Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

* Career progression opportunities.

* Stable growing organisation.

* Immediate start.

* 25 days holiday Plus Bank Holidays

Working Hours

* Mon-Fri 8.30am - 5pm

MTrec's New Opportunity;

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious engineering client, based near Newcastle, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Specifications Manager. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. Our client will be soon entering a period of sustained growth and expansion as they widen their customer portfolio, with a significant number of high value orders for many years into the future. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment and great team culture.

The Job You'll Do;

* Build and maintain relationships with all UK Customers and act as the primary point of contact for all customer queries.

* Manage the entire specification process for products, from initial request to final specification completed

* Build and maintain relationships with all sourcing entities for manufacturing sites suppling UK customers.

* Ensuring Food labelling and regulatory checks are completed for all UK & EU products

* Technical representative at C2L Project Meetings, responsible for communicating key details back to wider team.

* Update the C2L project tracker with relevant project details, relating to specification, artwork timing etc

* Provide technical support and guidance to the R&D

* Responsible for ensuring and where needed the specification generation process from receiving the Product Information Sheet (PIS / PIP) at the Industrialise stage of a project through to specification approval.

* Where relevant, creating specifications on various customer portals, TQC, MCreate, Engage, APP, Wave etc within project deadlines

* Responsible for tracking & spend of Specification & Cost of doing business budget. i.e. specification, customer portal, customer audit, customer own testing costs etc.

About You;

* Degree or HND in Food technology or equivalent

* Level 3 Food Safety

* Level 3 HACCP

* Computer literacy (Microsoft packages), SharePoint.

* Minimum 2 years' experience in a managerial role in a FMCG manufacturing environment.

* Minimum 2 years' experience of managing a specification process within the Food Industry

* Minimum 2 years' experience in UK Retailer supplier food manufacturing environment

* Thorough understanding of retailer practices and frameworks

* UK & EU Food Labelling experience

* Analytical, with good communication and organisational skills

* Highly motivated and capable of independent analysis

* Dedicated and tenacious Team Leader