Product Specialist – Salads & Exotics

Overview

As Product Expert for Salads & Exotics, you champion product quality, safety and category knowledge within our Technical & Product team. You guide seasonal transitions, support intake standards, and deliver hands-on learning for operations and intake colleagues. You’ll build strong supplier and site partnerships to ensure consistently fresh, safe produce. You’ll use data-driven insights to improve quality and streamline intake, shaping our produce category.

Pay / Benefits

• generous holiday entitlement
• discretionary bonus scheme
• 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores
• 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• career progression and development opportunities
• subsidised staff canteen

Responsibilities

• Champion food safety, quality, and product integrity across blueberry and grape ranges
• Provide seasonal guidance, training, and skill-building for technical intake and packhouse teams
• Oversee freshness checks, shelf-life studies, quality reviews, and intake validations
• Collaborate with Procurement, At Source teams, Technical Managers, and Site Operations on category trends and supplier relationships
• Ensure product specifications and site guidelines align with safety standards, BRC, and internal best practices
• Use product insights and data to improve quality, streamline intake processes, and address technical challenges

Key requirements

• Relevant experience or a degree in science, food technology, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, manufacturing or business
• Knowledge of safety, legality, compliance and quality across supply chain and produce range
• Experience/knowledge of high risk with thermal processing
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and solution-focused problem solving
• Proven track record in people management and delivering results through a team
• Strong work ethic and can-do attitude

• excellent communication
• solution-focused
• team leadership
• quality assurance
• safety standards knowledge (BRC)
• data analysis for quality improvements

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