The Company

This is a great opportunity to join a well-established food manufacturer known for producing high-quality products across multiple categories. Supplying all the UK’s major retailers, the business is continuing to grow and innovate. As they expand their technical capabilities, they’re looking for an experienced Senior Specifications Technologist to lead on key customer accounts and mentor a team.

The Role

Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, you’ll take responsibility for writing and managing specifications across a wide range of UK major retail and customer accounts. You’ll act as a subject matter expert for key retail portals and artwork systems, ensuring specifications are completed to the highest standards, right first time and on time. This is a hands-on, detail-driven role, where you’ll also support internal teams across NPD, technical, and supply chain to make sure every product is fully compliant and launch-ready.

As part of the wider technical function, you’ll play a key role in supporting internal audits, managing critical paths, coordinating artwork approval processes, and training more junior team members. You’ll also be the go-to contact for retailer updates, legislation changes, and system notifications, helping the business stay aligned with customer expectations and industry standards.

This is a varied and fast-paced role that requires confident communication with both internal teams and external partners, including retailers, print houses, and suppliers.

The Person

We’re looking for an experienced Specifications Technologist with a strong track record of working across major UK retailer accounts. You’ll be confident using multiple specification systems (e.g. Hamilton Grant, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Aldi, Lidl), with a solid understanding of customer codes of practice, labelling requirements, and artwork processes. Experience mentoring a small team would be ideal. Knowledge of packaging sustainability schemes (FSC, RSPO, UTZ) and Brexit-related export requirements would be a plus.

If you’re a technically minded, detail-driven food professional with a passion for getting things right first time, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today or get in touch for a confidential chat.

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