Specification Technologist

Overview

Location & Working Arrangement:
Nuneaton Hub. Full-time | Hybrid 2 days per week.

Join our Product Integrity team as a Specification Technologist at Holland & Barrett, where you'll play a vital role in shaping the quality and safety of our health and wellness products. You'll develop and maintain precise product and raw material specifications that meet regulatory, safety, and customer requirements, ensuring our manufacturing processes run smoothly. Working closely with cross-functional teams—such as Product Development, Purchasing, and Manufacturing—you'll help create Gold Standard specifications and drive continuous improvements.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a trusted brand's mission to promote healthier lifestyles, grow your expertise in product compliance, and collaborate with passionate professionals dedicated to excellence.

• Develop and maintain finished product, interim and customer specifications in line with regulatory, safety and customer standards
• Work collaboratively with New Product Development, Purchasing and suppliers to establish Gold Standard specifications
• Manage specification databases and document management systems, ensuring accurate version control and timely updates
• Conduct regular reviews and audits of specifications to maintain compliance and accuracy
• Review supplier raw material and packaging specifications, challenging inconsistencies and ensuring alignment
• Coordinate nutritional testing schedules, analyse results and manage corrective actions with suppliers where needed
• Create and maintain Mini Specifications and Quality Attribute Sheets (QAS) to support Goods-In quality control
• Partner with manufacturing and customer teams to resolve specification-related queries and support efficient production

• Previous experience in specification management within the food manufacturing or FMCG industry.
• Strong knowledge of food safety regulations, quality assurance principles, and product specification management.
• Proficiency with specification systems/databases and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Understanding of production processes, raw material specifications, and nutritional analysis.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational skills, and ability to prioritise multiple tasks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a commitment to continuous improvement and quality assurance.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, maintaining a positive, solution-focused attitude

• 28 days holiday, including bank holiday
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Private medical cover (after 12 months service)
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 24/7 Virtual GP access
• Annual free at-home health testing kit (after 6 months' service)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
• Workplace pension
• Life assurance (2x salary, after 6 months' service)
• £50 colleague product allowance on Holland & Barrett products (after 6 months' service)
• 25% colleague discount in store and online, with free delivery on online orders
• Free Wellhub membership, with discounted access to gyms, studios and wellbeing apps
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to cashback and discounts with a wide range of retailers

We’re passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we’re committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues’ unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.

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