Food Technologist

**About The Role**:
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a
**Food Technologist - Produce** to join our Technical Team.

The
**Food Technologist - Produce** is key to ensuring we deliver the best quality produce for Asda customers. You’ll play your part in ensuring our products are safe and legal, our suppliers are on-boarded and monitored in line with our due diligence protocols and product testing is conducted in a risk based manner.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:

- To risk assess, maintain and implement a UK residue testing schedule
- Regularly review label confirmations, ensuring that all Retail requirements are met
- Ensure that all company due diligence requirements are in place
- Maintain supplier approvals and implement regular due diligence is in place for suppliers, sites and specifications using internal and external platforms.
- You will be the Category technical representative for site audits and will support any traceability challenges conducted by them. You will also ensure full closure of non-conformities and corrective actions are in place
- Manage any specification amendments, publishing to all stakeholders. You will also compile various data reports as and when requested
- Manage benchmarking sessions including competitor shopping as required and report results back to key stakeholders
- Provide a weekly CPMU business update
- Feedback to suppliers on technical / quality performance
- Weekly crop reports and data will be collated and published to key stakeholders
- Monitor and record any supplier responses to inbound reds and ensure that all rejections are recorded in line with company policies
- Provide updated and relevant category information for supplier reviews
- Maintain strong working relationships with Internal colleagues, Asda and 3rd party suppliers
- To raise purchase orders and receive in invoices as required
- To manage and communicate government (HSE, APHA etc.) correspondence to key stakeholders.

**What are we looking for?**
- HACCP level 2
- BRC Lead Assessor (for Produce & Food role) experience
- Relevant experience in fresh produce or Horticulture including Plant Protection Products and testing thereof.
- Relevant experience / qualifications in sensory evaluation (benchmarking)
- Logical, evidence led thinking and data analysis
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft office - Excel, Power Point & Word
- Ability to problem solve with full confidence in decision making
- Your analysis, judgement and concise report writing will be an asset to the role

**What's in it for you?**

We are a rapidly growing and exciting business, dedicated to the development of our colleagues and committed to creating a great environment for people to come and work. In order to grow we need to find people already living our values, culture and commitment.

In return we will offer you development, a competitive salary and benefits package, inclusive of:

- 10% Asda In store Discount
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- 33 days Annual Leave - Inclusive of 8 days bank holiday
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Grocery Aid - We’ve partnered with Grocery Aid to our colleagues and their families with a wide range of emotional, practical and financial support services.
- Asda mobile Discount - 30% off a wide range of Asda Mobile bundles and add-ons for our colleagues and one of their family members.
- Asda Pet Insurance discount - Up to 10% Discount
- Exclusive Exchange Rates via Asda Money - our colleagues can get a better exchange rate for their travel money when buying currency through Asda Travel Money (TravelEx)
- Ride-to-work scheme - We work with Evans to provide our colleagues with great savings across their range of bikes, clothing and equipment.
- Plus lots more - Depending on job band, other fantastic benefits are also available including private healthcare, car allowances and long term incentive schemes.
- Free car parking

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