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Overview:
**The Role and Team**

**This is a fixed-term position u**
**ntil November 2024**
**working Mon-Fri 08:30-17:00.**

This role sits within our Product Development Team and reports directly to the Senior Development Manager.

This is a pivotal role in supporting and ensuring the delivery of safe, quality foods across numerous business sectors, that meet all legislative requirements and apetito policies.

Engagement with our suppliers, as well as other apetito teams, to collate and share information on our raw materials and finished product specifications will be a key aspect of this role.

You will actively support the development team with new concept development in areas such as ingredient functionality and legislative requirements.

You will be a “go-to” source of information for our meals supporting your colleagues in areas such as dietetics, marketing and sales.

As a Food Technologist you will be supported to stay up to date with Food legislation, as you will play a key role in the implementation of any changes.

**Who We Are**

apetito is the UK’s leading supplier of food to the health and social care sectors. Servicing over 400 hospitals, 450 care homes and thousands more through our work with Local Authorities, we produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care. Through our food we look to ‘make a real difference’ to all our customers, up and down the country.

Our Values

Established in 1958, as a family-owned business, our values sit at the very heart of what we do. We are proud to be a business that ‘makes a real difference’, committed to producing ‘great food to be proud of’. We have developed a range of products designed to ‘enhance health and well-being’ for all our customers. We are proud supporters of British food and farming and focus on using the best ‘ethical and sustainably’ sourced produce.

We are driven by a ‘passion for service’, dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people, offering healthy and delicious meals to customers across the UK.

Ethical & Sustainable

As a business which operates within food manufacturing, we believe we have an obligation to make a positive contribution on society. With over 300 products in our range, we ensure our produce is ethically and sustainably sourced, working only with suppliers who share our commitment to making a positive impact.

We’re a proud member of the Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI), a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs, that promote respect for workers’ rights globally. All our new suppliers now operate under the ETI’s guidelines.

We are also a member of The UK’s Plastics Pact, an initiative looking to transform the plastic packaging industry in the UK. As part of the initiative, we have committed, along with other ambitious targets, to eliminate unnecessary single-use plastic completely by 2025.

We have also made a commitment to our employees - we’re recognised as an accredited Living Wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation. Joining an elite group of FTSE 100 companies and public sector organisations.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with suppliers to prepare, and keep updated, specifications for raw materials used on site
- Prepare apetito product specifications
- Answer product and material queries from internal stakeholders and customers
- Check artwork for accuracy and compliance
- Keep internal systems for products and recipes up to date
- Support development colleagues in the setup of new and improved products
- Drive continuous improvement

Qualifications:
**Essential**
- You will have a degree in Food Science or related discipline or proven previous experience in a similar role
- Competent user of Microsoft Office Software including Word, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint
- Comfortable and capable of working on multiple projects at one time

**Desirable**
- Previous experience preparing Food Specifications & labels
- Previous experience in Food Manufacturing

**Personal Qualities**
- Detail focussed with a structured approach to task completion
- Self-motivated and able to own and manage workload with mínimal supervision
- Able to work within a team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels in a professional manner, using both oral and written forms of communication
- Analytical thinker with ability to translate facts into usable information to support a position on a task in the workplace