Halifax, England, United Kingdom
A passionate individual for Event Management and the Agricultural and Food Industry with 3 years experience in food and lifetime in agriculture stemming from the family farm.
Graduate Trainee undertaking placements in Production, managing the Ingredient Room at one of the Convenience sites improving run rates to obtain plan target levels. New Product Development, developing new products by creating recipes from briefs from the customers, following the product all the way through the different factory processes and presenting to the customer. Technical and Sales and Marketing. Currently graduate account executive on the M&S commercial/category account across fresh pork, bacon and gammon, forcasting, analysing sales data, creating monthly reports. Working on Hog & Beyond, Cranswick's street food at a variety of events. Serving the Great British public and promoting high quality, locally produced food.
Working as part of the purchasing department sourcing new ingredients for the new product development (NPD) team. Obtaining information from suppliers to ensure NPD and technical teams had all the correct information required including prices, specifications, minimum order quanities to create specifications and costings to allow for sucessful launches of new products. Looking after the honey category undertaking a complexity reduction programme of suppliers.