Associate Director- Consulting Technology

Campden BRI; Chipping Campden; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the food industry seeks a client-focused leader to enhance its consultancy capabilities. Candidates should have a strong background in technical consultancy, leadership experience, and a deep understanding of the food and drink supply chain. The position offers a competitive salary and numerous benefits including a company car and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Company car/ allowance

PMI

Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards

25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

Buy and sell holiday scheme

Generous pension scheme with matched contributions

Work/life balance focus

Subsidised onsite restaurant

Qualifications

• Experience and passion for client centricity.
• Direct leadership experience within a food and drink company.
• Strong track record of delivering within a consultancy environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead business delivery and development of profitable external consultancy business.
• Actively seek opportunities for cross-sell into other business units.
• Ensure an excellent consulting service to clients.

Skills

Client centricity

Commercial acumen

Relationship building

Leadership

Education

Degree in relevant science or technology-based subject

Job description

Consulting Technology

Supporting food manufacturers and retailers with product innovation including: rheology, new product development, value optimisation, instructional development, pilot plant, quality and food safety manufacturing, thermal processing, new technologies, and regulatory affairs.

Consulting Technology

You will work with our brilliant & UK leading technical experts across Product Innovation, Process Innovation, Training, Sensory & Consumer Science, Global Food Safety & Regulatory to ensure an excellent consulting service to our clients that adds value to the food and drink supply chain.

You'll sit as part of our leadership team to work closely with all business units to deliver a great client experience and retain clients by growing our relationships and supporting their aims. Delivering a service that is sustainably profitable for Campden BRI overall.

Collaborate with analysis and testing to build and evolve a cohesive client proposition that supports the needs of the food and drink supply chain.

Lead change and be an advocate across the business to improve client service, operational delivery, and process efficiency.

Work with sales and other scientists across the business, to build and maintain an effective pipeline of profitable work for Consulting. Actively seek opportunities for cross-sell into other business units to further support clients and build long lasting solutions to issues and opportunities.

Position

• Excellent client experience
• Leads business delivery and development of profitable external consultancy business
• People leadership and talent development
• Direct technical consulting and external promotion of Campden BRI
• Financial planning and commercial optimisation
• Leading change
  
  

Requirements

• Experience and passion for client centricity
• Technical and consulting experience within the food and drink supply chain
• Degree in relevant science or technology-based subject (Chemical Engineering, Food Science/Technology or similar)
• Direct leadership experience within a food and drink company
• Successfully owned a P&L
• Strong commercial acumen and a strong track record of delivering within a consultancy environment
• Deep understanding of client issues across the food and drink supply chain in product safety, quality, assurance, innovation / reformulation, and process improvement
• Specialism in at least one area of product safety/quality, innovation/reformulation, regulatory or thermal / non-thermal processing
• Engaging people leader with the ability to align and engage teams across the business
• Deep financial understanding, particularly investment-based business cases
• Wider business leadership, particularly leadership team experience
• Strong relationship building skills both externally and internally
• Ability to see the bigger picture and create tactical plans to deliver business strategy and change
  
  

Benefits

• Company car/ allowance
• PMI
• Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Buy and sell holiday scheme
• A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
• Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
• Subsidised onsite restaurant
  
  

Additional Information

Our site is located in Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, we would expect the successful candidate to be onsite 3 days per week, when not travelling to meet clients.