Jobs in Purfleet-on-Thames

Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can apply your positive communication skills to ensure the highest standards in customer satisfaction within the Chilled Food sector?
Customer Technologist Overview
The Customer Technologist role presents a unique opportunity to work directly with major retail customers, supporting a diverse range of chilled food products. You will play a key role in ensuring that products meet the required safety, quality, and ethical standards, while also building strong relationships with suppliers and internal teams.
This position is with a supplier of chilled food products to some of the biggest retailers and offers excellent career development opportunities.
Customer Technologist Key Responsibilities
* Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with retail customers, ensuring alignment on product quality and food safety standards
* Act as the technical point of contact between the customer and the supplier, ensuring clear communication of expectations, specifications, and compliance requirements
* Ensure that all product documentation, technical data, and audit results are accurately communicated and maintained in line with customer requirements
* Work closely with internal teams to manage customer technical platforms, ensuring seamless communication around quality control, product development, and compliance
* Oversee the technical aspects of new product development (NPD), ensuring that customer specifications and quality standards are met
Customer Technologist Key Requirements
* Proven experience in the chilled food or food-related sectors, particularly in a customer-facing technical role
* Familiarity with chilled food supply chains and product requirements for major retailers
* Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
* Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and experience working with technical data
* Knowledge of food safety standards, auditing practices, HACCP principles, and new product development (NPD)
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with experience using customer-facing technical platforms or ERP systems
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to work independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, detail-oriented Customer Technologist to join a leading chilled food supplier and make a meaningful impact with key retail customers. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction, this role offers significant growth potential and the opportunity to collaborate with some of the biggest names in the retail food industry.
This is a UK-based position, and applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Evidence of this right will be requested prior to the interview, if applicable