Reference: 7935 MLR
Consultant:Michelle le Roux
Job Description: Maintaining brand integrity and product safety whilst performing risk mitigation. Contributing towards the category strategy, ensuring innovative and safe products of consistent quality. Develop high-quality products Managing and monitoring the technical team in order to meet the company's technical strategy, product plan, and ultimately the category strategy. Technical communication and liaison with the buying team, suppliers, quality team, and production teams. Positively influencing all contributing aspects of the supply chain to optimise quality and food safety. Responsible for leading the factory and product process audits within the production facility and supply base. Formulating and/or managing product specifications, ensuring accuracy. Ensuring effective product accept/reject criteria. Identifying and managing critical control points (CCPs) within production facilities and ensuring that suppliers identify and manage their CCPs correctly. Overseeing end-to-end quality management systems within farm production facilities and among external suppliers. Providing technical input into category, quality management, and supplier strategies and ensuring effective implementation. Overseeing packaging development, ensuring conformance to legislation. Ensuring accurate nutritional information and date marking/coding. Overseeing effective allergen management within all production facilities and among suppliers. Supplier approval/sourcing, based on basic hygiene compliance and risk management. Shelf-life assessment and implementation. Managing microbiological testing, specifying the type of tests, frequency, and accept/reject criteria for both product and environment. Improving and ensuring production efficiencies within production facilities and the supply base. Raw material sourcing and approval: ensuring that production and suppliers source from approved raw material suppliers, and that specifications and allergen management practices are in place. Troubleshoot customer complaints and perform route cause analyses. Uphold international standards for food manufacturing and processing, using cutting-edge equipment, processing technology knowledge, and experience Qualifications: BSc Food Science or BTech Food Technology degree with 10 – 15 years of industry experience. Relevant retail experience is required. How to Apply: Email your comprehensive CV to ******. If you are already registered, please forward your CV and the relevant reference number to the consultant with whom you are currently registered in order to avoid duplicity on our system. We reserve the right to only conduct interviews with candidates of choice. Applicants who have not received feedback within 30 days from the closing date must please accept their application as unsuccessful.
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