Graduate Technologist

Job Title: Graduate Technologist

Location: Birmingham, B6

**Salary**: £23,000 - £25,000

To **support** the technical department of your nominated product category.
- Drive quality performance throughout the business
- Manage daily internal relationships with procurement teams, suppliers, operations and the wider internal teams.
- Ensure technical compliance is maintained for your product category.
- Cover for the technical manager in times of absence.
**Responsibilities**
- Timely and accurate decision making supporting the QA and operational teams on quality or seasonal challenges
- Support the due diligence system taking responsibility for the maintenance and accuracy of supplier records
- Work with the supply base, engaging in all technical requirements such as quality performance, food safety, ethical and sustainability.
- Internal reporting for both customers and suppliers dealing with all stakeholders and systems.
- Supporting the internal audit system and GMP assessments
- Attendance at customer facing meetings to support wider team
- Attendance at supplier facing meetings to support wider team
- Management of customers specifications and communication to all relevant parties where appropriate, including management of our customers technical libraries as required
- Develop strong product knowledge and lead as a product specialist in your category area
- Monthly KPI summaries
- Any other ad hoc duties
- Ensure compliance with food safety law and customer GMP.
- Ensure suppliers operate within company and ETI guidelines.
- Represent the business at appropriate forums and meetings.
- Follow and enforce all company policy & procedure.
- Flexibility to travel overseas and within the UK as required.
The duties and responsibilities listed above would be those normally required of you. However, as a member of the technical team, it is a condition of your employment that you may be asked to carry out other reasonable tasks as and when the business dictates

**Behaviours**:

- Planning and organisation
- Work under pressure to tight dead lines
- Able to analyse understand and solve problems
- Team working with other teams
- Act in a professional manner at all times
- Judgement and decision making especially under pressure
- Prioritisation skills
**Skills and knowledge**
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collate and analyse information
- Product development skills
- Computer skills Word, Excel, Power Point, Data bases
- Pesticide/Microbiological awareness
- Food hygiene basic, intermediate
- Knowledge of BRC accreditation
- Internal auditing