and help us make sure that our own label products are always fully safe, legal, and compliant. You’ll proactively look at ingredient risk by daily horizon scanning and supporting the team by making sure we mitigate any risk to our fantastic products.

We’ll look to you to proactively manage our Co-op systems and procedures, surveillance and process compliance supporting continuous improvement. If you’ve got the technical experience that we’re looking for, we can offer you the opportunity to grow your career with a business that puts people at the heart of its strategy.

**What you’ll do**
- Drive the risk framework, which supports the key risks in Technical to make sure we mitigate any risk to our products
- Make sure all key partners are aware of any risks and appropriate communication is delivered
- Complete daily management of reviewing horizon scanning tools making sure any intelligence is communicated and risk assessed
- Manage our surveillance system, by driving compliance to quality, safety, legal and processes, sharing the results of these with internal and external partners, and pro-actively addressing areas of improvement
- Conduct ongoing assessment of the supply base to make sure we use suppliers whose competencies, capability, capacity, and alignment with our policy requirements meet or exceed customer expectations
- Work collaboratively with the category team to support on risk and compliance
- Share expertise and identify solutions that drive innovation in the Technical Services Team, and improvements in product quality, safety, and legality
- Support and manage our Co-op systems, making sure they’re running efficiently and are optimum for both our suppliers and team

**This role would suit people who have**
- A food tech degree, or equivalent technical experience with a retailer or manufacturer
- An understanding of the operational side of food retail
- Excellent people and networking skills
- Strong communication, ability to manage projects, and influencing skills
- A co-operative and collaborative approach

**Why Co-op?**

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

**Building a diverse environment**

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing



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