Food Technology Industrial Placement

📣 Tobi’s Take: This is for that person who’s curious about how food is made, tested and delivered to the highest standards. You’ll spend time in store, working on live food projects and managing suppliers giving you the knowledge of the full cycle from innovation to customer.

✅ Food Technology is about spotting risks, asking the right questions and caring about quality. Think about moments where you’ve shown resilience, precision, or an ability to improve how something works that’s what will help you stand out

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❓ About the programme

Build your technical expertise. Deliver exceptional quality. This is an exciting industrial placement in the industry-leading M&S Food team. Learn how we ensure the quality, safety and standards that M&S products are known for.

💥 What you’ll be doing

You’ll kick the first six months off with an induction into the Food Technology team. You’ll spend two weeks in store, building an understanding about the wider business and how customer needs shape what we do. You’ll also see how we deliver the high standards we’re known for. This will give you a solid foundation to take forward into the rest of the placement.

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After your time in store, you’ll take on live projects across technical areas including food safety, supplier management and innovation.
From there, you’ll take on a 6-month placement with one of our trusted suppliers to broaden your experience within Food Technology and expand your knowledge of the full supply chain.

🌟 What it takes to succeed

A curiosity for how things work. A genuine enthusiasm for the products we make. These are the skills that will see you making the most of this hands-on experience. This role carries real responsibility to ensure the consistent quality and safety our customers expect from us. So, you’ll need an eye for detail and the confidence to speak up and ask questions.

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In addition, you’ll communicate clearly, collaborate across teams and stay focused under pressure.

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With the first half of the placement based in our Support Centre in London and the second half at one of our suppliers within the UK, you’ll need to be open to travelling and being mobile.

🛣️ Where it could lead

Future career at M&S. Expert in the making. Start here and you’ll build a strong foundation for a meaningful and impactful career in the Food industry. After the placement, you have the potential to re-join M&S through our graduate programme. Then over time, you could move into roles where you’ll lead projects which shape product quality, influence product innovation or set the strategy for entire food categories.
Examples of career path:

• Graduate Food Technologist
• Food Technologist
• Senior Food Technologist
• Category Technical Manager
• Head of Food Technology

🍋 Why choose M&S Food?

Our food is not just any food. We’ve got a reputation for quality, value and innovation. And it shows, with over 32 million customers and stores nationwide. We’re continually looking for new ways to improve and stay ahead in a fast-changing market. Our five-year vision is to reshape retail for the future and you can play a pivotal role in driving this transformation forward as a potential future leader of M&S.