Technical Director

High Profile Resourcing Ltd; Oxford; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Job summary

High Profile Resourcing Ltd seeks a Technical Director to lead the technical agenda across multiple manufacturing sites. You will shape the future of a growing food business, driving strategy, safety, quality and performance at board level.

You will evolve technical capability, influence stakeholders across the organisation and act as the external face of Technical with customers and retailers. The role requires a senior leader with a track record in chilled/higher-care manufacturing and

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in complex food manufacture.
• Experience operating at board level within food manufacturing.
• Strong credibility with major UK retailers.
• Experience in chilled or higher-care manufacturing environments.
• Proven track record leading technical transformation and organisational change.
• Ability to build and inspire large technical teams.
• Gravitas to operate effectively at board level.
• Strong commercial awareness and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the technical vision and strategy for the organisation.
• Lead and inspire a large multi-disciplinary technical function.
• Drive food safety, quality and compliance standards across sites.
• Lead technical workstreams for higher-care manufacturing evolution.
• Build capability and succession within the technical function.
• Represent the company with customers, retailers and external stakeholders.
• Influence cross-functional peers to embed technical excellence.
• Support investment decisions for facilities and processes.
• Contribute as a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Skills

Senior technical leadership

Board-level experience

Retailer-facing credibility

Chilled/higher-care manufacturing

Technical transformation

Team leadership

Board-level gravitas

Commercial awareness

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor degree

Microbiology background

Job description

Technical Director - high care food manufacturing

Board-Level Technical Leadership Opportunity

Location: Home Counties - relocation or living away from home available

Salary: £ + executive benefits including car allowance and bonus

Some Technical Director roles ask you to maintain standards.

This one asks you to shape the future.

We're partnering with a highly successful, privately owned multi-site food manufacturing business embarking on a significant phase of transformation and growth. With an established customer base, ambitious plans for future development and substantial investment underway, we are seeking an exceptional Technical Director to join the Executive Leadership Team.

This is a genuine Board-level appointment with responsibility for leading the technical agenda across multiple manufacturing operations whilst helping shape the future direction of the business.

The opportunity extends far beyond traditional technical leadership.

You will be instrumental in evolving technical capability, strengthening organisational effectiveness and leading the technical strategy associated with the transition into chilled and higher-care manufacturing environments. You will also serve as the external face of Technical, building trusted relationships with customers and influencing stakeholders across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the technical vision and strategy for the organisation.
• Lead, develop and inspire a large multi-disciplinary technical function.
• Drive food safety, quality and compliance standards across multiple sites.
• Lead the technical workstreams associated with higher-care manufacturing evolution.
• Build capability, succession pipelines and a high-performing technical culture.
• Act as the senior technical representative with customers, retailers and external stakeholders.
• Influence cross-functional peers to ensure technical excellence remains embedded throughout the business.
• Support investment decisions relating to facilities, processes and future growth.
• Provide strategic input as a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

We’re Interested in Speaking With Individuals Who Bring:

• Minimum degree educated and ideally further education in microbiology
• Significant senior technical leadership experience within complex food manufacturing environments ideally at board level
• Strong retailer-facing credibility with major UK retailers.
• Experience operating within chilled and/or higher-care manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading technical transformation and organisational change.
• A proven ability to build, develop and inspire technical teams.
• The gravitas and influence to operate effectively at Board level.
• Strong commercial awareness and cross-functional leadership capability.
• The ability to win hearts and minds whilst maintaining uncompromising technical standards.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is a rare opportunity to join a business where Technical has a genuine seat at the table.

You’ll have the autonomy, support and influence to shape the future technical agenda, build long-term capability and leave a lasting legacy within a growing organisation.

For the right individual, this represents one of those career-defining opportunities where your contribution will genuinely shape the future of the business.