Head of Technical

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Location
Bridgwater
Salary
70000.00 - 85000.00 GBP Annual + + cGBP80 + Benefits
Posted
20 Apr 2017
Closes
18 May 2017
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Head of Technical, Senior Technical Manager, Bridgwater, Somerset, FMCG Food Manufacturing

We are recruiting for a Head of Technical on behalf of a leading Food Manufacturing Company based in Bridgwater, Somerset.

The Role:

- It will involve leading a team of 30 people across food compliance, food technical and food operations and reporting direct to the MD.
- You will have strong dotted line reports to the Commercial Director (New Product Development & Food Innovation) and the Manufacturing Director (Operational Food Quality). Your team will cover approximately 850 SKU's, 30 production lines across 4 factories, on site laboratories and warehouses.
- The main purpose of this role is to lead the food technical function, ensuring that it maintains a high degree of customer focus and that it represents the face of manufacturing and commercial in all food technical and food quality related matters.
- A practical knowledge of new product development and food innovation is also essential.
- Critically this is a customer facing role and as such you will need to ensure all products are manufactured in-line with customer standards and food safety legislation.

Ideal Candidate:

- You will be an experienced senior food technical manager having lead medium to large sized teams in a food technical function in the food and drinks manufacturing industry sector.
- Our current technical team is very experienced, so will require a leader who is similar and able to motivate and drive the existing team to greater success with a situational leadership style.
- Most importantly you will be commercially savvy having worked with the big UK retailers at a technically senior level with a track record of having worked alongside commercial teams to win the right business.
- This is a role that in time, could encompass the areas of NPD and food innovation and the ideal candidate will also have experience of these areas, having brought to market successful products both within retail and brand spaces.

Salary: circa GBP80K (depending on experience)

+ attractive bonus , company pension, company car allowance and family health care

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