Ingredients Manager
Role Overview
The role begins in a focused project team for 12–18 months, identifying opportunities to improve value, reduce complexity, and deliver business benefits without compromising food quality.
As project outputs are embedded, the role transitions to a broader Ingredients Manager remit within the development team.
The role is based at apetito’s UK Head Office in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
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Role overview
The role begins in a focused project team for 12–18 months, identifying opportunities to improve value, reduce complexity, and deliver business benefits without compromising food quality.
As project outputs are embedded, the role transitions to a broader Ingredients Manager remit within the development team.
The role is based at apetito’s UK Head Office in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Initial project responsibilities
- Deliver ingredient, raw material, packaging, and finished product opportunities that improve cost, quality, consistency, operational performance, and customer proposition.
- Partner with Procurement, suppliers, project teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to develop viable ideas and implement solutions.
- Manage an opportunity pipeline with defined benefits, plans, timings, dependencies, risks, resources, and governance.
- Challenge unnecessary cost, complexity, duplication, and over-specification while safeguarding food safety, compliance, quality, customer expectations, and operations.
- Evaluate ingredients, materials, and finished products through assessments, trials, technical validation, and impact analysis.
- Drive approved changes through specification, change control, data, trial approval, and implementation processes.
Ingredients Manager responsibilities
- Lead introduction of new and improved raw materials, packaging, and finished goods after the initial 12–18 months.
- Lead Food Technologists and the NPD Raw Material and Change Control Coordinator, aligning priorities, workload, resources, and projects.
- Ensure product information and specifications are delivered accurately and in compliance with relevant legislation and policies.
Candidate profile
- Proven track record delivering cross-functional projects within food manufacturing.
- Technical expertise, commercial awareness, and project management discipline.
- Ability to balance cost, complexity, quality, and risk in a commercially thoughtful way.
- Highly organized, energetic, and results-focused, with the ability to structure complex work and prioritize valuable opportunities.
- Ability to work through ambiguity with pace, resilience, and sound judgment.
About apetito
apetito supplies food to health and social care sectors, including care homes, healthcare, and education settings.
Wiltshire Farm Foods, apetito’s sister company, supplies frozen ready meals across the UK.
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