Raw Materials Co-ordinator

Role: Raw Materials Co-ordinator

Location: South Kirkby

Salary: £30,000pa – £40,000pa, depending on experience

Hours:  Monday-Friday, 42.5 hours per week, flexible hours

About the Role:

Our rapidly growing client, based in South Kirkby, is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Raw Material Coordinator to join their team. This role is crucial in ensuring that all raw materials meet their strict quality standards and customer specifications. You’ll play a vital part in maintaining supplier compliance, improving raw material quality, and supporting internal teams with technical knowledge—particularly in butchery and meat specifications.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a leading UK processing business, known for delivering high quality products across the retail and wider commercial sector. The company offers a dynamic and supportive environment where your skills will have a real impact and provide excellent opportunities for professional growth.

Key Responsibilities of the Raw Materials Co-ordinator:

• Evaluate incoming raw materials against approved specifications to ensure they meet the standards the company buy against.
• Work alongside the technical team to maintain and update supplier specifications as needed, ensuring current and accurate documentation.
• Actively monitor the quality of raw materials on-site to ensure alignment with customer expectations and product specifications.
• Report all findings (positive and negative) to the Technical Manager, and collaborate with Commercial, Operational teams, and suppliers accordingly.
• Drive improvements in raw material quality across the site over time through analysis, supplier engagement, and proactive management.
• Build strong, transparent relationships with suppliers based on compliance, integrity, and collaboration.
• Quantify and discuss potential improvements to butchery techniques or packaging formats with internal teams before engaging suppliers.
• Raise NCRs or rejection notices for any raw materials not meeting specification, and ensure issues are communicated internally.
• Conduct site visits with the Technical Manager to support specification development and resolve quality concerns.
• Support production leaders and staff with understanding of butchery specifications and meat cuts used in products.
• Generate regular reports and trend analyses to monitor and communicate customer performance data.
• Once established in the role, lead weekly/monthly performance calls with suppliers.
• Use butchery knowledge to enhance the value and utility of raw materials on-site.
• Prepare for and participate in factory visits and technical audits.
• Conduct in-process assessments of raw materials using techniques such as cook-ups, Foss analysis, and butchery checks.
• Support online assessment of raw materials to verify supplier claims or identify reasons for material downgrades.

Experience and Qualifications required for the role:

• Strong butchery knowledge across Beef, Lamb, and Pork
• HACCP-trained
• Food Hygiene certification
• Willingness to undertake additional training as required to support business needs and stay current with industry changes and customer codes of practice

Preferred Skills:

• IT literate, Word & Excel
• Familiarity with 3rd party audits and regulatory bodies such as BRC, EFSIS, Red Tractor, Retailers, EHO, and TSO
• Collaborative team player with a focus on continuous improvement
• Understanding of both digital and paper-based specification systems

What’s on offer:

• Salary of £30,000pa – £40,000 pa, depending on experience
• Holidays – 29 holidays 
• Employee discount
• Career progression
• Free on site parking
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme

If you are passionate about meat quality, specifications, and supplier collaboration and you thrive in a fast-paced factory environment, we want to hear from you. Apply today!

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