# Product Specialist - Salads & Exotics

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

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## Description

As our Product Expert – Salads & Exotics, 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

- 'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more

- Optional payroll charity donations

- A range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- science
- food technology
- chemistry
- microbiology
- engineering
- manufacturing
- business

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