Raw Materials Technologist: Supplier Quality & Food Safety

At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to nurture & nourish people & planet by making great food the right way, forever. As a co‑owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly. As our Raw Materials Technologist you will be responsible for supporting the supplier management team by ensuring all suppliers and raw materials meet our due diligence requirements, ethical and quality standards. You will build great relationships with our suppliers and have a keen eye for detail to ensure that we have all the information needed to deliver our development projects effectively and right the first time, ensuring accurate information is available on our systems for all raw materials and relevant suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain supplier raw materials specifications
• Ensure new and revised ingredients meet all legal requirements including food labelling laws
• Manage and maintain the authenticity risk register and chains of custody for raw materials
• Ensure certificates, self‑audit questionnaires and other due diligence documentation is held for all suppliers
• Support New Product Development by overseeing the approval of new ingredients and suppliers through to kitchen stage by checking suitability and assessing quality and food safety risks
• Set up new raw materials in Data Hub (IFS) and on QMS
• Support traceability challenges at sites providing supplier, packaging and ingredient information
• Work with the Supplier Technologists to continuously review current ways of working and look for improvements
• To support with projects across the Central Manufacturing - Technical department as required
• Managing Change Requests (CRF) against RM specifications and cross‑functional business check‑ins as required
• Preparing annual reports for retailer third‑party reporting (3Keel)

Essential

• Highly organised and logical
• Fantastic attention to detail
• Good IT, numerical and presentation skills
• Good understanding of food labelling requirements
• Experience of working in food manufacturing
• Good people and communication skills

Desirable

• Food safety level 3
• Allergen and micro training
• Microsoft Dynamics experience

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1,700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yoghurts.

Benefits

• Competitive holiday allowance
• 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.