Sensory and Systems Manager

Join our team and make a difference in the food industry! As a key member of our organization, your role will be to provide exceptional sensory services, ensuring the highest quality for our beloved Weetabix brands. You will also play a vital part in optimizing our new product development process by offering valuable insights.

Your responsibilities will also include efficiently coordinating scientific services and system support. Your expertise will play a crucial role in maintaining laboratory accreditation and ensuring that our business unit is always ready to operate 365 days a year. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with international registration standards.

The Recipe for Success !

• To manage the Sensory facility including all aspects of Health & Safety, budget, and equipment/method performance


• To deliver the Sensory testing service to meet service level requirements and KPIs


• To lead an effective team through clear objectives to achieve performance goals


• To provide expert advice on sensory related work to key areas of the business including NPD, Innovation, Marketing, Manufacturing and Quality, Our differences 'Make the Difference' and have a 'Brilliant People' culture where we believe that our people can do their best work when they can bring their best selves to work every day.


We value diversity, as it sparks creativity, innovation, and ultimately better business performance.

We recruit and develop people who are best suited to the requirements of the role on offer and our talent and succession programmes are grounded in ensuring that 'Talent Matters' and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are supported to fulfil their unique potential.

By joining our team, you will be part of helping ensure we continue our 'Inclusion without Exception' journey and help 'Make the Difference'.


• Strong alignment to the Weetabix values


• Always curious to find new and better ways of working


• 2-3 years of laboratory/food safety/Quality or sensory experience


• Ability to translate data into information


• Experience of developing, validating, and trouble shooting analytical methods


Nice to have:

• Technical/professional qualifications or an appropriate science related degree (or equivalent)


Inclusion without exception

We are always looking to enhance our current teams with diverse skills, experience and backgrounds; so if your skills and experience look a little different and you believe you can add value to the role and/or Weetabix, then we would love you to drop us your CV or apply! No candidate will ever meet 100% of the desired qualifications, skills and/ or experience, but we are ambitious to attract the right talent for how we want our business to grow.

You might not be right for the role, yet but we are always looking for talented people!

Introduction to Weetabix

Firstly a little bit about why we are the Nation's favourite cereal brand!

Weetabix is renowned for its commitment to providing better breakfasts and helping people live healthier lives. They are the home to popular breakfast favourites such as Weetabix, Alpen, and Weetabix On the Go Drinks. With our world-class innovation and extensive product range, Weetabix has established itself as a market leader. As part of the Weetabix family, you will have the opportunity to contribute to this success and make a difference in people's lives.

Our Sustainability credentials

Check out our sustainability credentials. Did you know all of our wheat is sourced within 50 miles of our factories and 100% of our electricity is generated by renewable energy and not to blow our own trumpet (but why not?!), but we expect to provide 3 million meals each year to Fareshare & Magic Breakfast which we are all really proud of.

https://weetabixfoodcompany.co.uk/our-beliefs/sustainability/

The Recruitment process

We will aim to shortlist within 2 weeks of application and are anticipating interviews will commence with face to face interview at our offices in Burton Latimer.

What's great about working for Weetabix? Here's some of what we offer…

What's great about Weetabix? Well apart from our brilliant products and brilliant people, the opportunities for personal development and progression are only limited by what you want to do. You'll also find as much Weetabix, Alpen, Weetos and Ready Brek as you could possibly eat.

There's a few other things we do - we've got core hours of 10-4 to let us have flexibility in our lives, after all there's other things in life that are almost as important as Weetabix! In the summer on a Friday this shortens down to 10-2 helping us make the most of the good weather, when (if) we get it.

We offer Annual and monthly flexible benefits so you can take what's important to you and 'flex it up', whilst reducing things you don't want more of. We do now offer 24/EAP and online GP appointments and a competitive salary, and health benefits such as buy and sell holidays, Salary sacrifice car (Salary depending), Dental insurance, Health assessments, Cycle to work, Critical illness cover, Salary sacrifice car scheme and gym discounts. We also have what we call 'business appropriate' clothing for our office teams - ultimately this means you can wear what you like, though if you're going into customers that might change!

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