Customer Brands Specifications Technologist

**Position Snapshot**

**Business Area: Cereal Partners UK**
**Specification Technologist**
**Location: Welwyn Garden City or Bromborough (hybrid working - at least 1 day per week in the office) with occasional travel to other UK sites**
**Monday - Friday**

**Attractive Salary + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits**

Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discussing individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

**Position Summary**
**_We are Cereal Partners and together we make breakfast better. _**_This belief is the foundation upon which Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW) is built. As a unique joint venture between General Mills and Nestlé, we are a leading global breakfast cereal company in our own right - with a very special culture. Partnership is the secret ingredient in our business, and that means we have created a culture of togetherness that helps us do things better._
- Better Food, Better Lives, Better Planet and a Better CPW are promises that we try to live and work by, and that all adds up to a better breakfast. To us, that means providing consumers with tasty and nutritious breakfast cereals that make them feel good for the day ahead; working with customers to get the best cereal products and brands on the shelf; and supporting one another, as colleagues, to be the best we can be. That’s how we’re able bring to market some of the best-loved breakfast cereals in the world, including SHREDDIES®, SHREDDED WHEAT®, NESQUIK® and CHEERIOS®_
- We aim to make breakfast better to help people start their day in the best possible way. And we do it by working to shared values that we look for in each other: Collaboration, Commitment, Courage and Capability._
- We like to think our culture of togetherness makes us unlike any other cereal company - and a place where we can all thrive together._
- We have an exciting opportunity to join our growing own label technical services team at Cereal Partners UK. If you have the passion for cereal, a keen eye for detail and with a proven track record in successfully supporting a technical services function, then this could be the next exciting step in your career. We are a forward-thinking, fast-growing business with opportunity for long-term career development_.

**A day in the life of a Specification Technologist **

Key responsibilities will include the following:

- The co-ordination of all customer specification systems, ensuring the correct prioritisation is made to meet customer deadlines. This would include
- Completion of specifications/questionnaires aligned with internal & external customer expectations of accuracy and content, by proactively sourcing required information.
- Supporting the technical team in the calculation of nutritional and ingredient declarations.
- Checking, maintaining and managing data within specification management systems, plus ensuring that respective parties within the business are kept up to date.
- The co-ordination of the artwork approval process, which includes
- Working with internal/external teams to ensure pack copy generation that is aligned with customer specification and approval to agreed critical path.
- Supporting the technical team by providing labelling and nutritional advice.
- Managing Brandbank approvals and communication
- Supporting factory teams with customer complaint enquiries, which includes
- Analysis of data received and follow up on agreed actions.
- Completing customer scorecards and KPIs.
- Monitoring nutritional analysis; initiating corrective actions as appropriate.
- Adhoc support to the technical team, such as
- Raising POs
- Audits and customer visits
- Keeping the wider business updated of upcoming changes
- Shopping for product samples and updating master documents

**What will make you successful?**
- Competence in working with most of the retailer specification systems and having exceptional attention to detail is essential.
- Exceptional organisation skills (excellent planning and workload prioritisation skills) with an ability to problem solve/analyse data.
- A strong team player, who is a self-starter and a good communicator that has a flexible can-do approach.
- Competent IT skills (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and web-based software).
- Experience in a technical role within the food industry, or a relevant Food Science degree essential.
- Knowledge & understanding of the Own Label market.

**What you need to know**
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

Job advert posting date: 06/01/2025
Job advert closing date: 20/01/2025