The Bread Factory is London’s leading Artisan Bakery, known for award-winning breads, pastries, and cakes, supplying top-quality products across e-commerce, grocery, food services, and retailers such as our GAIL’s Bakeries nationwide. As our teams grow, we seek our next Raw Material and Supplier Technologist to join our team.
We Care about a Job Well Done:
Since 1993, we have been champions in traditional baking with the finest ingredients and techniques. We always do things the right way, not the easy way.
We Care about Baking:
At The Bread Factory, all our teams take pride in crafting beautiful, freshly baked loaves, pastries, and cakes. We are all passionate about our products and share knowledge among us all.
We Care about Each Other:
We always act with respect, empathy, and support to our employees, neighbours and customers.
We Care about Community:
We believe in minimising unsustainable practices and reducing waste while ensuring we continue to provide everyone with nutritious high-quality food.
Every day is different at The Bread Factory, but here are some of the things you will be doing:
1. Ensure Raw Material specifications are up to date and liaise with Specifications Technologist to ensure RM & Finished product specifications are aligned.
2. Approving raw material and packaging specifications ensuring supplier documentation meets due diligence standards.
3. Complete traces for audits and to the site schedule.
4. Managing and maintaining all raw material data and KPI’s, identifying any trends.
5. Investigate customer complaints or any non-conformance raised internally or externally to provide data which informs resolution with suppliers.
6. Ensure compliance with updated customer technical policies, current labelling standards, and include all regulatory changes that will impact back of pack information.
7. Follow relevant process development procedures, ensuring these are documented correctly and are compliant with internal and customer standards.
8. Support Raw Material and Supplier Assurance Manager with audits of suppliers.
9. Liaise and support procurement team with sourcing of new suppliers ensuring they achieve the correct standard prior to approval.
10. Support in the development of VACCP and supplier risk assessment documentation and procedures.
Our team tells us you will be a great addition if you have experience in:
1. Good literacy and numeracy skills.
2. Accuracy and attention to detail.
3. Organised and good time management.
4. Good written and verbal communication skills.
5. Influencing and expectation management skills.
6. BSc or above professional qualification in Food Safety or similar field (Desirable).
7. 3+ years food manufacturing experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
8. Level 3 HACCP (Desirable).
9. VACCP (Desirable).
10. Internal Audit Training.
11. Proficient in Microsoft packages.
What’s in it for you:
1. Fresh bread daily to take home to enjoy with family and friends.
2. 50% discount at GAIL’s and 40% off at The Bread Factory & The Flour Station Markets.
3. 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
4. Discounts and Savings from high-street retailers and restaurants.
5. 24-hour GP service.
6. Cycle to work scheme.
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