Senior Technical Manager
Senior Technical Manager
£60,000 to £75,000 plus great benefits including 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare for you (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home, the office at least once a week and at least 2 days a week travelling nationwide to our supplier base (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
We're looking for a Senior Technical Manager to join our food propositions team here at Co-op. In this role you'll lead a category team who will deliver technical excellence, protecting Co-op's brand quality and reputation. We'll look to you to be connected to any external industry discussions, making sure that Co-op are at the cutting edge of sustainable and resilient food systems and supply chains.This role provides an exciting opportunity to trial new ways of working and to be part of the fastest growing own brand in the current market.
What you'll do- Work with supplier partners to make sure Co-op products are made with technical excellence at the heart
- Prioritise workload for your category team, making sure that food safety and technical excellence are at the heart of this
- Engage with the wider food industry, making sure we are at the forefront of insight for the category you lead
- Be engaged and up to date with any regulation changes, making sure that everything we do is safe, legal, and compliant
- Appropriately coach your team through high-pressured situations, making sure regulations are followed and strategically plan to negate future risk to our company and brand
- Look for opportunities to help the team to continuously improve from a food safety perspective
- Actively manage our supply base, making visits nationwide
- Experience working in food safety
- HACCP / GMP or BSc in Food Science or related subjects
- Experience in Food technical roles
- The ability to network and build relationships with the food industry and supplier base whilst also managing manufacturing sites
- Previous experience leading a team in a fast paced and collaborative environment
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare for you
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.