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With a BSc in Sports Science from York St John, Alex began his recruitment career in Stamford in 2006 and since then has specialised in Technical, Quality and Hygiene recruitment specifically within the food, fresh produce, and horticultural industries.
Alex joined MorePeople in 2022 as Associate Director, continuing to use his experience recruiting Technical, Quality, NPD and Hygiene professionals focussing mainly on middle management to director level roles within the food and fresh produce sectors.
Henry began his career in the food industry supporting the technical function within his family’s salad business, gaining early hands‑on experience supplying fresh produce to UK retailers. He went on to complete a degree in Nutrition and Food Marketing at Newcastle University, graduating in 2022.
Since then, Henry has worked across produce, poultry, and prepared foods, supplying major retailers including M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda. He is now a Technical Manager at Greggs, overseeing three supply chain sites and partners closely with Operational functions to resolve day‑to‑day challenges, strengthen standards, and drive continuous improvement.
Henry is passionate about supporting early‑career talent and regularly collaborates with Newcastle University on careers events and curriculum development.
Jasmine has been working in food industry since graduating from the University of Nottingham in 2017 with a Food Science degree including a 12-month industrial placement.
Jasmine has held multiple roles across the technical function within the chicken, fish, biscuits and dairy industries. These include Regional Auditor across UK and EU, Project Quality Assurance Advisor, Quality Manager and Graduate Management Trainee.
Her current role is Quality Assurance Manager at the First Milk Lake District Creamery, which process and dispatches cheese, whey powder and whey cream for UK, EU and worldwide customers.
Within her role she manages the site HACCP plans, positive release of finished product, incident review and closure along with managing site quality assurance technicians and hygiene operatives. Other aspects of her role include issuing out certificates of analysis for finished products, organising the exportation of samples for customer review and laboratory testing, as well as completing or supporting both internal and external audits.
I’m a Food Microbiologist with 25 years’ experience working in manufacturing, retail and consultancy. After studying Microbiology at Surrey University, I joined the Product Safety team at Sainsburys. I moved on to the Dairy sector and worked for Arla Foods and the Specialist Cheesemaker’s Association. I then ran my own consultancy business for 12 years, where I provided Food Micro support to Food Businesses, environmental health officers, laboratories and even Insurance underwriters. I joined M&S in September 2023 as Company Microbiologist. This exciting and challenging role includes supporting our Food Technologists and Suppliers, managing the M&S food testing plan and laboratories, working with Industry, the Foods Standards Agency and the BRC, and driving new initiatives in food safety. I have a passion for training and developed various Food Micro training courses and webinars; something I have continued to do at M&S to upskill the Food Technology team and our Suppliers. Microbiology is such an interesting area to work in; as foodborne pathogens evolve we have to learn how to control them! How we monitor and test for micro-organisms is also changing, so to do my job effectively I have to keep learning and adapting what we do at M&S to keep up with the microbes!
Started as a classically trained chef working in Michelin Star restaurants, changed my career path into foodservice as a development chef for pub chains and restaurants before taking the plunge into manufacturing with Kerry Foods, working at Kerry for 8 years across all their brands and production areas up to Innovation Manager for cooked meats.
I left and joined 2 Sisters Food Group as Head of NPD for added value poultry for 3 years, moving into the newest most exciting category at the time, Plant Based for Samworth Brothers as Head of NPD, after the market basically crashed I was sadly made redundant and moved into my current role as Head of NPD for all M&S development for Compleat Food Group whilst also looking after total business fried snacking through our Middlesbrough site.
Since graduating from Sheffield Hallam University in 2017, I’ve been part of the Technical Team at Greggs. I currently work as a Supplier Technologist, overseeing the approval and ongoing performance of food suppliers across a diverse range of categories, from salads and cooked meats to spices and other core ingredients. My responsibilities include conducting food safety audits and supplier visits, reviewing KPIs, managing incidents, and monitoring emerging risks within the industry.
I’ve also had the opportunity to gain experience in other areas of the business, including retail and supply chain. This exposure has given me a strong, well-rounded understanding of the technical requirements that support the wider organisation.