Specifications Technologist - Finished Products

Effective completion and maintenance of Customer Specifications and portal systems in line with customer category plans and Compleat Food Group agenda.

• Responsible for the completion of all customer specifications in totality including areas of raw materials, packaging and legality. NPD or EPD lead.
• Specification information is accurately written and updated as dictated by the business in a timely manner in line with customer critical paths and group level projects.
• Works alongside Procurement, Technical, Development & Packaging to ensure that these teams have acquired and maintained accurate raw material and packaging supplier information so that the information in the customer specification is up to date and accurate.
• General housekeeping is maintained including management of the specification administration process from concept, through to delist.
• Follow assigned critical paths for the delivery of customer specifications and flag if there are concerns in hitting deadlines
• Support the checking of documentation required to attach on to customer specifications as attachments.
• Conduct annual specification reviews across on your dedicated site & customer specifications.
• Ensures the portal system site contacts are kept up to date
• Brief the relevant stakeholder on all relevant online alerts, policies and procedures for approval and awareness.
Legal: Adhere to latest labelling guidelines / Customer codes of practice
• Have working knowledge of relevant customer policies and procedures.
• Good working knowledge and practice of latest customer / legislative guidelines
• Information is completed in accordance with the customer requirements and policies, and legal requirements.
• Good understanding of Meat labelling Regulations (if required)
Verify: Complete documentation in support of the product development team and wider business when required.
• Support the specification & development teams to provide information for relevant trackers as required to support in the management of NPD/EPD or customer projects
• Support development managers and chefs in recipe formulation, legal labelling, QUIDs and submission forms when required .
• Support on Recipe Professor where required.
• Work to jointly agreed critical path timings.
Launch: Support artwork process and lead at site level in order to produce legal packaging in line with Compleat, retailer and industry standards.
• Support the PD team in the approval process of all customer artworks.
• Supports the Project manager in ensuring the critical path for the artwork process is maintained and highlights if there is a risk to a project.
• Support the artwork checking process at site is fully adhered to and that artwork fully complies with customer and legal requirements.
• Upload of approval comments onto the relevant artwork portal system and to notify when new artwork is ready for approval in a timely manner if relevant.
• Supports the upload of cutter guides and information for primary packaging as supplied by the packaging technologist to customer artwork portals.
• Liaise with artwork service providers as necessary
• Maintains internal artwork folders (physical and electronic), ensuring the most up to date artwork is available.
• Track artwork costs and Debit Notes where required.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate with various teams as required by manager
• Communication with the customer technologist to sign off artwork / specifications as required.
• Support artwork meetings and as necessary internal customer meetings.
• Support in customer/audit visits to site from a customer specification perspective
• Work to technical documents and procedures.
• Work closely with the team of specification technologists/ Managers.
• Appropriate communication (written and verbal) to teams and team members.
• Attend relevant meetings, to communicate relevant information regarding current/new products when required.
• Promote safe working across site and advice immediately on unsafe work practices.
• May be required to carry out projects within the Compleat Food Group.
  
  The right candidate will have a passion for food and an enthusiasm to learn on the job in a fast paced sector of the industry. The position is suitable for a candidate looking to start or continue their career within the food manufacturer industry with minimal experience., Customer specification system experience
• HACCP / Food Safety Training
• Meat analysis experience
• Critical path management
• Food manufacturing experience within an FMCG environment
• HACCP / Food Safety Training/basic knowledge
Key Skills:
• Planning, organisation and project management
• Communicating at different levels of seniority
• Attention to detail
• Identifying solutions
• Intermediate computing skills
Qualities:
• A passion for food
• Problem solving
• Enthusiasm to learn and grow
• Self Motivated
• Flexible attitude
• Enjoys problem solving
• A team player with well-developed interpersonal skills
  
  To support the specification team in delivering all New and Existing products creating brand and customer specifications in line with Compleat Food Group and customer standards against legal labelling criteria. Support the Specification team to build and maintain positive relationships with customers and internal stakeholders. Provide professional and efficient administrative support to group wide functions and specific specification customer requests and queries.
Why The Compleat Food Group? At The Compleat Food Group we never just make food. We make food to feel good, taste good and do good for everyone. Our aim is to delight our customers and consumers every day, creating the best possible foods for shoppers needs and budgets. We value everybody who works in our organisation. Everyone is treated with respect and encouraged to thrive and develop. Together we will become number one for culture.


• Enjoy 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Training and career development
• 2 Employee Volunteering Days per year
• Online and High-street retailer discount scheme and well-being portal
• Employee well-being and community support groups
• Charity Initiatives and Team events
• 24/7 Access to Grocery Aid
• Secure your future with our company pension plan
Join us on our mission to create food that makes people and the planet feel good. The Compleat Food Group are proud to have built an inclusive and respectful culture where our colleagues feel safe, supported and valued. A place where they can bring their whole selves to work to achieve exceptional results and thrive. We continue to attract diverse talent into our teams, because we know greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life. That's why we're committed to ensuring Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do.