A role as a Trainee Technical Account Manager has become available at our Cross Hands site. This is an opportunity for a highly motivated, career minded individual to progress their career within the Food Safety & Quality department whilst liaising with key UK retailers.
Responsibilities
* To work collaboratively between the customer and the company, ensuring that we cascade and deliver the Food Safety & Quality requirements of the customer to the Technical and wider functions within the site.
* Develop strong relationships with both the customers and the wider site teams and to help establish Dunbia as the supplier of choice with the customer.
* To be responsible for protecting at all times, the integrity of the company through positive and constructive actions and attitude.
* Represent the Food Safety & Quality department in a positive and pro‑active manner at customer head office meetings, including development gate meetings, technical reviews, product reviews etc.
* To organise customer visits and audits to the factory, including the management of post‑visit actions.
* Liaise with New Product Development department with respect to food safety aspects of launching new products.
* Regularly review KPI’s and drive actions along with the site teams to continually improve KPI’s.
* Review artwork of primary packaging; sleeves / labels to ensure legal and accurate.
* Management of raw material & finished product specifications and factory quality attribute sheets.
* Conduct product assessments to ensure production adherence to agreed standards.
Qualifications
* 1 years + Food industry experience preferably
* Science/ Food Science/ other related discipline qualification at higher education level
* Exposure to the understanding of retailers
* Organisational skills to enable the management and development of multiple projects
* Understanding and working knowledge of food science, legal labelling, audit requirements and of customer technical requirements
* Confidence to manage customers and key stake holders in a fast paced environment
* Effective communication skills, both written and verbal at all levels
* Ability to work effectively within a team and on your own initiative
* Willing to build knowledge base above and beyond core experience
* Full UK Driving Licence
No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position.
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