At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead supplier technical assurance in fresh produce, ensuring quality and compliance.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on sustainability and food safety.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, incentive scheme, pension, and private medical insurance.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth in a collaborative environment with strong supplier relationships.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food safety and quality in the supply chain.
- Qualifications: Experience in supplier assurance and knowledge of compliance standards required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Job opportunity: Supplier Technical Manager
Hours: 40 per week
Working pattern: 0800 – 1630
Location: St Mary Bourne (nr Andover) with travel to our farms and suppliers
Salary: competitive with eligibility for incentive scheme, company pension and private medical insurance
Can you lead supplier technical assurance across a fresh produce supply chain, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance? Are you confident acting as the key link between growers, suppliers and factory teams to drive performance, resolve challenges and deliver continuous improvement?
In this role…
- Support and advise our farms and suppliers in meeting requirements on food safety and due diligence with the sharing of best practice
- Act as the key technical link between growers, suppliers, factory teams and customers
- Manage supplier risk, proactively identifying and resolving crop quality, pest, disease and food safety challenges
- Lead supplier visit and auditing programmes covering crop quality, ethical and food safety topics with collaborative agreement with procurement based on risk assessment
- Influence supplier performance through collaboration with procurement, agronomy, technical and commercial teams
- Drive improvements in quality, shelf life, sustainability and overall supply chain capability
You’ll do this for us…
- Manage supplier due diligence, onboarding and compliance documentation across raw materials and ingredients
- Lead supplier audit and visit programmes covering crop quality, food safety and ethical standards
- Monitor microbiological and pesticide residue testing programmes and drive corrective actions where needed
- Review crop risk, pre-harvest assessments and HACCP compliance across the supply base
- Produce weekly crop quality reports and track supplier performance through KPIs and end-of-season reviews
- Support customer visits, internal teams and investigations while building strong supplier relationships and sharing best practice
- Drive improvements in quality, shelf life, sustainability and supplier capability
- Manage web-based platforms such as Food Experts and Land App, plus any relevant customer portals
- Actively participate in weekly farm and supplier meetings and write crop reports for customers
You can do this if you have…
- Proven experience in supplier assurance, auditing, quality and compliance within fresh produce or agri-food supply chains
- Strong knowledge of BRCGS, Red Tractor, Global GAP, LEAF and ethical compliance standards
- Solid understanding of farm risk assessments and ideally HACCP Level 3 certification
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with a proactive, customer-focused mindset
- Commercial awareness and the ability to drive continuous improvement across suppliers
- A degree in Food Science, Agri-Food or other relevant area
- A qualification in BASIS and/or FACTS would be advantageous
We think you need these skills to ace Supplier Technical Manager in Andover
Supplier Technical Assurance
Food Safety Compliance
Quality Management
Auditing Skills
BRCGS Knowledge
Red Tractor Standards
Global GAP Standards
