# Technical Product Specialist

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Thrapston, Northamptonshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As our Product Expert, you will be our go-to champion for product quality, technical insight, and category knowledge. Working closely within our Technical & Product team, you will help guide seasonal product transitions, support quality intake standards, and provide engaging, hands-on learning for our operations and intake colleagues.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Champion food safety, quality, and product integrity across our blueberry and grape ranges.

- Provide supportive seasonal guidance, training, and skill-building for technical intake and packhouse teams.

- Oversee product freshness checks, shelf-life studies, quality reviews, and technical intake validations.

- Partner collaboratively with Procurement, At Source teams, Technical Managers, and Site Operations to explore category trends and nurture strong supplier relationships.

- Help ensure our product specifications and site guidelines align smoothly with safety standards, BRC expectations, and internal best practices.

- Use product insights and data to continuously improve quality, streamline intake processes, and solve technical challenges constructively.

We offer a range of benefits including:

- Generous holiday entitlement

- Discretionary bonus scheme

- 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores

- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member

- Genuine career progression and development opportunities

- Subsidised staff canteen

- Free parking

- Competitive pension and life assurance

- Healthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP

To be considered for this role, you will need:

- Relevant experience or a degree in science, food technology, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, manufacturing or business

- Knowledge of safety, legality, compliance and quality across supply chain and produce range

- Previous experience/knowledge of high risk coupled with thermal processing knowledge/experience

- Strong analytical and decision making skills

- Excellent communication skills and solution focussed problem solver

- A proven track record of people management and delivering strong results through a team in a people management role

## Skills

### Required
- food safety
- quality control
- product integrity
- supply chain management
- analytical skills
- communication skills
- people management

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