Customer Technical Support Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join Refresco Bridgwater one of the UKs leading beverage manufacturing sites where youll play a pivotal role in shaping customer relationships and driving quality excellence. As the technical link between our customers and the business youll have the autonomy to influence continuous improvement collaborate with cross-functional teams and make a real impact on customer satisfaction.

Customer Technical Support Manager

Permanent

Refresco Bridgwater

Hybrid 38 houts per week

Whats in it for you

• Annual bonus and regular pay reviews
• Hybrid working
• Early Friday finish to kickstart your weekend
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Life assurance coverage
• 24/7 virtual GP access for you and your family
• Free eyecare vouchers and discounted glasses
• Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals
• GroceryAid support services offering financial legal wellbeing and practical guidance
• Cheers benefits platform providing discounts free perks and wellbeing tools
• Free onsite parking and discounted products

About The Role

A Customer Technical Support Manager manages the technical relationship between customers and the company ensuring customer expectations are met in a timely and positive manner.

• Manage the technical relationship with customers ensuring expectations are understood communicated and consistently met.
• Respond to customer enquiries conduct site visits and audits and represent the business at customer review meetings.
• Collaborate with site quality teams and commercial account managers to implement customer-driven quality improvements.
• Investigate escalated customer complaints and product withdrawals identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Liaise with local authorities to resolve regulatory and enforcement matters while ensuring compliance with safety hygiene and housekeeping standards.
• Demonstrate strong leadership empower team members drive continuous improvement and maintain high ethical standards with a focus on customer satisfaction.

About You

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable operational experience ideally within a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturing environment with a strong understanding of modern manufacturing methodologies and quality systems. They will have a genuine interest in the food and beverage industry and a passion for driving continuous quality improvement. The successful candidate will also possess strong project management skills and proven experience in managing customer quality and technical complaints using a proactive customer-focused approach to resolve issues and implement effective corrective actions.

We want someone who will lead and role model to the Refresco core values - agile responsible excellent passionate and entrepreneurial - see here for more detail:

Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global National and Emerging brands and retailers with production in Europe North America and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton PET Aseptic PET cans and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand environmental responsibilities and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam the Netherlands and has more than 13500 employees. .

Our drinks on every table. Thats the Refresco vision. Were a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and were only just getting started.

Were the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1800 employees who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether its packed in cartons bottles or cans we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our companys values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.