Food Chemistry Consultant
Job Description
Job title: Food Chemistry Consultant
Company: Eurofins
Job description: Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Job Description
Please note this is a part time position, working 22.5 hours per week over three days. This is a home based role, with occasional travel to Wolverhampton and customer sites as required.
The purpose of this role is to be a specialist within the field of Food Chemistry, providing technical advice and consultancy to clients and the business, and to lead and work on projects in partnership with stakeholders. Main duties to include:
- Provide a high level of technical advice on Food Chemistry and Risk Management to the UK Food Testing business, its customers and other stakeholders.
- Project Manage the entire lifecycle of a project from start to finish, including the planning, execution and monitoring, to ensure the project delivers the agreed objectives on time and within budget.
- Manage and work on internal and customer Food Chemistry and Innovation projects.
- Collaborate with and support the Retail and Risk Management teams on Food Chemistry matters, including the development of risk assessments, surveillance sampling programs, incident investigation, horizon-scanning and insights.
- Pro-active approach to the sharing of data on emerging risks and trends in food authenticity and food contaminants. Review retailer testing programs and advise where additional testing may be required.
- Interpret food chemistry test results, provide conclusions and identify any potential risks or other testing that maybe required.
- Foster and develop relationships with the various Eurofins Centre of Excellence sites, specifically in the areas of contaminants and authenticity.
- When appropriate, support the retail team with the identification of test methods relevant to food chemistry and retailer monitoring plans.
- Provide technical advice and support to the Analytical Service Manager, Customer Services and Commercial teams, including attending customer meetings as required.
- Support in the design and development of food chemistry consultancy services relevant to retailers and food manufacturers.
- Be pro-active in promoting the risk-based approach to testing and relevant consultancy offerings, both internally and externally.
- Provide training courses for the business and customers, as and when required.
- Support investigations into complaints and queries regarding test results.
- Keep up to date with new test methods, to support the rational for testing and be pro-active in driving conversations with customers.
- Keep up to date with food chemistry testing, regulatory requirements and food industry news, and communicate internally as required.
- Mentor and coach staff to increase specialist testing and industry knowledge.
- Participate in and represent Eurofins at conferences and other events.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent in Food Chemistry.
- A strong understanding of the latest theory and developments within Food chemistry. Knowledge of UKAS, ISO methods and RSA requirements where applicable
- A strong understanding of food authenticity and contaminants and the legislative framework.
- Experience of working with a broad range of internal and external customers.
- Experience of providing training to both employees and external customers.
- Competence in IT, including LIMS, spreadsheets and databases.
- Ability to interpret present and explain complex information.
- Ability to analyse specialist results.
- Excellent presentation, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills that engages key stakeholders.
- Strong organisational, multi-tasking and time management skills.
- Cross-functional working.
- Commitment to customer care.
- Project Management.
- A positive ‘can do’ attitude that instils confidence in key.
Additional Information
Benefits
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
- Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
- Company Pension Plan
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay scheme
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Free car parking
- Worldwide career opportunities
- Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it’s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you’ll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it’s requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
Expected salary:
Location: Wolverhampton
