Purpose: To lead and manage a customer-facing, technically-focused Commodity team that provides Product Quality Assurance, Technical Audit and Authorisation for hundreds of food products required for the provision of Food to Armed Forces personnel. Main Duties & Responsibilities: · Provide leadership and Subject Matter Expertise to Team Leidos Defence Food and develop their skills and talents. · Ensure that the Technical Manager and Food Technologist post holders are suitably experienced and qualified to carry out the activities required of the role. · Engage with the individual food supply contractors to ensure that procedures and process are implemented and operating effectively for the following: o Ordering food. o Delivery and receipt of food. o Issue of account numbers and accounting procedures. o UK and Overseas exercises. o Ordering for Ships & Submarines. o Quality Assurance. o Operations, Periods of Crisis and War. · Deliver the Defence Food element of Commodity Support Services to ensure the customer receives quality products On Time In Full (OTIF). · To develop and improve/refine Food Commodity Process and Procedures. · Utilising the Technical Manager and Food Technologist post holdersto maintain a Food Safe Environment and Deliver an assured safety and environmental system for procured Food items. · Engaging with Defence Food Category ensure ...