Food Commodity Manager

Purpose: To lead and manage a customer-facing, technically-focused Commodity team that provides Product Quality Assurance, Technical Audit and Authorisation for hundreds of food products required for the provision of Food to Armed Forces personnel. Main Duties and Responsibilities: Provide leadership and Subject Matter Expertise to Team Leidos Defence Food and develop their skills and talents. Ensure that the Technical Manager and Food Technologist post holders are suitably experienced and qualified to carry out the activities required of the role. Engage with the individual food supply contractors to ensure that procedures and process are implemented and operating effectively for the following: o Ordering food. o Delivery and receipt of food. o Issue of account numbers and accounting procedures. o UK and Overseas exercises. o Ordering for Ships and Submarines. o Quality Assurance. o Operations, Periods of Crisis and War. Deliver the Defence Food element of Commodity Support Services to ensure the customer receives quality products On Time In Full (OTIF). To develop and improve/refine Food Commodity Process and Procedures. Utilising the Technical Manager and Food Technologist post holdersto maintain a Food Safe Environment and Deliver an assured safety and environmental system for procured Food items. Engaging with Defence Food Category ensure that all pre-tender Commodity documentation is completed to standard. Lead development In-Contract of all ORP ..... full job details .....