Technical Manager

Corvin Fox; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading seed business in Greater Lincolnshire seeks a Technical Manager to shape and lead its technical function. You will be responsible for driving quality, compliance, and safety improvements while mentoring a dedicated technical team. The ideal candidate possesses extensive technical leadership experience within agricultural or food industries and a degree. This role offers competitive compensation, a car allowance, and the chance to grow within an expanding business, gaining European exposure.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Car allowance

Additional benefits

Qualifications

• Strong technical leadership background in food manufacturing, agricultural processing, or horticulture.
• Experience at Technical Manager level or above.
• Evidence of leading change and technical improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical agenda across quality, compliance, safety, and process.
• Upgrade systems in line with investment rather than firefighting.
• Build a high-performing technical function and mentor future leaders.

Skills

Technical leadership

Change management

Quality systems development

Team coaching

HACCP knowledge

Education

Degree qualification

Job description

Overview

Technical Manager

Spalding

Competitive Salary + Car Allowance + Additional Benefits

Shape and Lead a Best-in-Class Technical Function in a Growing, Profitable Seed Business

If youre a technical leader thinking about your next move, this is a rare opportunity to transform a function, not just run one.

This is a newly created Technical Manager role within a long-established, family-owned seed business that is profitable, growing and actively investing in both technology and research to support its long-term strategy.

With a strong reputation for the quality of their product, the organisation is now looking to take its technical capability from great to best in class.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the role offers real autonomy with minimal red tape to achieve greatness.

Youll shape the technical agenda across quality, compliance, safety and process, with a clear expectation that technical leadership underpins commercial performance, customer confidence and market access.

You will inherit strong foundations, established standards and a committed technical team, allowing the focus to be on upgrading systems and processes in line with recent and ongoing investment, rather than firefighting.

There is a clear opportunity to build a high-performing technical function, mentor future leaders and leave a lasting legacy as the business continues to grow.

In addition to this, there is further scope for the role to grow and gain European and international exposure.

The Business

The business is a long-established, privately owned seed company with a diverse group structure spanning vegetable seed, agricultural seed and specialist seed technology services.

As well as this, they operate within a wider group giving you capacity to grow within the wider business.

It operates exclusively in B2B markets, supplying direct sales to growers and farmers, ensuring high-quality seed delivery for agricultural production.

It also works closely with a European and USA breeding partners, providing access to external expertise and international collaboration.

What You217ll Need

Youll have a strong technical leadership background gained within food manufacturing, agricultural processing, horticulture or a closely related industry, with experience operating at Technical Manager level or above as well as being degree qualified.

You will have a proven track record of leading change. This role is not retailer-led and does not require retailer-facing technical experience. The focus is on the development and improvement of technical and quality systems, coaching the team and raising the bar from great to best in class.

Experience of formal industry qualifications such as HACCP, Lead Auditor or IOSH would be advantageous.

What Next

I know you are more than your CV and may not have one up to date at the moment, send what you have now we can worry about refining it later.

Lets first have an informal chat.

Please email Evie at [e-mail] and we can line up that first conversation.

Corvin Fox is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate difference and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and walks of life to apply.

Whilst we aim to respond to all applicants, there are times where this is not possible due to the high number of applicants we receive. If you havent heard back from us within 10 working days of your application, you have unfortunately been unsuccessful.