Administrator

**Administrator, KT16 (Chertsey) - upto £28,000 pa + 10% bonus + Company bonus + benefits**
**Hybrid: WFH and office based 1-2 days** (KT16) - Full Time - Permanent - Monday-Friday **Great Opportunity**

**A Food background would be an advantage/supply chain experience.**

**Polish speaking an advantage but not essential.**
The technical team is responsible for the safety, quality and legality of all food and drink products.

**Aim of role**:
To support the technical team with administrative technical tasks relating to the daily running of the business and any strategic projects to drive the business forward. Ideal person to have held an administrative position in a fast moving industry.

**Key Tasks for the Administrator**:

- Providing administrative support to the Technical team.
- Managing, filing and sending key documentation relating to imports and exports, such as health certificates, commodity codes, production statements.
- Completing Import & Export systems as required - IPAFFS, TRACES, Port Health Authority systems
- Liaising with suppliers on various issues.
- Assist in the setup of new system (supplier and specification management system) - system checking, supplying information to SGS and assisting with the migration of data as required.
- Assisting with the laboratory testing regime and internal quality sampling procedure, sample procurement & ordering for team - dealing with samples on arrival.
- Management of the sample process.
- Logging and managing customer complaints and ensuring the process is followed.
- Completing reports as required.
- Invoice checking and sign off.
- Any other reasonable requests to accomplish the company objectives.

**External Liaison**:

- Manufacturers, distributors, warehouse operations.
- Customers.
- 3rd party organizations as required.

**Desired**:Ability to speak a 2nd language.

**Personal Attributes**:

- A passion for food; cooking or eating out.
- Good communication skills, a like for talking to people.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Composure, resilience and ability to cope under pressure.
- Tenacity, drive for results.
- Confident, self-starter.
- Pragmatic approach able to work effectively in cross functional teams.
- Good time management skills and ability to prioritise workload.
- Adaptable.
- Team Player.

**Salary includes**:

- 4 weeks holiday plus bank holidays.
- Quarterly bonus.
- Company bonus.
- Pension.
- Company benefits after 3 months:

- Private Medical Insurance.
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection.

**About Us**:
We are an assembly of bright, talented individuals with diverse backgrounds bringing together our skills to foster entrepreneurism, creativity, fun and success. We love food and pride ourselves on bringing some of Europe’s finest products to an ever more demanding customer. In order to continue to do this and grow our business, we are committed to investing in people and projects. We positively encourage an atmosphere of adding value to our customers, dynamism, bringing new ideas and rewarding success. Specialising in the import and distribution of a variety of products such as dairy, world foods and continental meats, we serve a number of different markets, including the major retailers, discount brands, convenience sector and food service industry.

Our business has seen consistent growth since it was founded 20 years ago and we are proud that our customers and manufacturers have chosen to work with us. Our sales are now over £85m and we have more than 600 products from over 90 manufacturers across Europe. We care about the future of our planet and are developing ways of increasing the sustainability of our products and in the work we do. We have exciting plans for our business and believe it is set to grow still further in the coming years.

**If you have a 2nd Language preferably Polish we would love to hear from you**

**If you have experience of Quality Control or supply chain in a previous role we would like to hear from you.