Quality Assurance Administrator - Nutrition - Full Time - Wimbledon. South West London
- Employer
- Lidl
- Location
- Wimbledon
- Salary
- • Up to £24,000 per annum (subject to experience)
- Closing date
- 6 Jul 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Quality Assurance
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
The Quality Assurance department ensures the quality and safety of all Lidl GB own brand products, through a structured programme of testing, auditing and enforcing compliance.You will join a growing Nutrition team to implement a calorie reduction program. Ensuring and maintaining the safety and high quality of our products, whilst working to meet Government and industry targets.
What will you do?
- Ensuring the collation of accurate information is maintained
- Maintaining historical nutrition information
- Regularly reviewing market trends
- Identifying relevant artwork to update databases
- Creating and managing the calorie reduction database
- Supporting salt and sugar reduction programs
- Monitoring competitor positions in salt, sugar and calories
- Supporting the Nutrition team in influencing product development
- Carrying out sensory analysis of revised nutrient products
- Assisting in any other Quality Assurance related tasks
What will you need?
- A degree in a nutrition/food science related discipline is essential
- Excellent knowledge of current and emerging Government reduction schemes
- Analytically minded, pragmatic and highly professional
- Able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Keen eye for detail
- Organised with strong time management skills
- Strong multi tasker who enjoys working to schedules and deadlines
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Good presentation skills and confident when presenting to an audience
- UK driving license is desired
- Highly competent user of Microsoft excel
- German would be advantageous but is not essential
What do we offer?
- Up to £24,000 per annum (subject to experience)
- An additional 10% of your annual salary as a non-contractual London Weighting benefit
- 30 days annual leave per annum, pro rata (including Bank Holidays)
- A contributory pension scheme
- 10% discount on all Lidl products, in all stores throughout the UK
- Access to corporate discounts on a range of products and services (including holidays, home and garden products. Leisure activities and more)
- Initial training and on-going development from an experienced team manager
Company
Lidl's history goes back to the 1930s, when the company was founded in Germany as a grocery wholesaler. Today, Lidl is one of the largest grocery retailers in Europe.
The first Lidl stores were opened in 1973 and by the 1980s Lidl was a household name throughout Germany. During the 1990s Lidl started to open stores outside Germany and today Lidl stores can be found in nearly every country in Europe. Lidl is now well established as a major European food retailer. Our extensive network of stores is unmatched in the discount sector.
Lidl takes pride in providing top quality products at the lowest possible prices to all our customers across Europe. Our stores are operated by a network of dedicated store staff, helping to establish and further develop the success of the company. Lidl will continue to play a major role in the exploration of new markets in Europe and beyond.
Since establishing ourselves in the UK in 1994, we have grown consistently and today have more than 580 stores, and there are plenty more to come...
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