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Customer Technologist

Employer
Silven Recruitment Limited
Location
Kent
Salary
c£38k + benefits
Closing date
16 Aug 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Development, Technical
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Customer Technologist

Location: South East London / Kent
Salary: c£38k + benefits.

My client, the UK's largest provider of fresh produce to all major retailers, is looking for a Customer Technologist to join their expanding Technical team. Responsible for their two biggest customers, your job is to ensure their premium, high-care products are in-line with Customer codes of practice and technical requirements.

You:

  • Tesco experience and familiar with their codes of practice
  • HACCP, Auditing, Food Safety qualification would be advantageous.
  • Minimum of 3 year experience in a food technical role (customer facing)
  • Experience of a high care, ready-to-eat environment and preferably with fresh produce
  • Ability to work cross functionally and a good communicator.


Responsibilities:

  • Ensure that strong and proactive relationships are built with retailer's technical representatives and that all requests and tasks are managed efficiently both for individual accounts and across the wider customer technical team.
  • Represent the business in customer technical meetings, conferences, bench-markings, visits, audits and other customer events, feeding back relevant information to the wider team and following up actions appropriately.
  • Exchange quality and availability information with customers throughout the season
  • Proactively engage with the retailer's technical representative to ensure continuous and mutually beneficial development of the account
  • Ensure there is adequate provision of technical support to the factory and wider team to ensure compliance with customer requirements


To apply please send your CV keeley.grindrod@silven.co.uk quoting ref KG/5583 or call 0161 832 7463 for a confidential chat.

Company

The Silven team is full of passionate, committed and personable people, who have built their careers recruiting into their specialist markets.

We’ve developed many long standing client and candidate relationships along the way; mainly because we delight in helping companies to realise their plans and in assisting candidates to advance their careers.

If you are a client or candidate seeking advice and a service based on experience and knowledge of your market, we’d love to hear from you. Contacting us could be the best thing you do today.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0845 0036872
Location
Clarence House
4 Clarence Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 4DW
GB

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