Premier Inn
Senior Manager Food Technology
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Senior Manager Food Technology
Senior Manager - Food Technology
Location: Dunstable, LU5 Working Arrangement: Hybrid working (3 days per week)
As Whitbread’s Senior Manager - Food Technology, you will shape and deliver the end-to-end food technical strategy across Whitbread and Premier Inn—setting the standards for food safety, integrity, legality, and quality. You’ll oversee all technical service provision through NSF and other partners, ensuring robust due diligence, consistent compliance, and continuous improvement in efficiency and effectiveness.
Bringing a practical, evidence-led, and commercially balanced mindset, you will:
- Manage food-related risks
- Strengthen senior-level supplier relationships
- Build joint strategies that enhance brand performance while protecting guest trust
- Represent Whitbread externally through industry insight and networks to influence wider agendas and anticipate regulatory/market changes
As Whitbread’s voice of food technical expertise, you will:
- Lead governance frameworks, KPIs, and reporting
- Drive cross-functional collaboration
- Build high-performing teams
- Oversee the annual food risk review, ensuring frameworks and mitigation plans remain current
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Responsibilities
Risk & Compliance Leadership
- Lead the annual Food Risk Review
- Update critical risk tools
- Ensure operational controls reflect changes in internal/external landscapes
Governance & Crisis Management
- Own governance framework and technical policy reviews
- Lead crisis management for food safety, integrity, and legality incidents
Service Provider & Audit Oversight
- Manage NSF and other service partners
- Ensure effective audit/testing plans and continuous improvement
- Garantee full compliance with agreed scopes
Supply Base Quality & Performance
- Drive supplier governance, quality, and consistency programmes
- Develop raw material strategy
- Deliver alignment with brand and ESG goals across supply base
Quality Culture & External Representation
- Foster a strong internal quality culture
- Conduct regulatory horizon scanning and action planning
- Represent Whitbread externally to shape industry standards
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Why You’ll Love It Here
- 20% bonus potential
- 10% matched contributory pension
- Up to 60% off Premier Inn and Hub stays
Requirements
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Safety, or a related discipline
- Strong working knowledge of:
- Food safety legislation
- Industry standards and regulatory frameworks
- Significant experience in a senior technical role within:
- Food manufacturing
- Hospitality
- Retail sectors
- Ability to apply technical judgment in complex or fast-paced operational settings
- Experience ensuring effective food governance and reporting for:
- Food safety, integrity, legality, and quality
- Technical policies & reviews (allergens, quality, nutrition)
- Led crisis management for food safety/integrity/legality incidents as a Food Technology Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Proven track record in supply base governance (safety & quality)
- Member of IFST (Institution of Food Science and Technology) or equivalent organisations
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