Senior Supplier Technologist - FTC

As Senior Supplier Technologist, you'll be pivotal in building and maintaining strong relationships with our raw material suppliers.  

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic team, ensuring right first time quality of raw material supply into our manufacturing sites. 

As part of this team, your focus will be to manage a supplier portfolio, ensuring effective supplier management and raw material quality. Leading and driving effective supplier relationships and building effective supplier management and raw material plans. Working collaboratively with procurement, NPD and site teams. Ensuring our suppliers meet business and customer requirements. Leading and driving continuous improvement in our supply base.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a portfolio of raw materials and suppliers
• Effective management through risk assessment and performance
• Evaluate and approve potential and new suppliers in your category
• Work cross functionally to drive cost out across our suppliers
• Working with procurement and development to ensure appropriate suppliers / ingredients available to support innovation and business continuity needs
• Ensure supplier specifications are accurate and include all appropriate characteristics necessary to enable right first-time quality for operations 

Working hours: 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

The important things:

• Experience in Quality & Food safety management
• Supplier Management experience
• Strong People and Communication skills
• Effective Networking and Influencing skills
• Ability to operate effectively at all levels across the business
• Great at building relationships internally and externally

Even better if:

• You have a Science Degree or similar Degree
• You have Audit/Lead auditor experience
• You have HACCP level 4

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays 
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.