Food Technologist

Location: South West England | Hybrid Working AvailableSalary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Are you a food industry professional who thrives on building strong customer relationships while ensuring the highest standards of quality, food safety and compliance?

A food manufacturer is seeking a Food Technologist to join its technical team. This is a fantastic opportunity to act as the key technical interface between major customers and internal manufacturing teams, ensuring customer expectations are understood, exceeded and translated into operational excellence.

The Opportunity

As a Food Technologist, you'll play a pivotal role in managing relationships with key retail and customers, acting as the trusted technical partner across the product portfolio. You'll collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, innovation and commercial teams to deliver customer projects, manage audits, support incident management and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

This position offers significant visibility across the business and would suit someone who enjoys balancing technical expertise with customer engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of strategic customer accounts, building trusted and effective relationships.
• Act as the technical liaison between customers, manufacturing sites and internal stakeholders.
• Lead technical communication during incidents, investigations and product recalls.
• Support customer projects, product changes and value chain initiatives.
• Ensure customer standards and technical requirements are embedded across operations.
• Coordinate and manage customer audits, visits and due diligence requirements.
• Provide expert guidance on food safety, quality and compliance matters.
• Support continuous improvement activities through analysis, auditing and root cause investigation.

What We're Looking For

We're keen to speak with candidates who possess:

• A degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a related scientific discipline.
• Experience within food manufacturing, technical, quality or customer-facing technical roles.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• The ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Experience interpreting customer standards and driving compliance within manufacturing environments.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Desirable:

• HACCP Level 4 qualification.