Raw Materials Manager

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Raw Material Manager - Central Technical Location: Spalding, Lincolnshire Contract Type: Permanent Business Area: Bakkavor Ltd Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role To ensure robust governance for food safety and integrity and support the technical and procurement strategic development of key suppliers. Develop and track horizon scanning information relevant to Bakkavor, reporting on impacts to the business where necessary. To support the completion of raw material risk assessments, investigations and audits. Escalate and communicate effectively where risk is identified. Maintain the governance procedures and build and maintain TIC Knowledge Hub Role Accountabilities Technical Standards: support site-based teams in risk assessing raw materials and facilitating discussions with suppliers as required. Understanding and applying all relevant Bakkavor, Customer and legal standards to raw materials and finished product packaging. Technical Standards: Support investigations of raw material incidents. Gather information from site and supplier sources. Support the incident management process where required. Make recommendations for improvement in supply chain where required. Create and manage incident logs and files, ensuring KPI reporting, trending and feedback into governance processes are completed on time. Technical Systems: Responsible for the review and gathering of data relevant to raw material and supply chains, for horizon scanning and risk reporting and development of Knowledge Hub on TIC. Technical Standards: Lead raw material trace tests to ensure due diligence and integrity controls for relevant raw materials. Maintain details for due diligence, escalate and make recommendations for schedule adjustment as required. Audits: Undertake relevant audits of suppliers on behalf of the group, ensuring all Bakkavor and customer technical requirements are met in full to ensure robust supply chain. Audits: To lead and present relevant raw material information where required for customers or audit purposes. Communication: Review, trend and report on industry body (FIIN, CBRI, Fera etc.), customer and regulatory sources of information. Escalate and communicate trends or incidents as required. KPI's: Develop relationships with suppliers to drive improvements, where KPI trends are identified. Lead and manage visits to suppliers where engagement is required. Communication: Establish a strong working relationship within the Central/Site Technical teams, and Procurement teams. Attend NWT meetings and lead and present KPI data when required. Technical Systems: responsible for the continued review and management of raw material governance procedures. Health & Safety: To operate in a safe working manner and support the business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety & the environment. About you Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally. Technical experience in food manufacturing. Knowledge of UK retail standards. Good computer skills especially MS Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc. Team player with a can-do approach, willing to support the wider function. Well organised with good attention to detail. Ability to prioritise, multitask and meet deadlines. Degree or similar qualification in a relevant field would be advantageous. Experience of food safety risks and risk assessment procedure. Experience of auditing food manufacturing or produce businesses. Awareness of a quality management system (QMS) in a manufacturing environment. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! 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