Natures Way Foods
Technical Services Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Technical Services Manager
Up to £71,750 base salary | Annual Bonus | Chichester
The primary responsibility of this role is to lead and deliver food safety, technical, and compliance strategies across Nature’s Way Foods, ensuring safe, legal, and high-quality food is consistently produced. The role has accountability for supplier assurance, technical compliance systems, and ethical standards, while maintaining strong internal and external stakeholder relationships and ensuring alignment with regulatory, customer, and industry requirements.
This position plays a critical role in maintaining due diligence, supporting supplier performance, and protecting customer trust through robust compliance frameworks, auditing, and continuous improvement.
What you get from us
- Salary of £60,000 - £71,750 (dependent on experience)
- Annual bonus
- Employer matched pension up to 5%
- Health cash plan
- Flexible benefits including; Corporate gym discounts, shopping discounts, enhanced maternity & paternity policy and many more
- Access to online GP & life assurance
Key responsibilities
- Own and deliver food safety and technical compliance strategy, policy and procedure across the business.
- Lead the Supplier Assurance and Specifications team, managing supply base food safety, due diligence and integrity.
- Monitor supplier legal compliance (pesticide MRL, raw material micro) and lead investigation of out-of-spec results.
- Manage implementation and auditing of the NWF Compliance Standard across all sites.
- Report food safety and compliance KPIs to the business and deputise on key customer and third-party technical committees.
- Support delivery of the NPD/EPD growth agenda through the 7-stage development process.
- Create, implement, and continuously improve food safety and technical compliance strategies, policies, and procedures within the QMS
- Partner with senior leadership, customers, and suppliers to maintain best-in-class food safety and due diligence standards, representing NWF as required
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
You will have
- Proven auditing experience, ideally within FMCG or perishable/fresh produce categories.
- Strong understanding of UK/EU food and pesticide legislation.
- Experience working with major multiple retailers and foodservice customers, across multi-site operations.
- Excellent people management, communication and stakeholder skills, with the integrity to influence at Exec level.
- Lead Auditor / Assessor qualification.
- Advanced Food Hygiene (or equivalent) and HACCP Level 3–4.
- Degree or equivalent in Food Technology (desirable)
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
About us
Nature’s Way Foods is the leading manufacturer of prepared salads, coleslaw and “food-to-go” for supermarkets and retailers, and as such we work closely with farmers across Europe. But there’s lots more to us than the products we make.
Our culture is inclusive, and our people are diverse spanning 39 different languages. We operate four manufacturing facilities capable of producing over 400m units per year. It is an exciting time to join Nature’s Way Foods as we are growing rapidly and there are genuine opportunities to progress within the organisation.
Interested?
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
At Nature's Way Food, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to driving innovation and achieving excellence. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. We are dedicated to building a diverse team that reflects the communities we serve and the world we live in.
Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and fairer world. Together, we can become best at fresh.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills