Careers

3.5t Van Driver                                                                     

• Complete all deliveries to customers within the given timescales.
• Complete all daily vehicle checks and follow the correct defect reporting procedures.
• To complete documentation accurately and clearly.
• Operate the vehicle in a safe and economical manner at all times ensuring that it is maintained in a clean and tidy state.
• Effectively communicate problems and delays to all relevant parties.
• Safely loading and unloading whilst complying with the correct procedure for given location.
• Maintain a full knowledge of the Highway Code, Working Time Directive, EU Drivers Hours Regulations and vehicle operations.
• To ensure all Legal Health and Safety legislation and Operational procedures are adhered to at all times and to work within Health and Safety Guidelines at all times ensuring the safety of self and others.
• To work within other areas /departments within the company as requested by Management from time to time.
• To keep up to date with company news and instructions by reading notices and memos.
• To ensure all Personnel procedures are adhered to and completed as required.
• To maintain a positive and caring attitude towards customers whilst delivering to their premises.

• Cat B Driving Licence.
• Good customer facing skills / polite and friendly manner

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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk

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  Coldstore Operatives (Night Shift)

• Kent Frozen Foods Ltd
  Aylesford
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  Full time/Permanent
  Start time 6.45pm (Sunday to Thursday)
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  £ competitive salary
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  kff is a leading foodservice supplier committed to delivering quality food products direct to the caterer, operating throughout London, Oxfordshire and the South of England.
  We currently have immediate vacancies for Coldstore Operatives to join our friendly night shift team in Aylesford, Kent.
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  Duties will include:
  • Picking orders (manually)
  • Stock checking and rotation
  • Manually replenishing pick faces
  • Operating machinery to deposit and withdraw stock pallets
  • Cleaning
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  To be considered for this role the ideal candidate must:
  • Have warehouse experience
  • Have a good understanding of Health and Safety Practices and Procedures
  • Reach truck licence preferred
  • Fork lift licence preferred
  • Be a good problem solver
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Display flexibility
  • Have good numeracy and literacy skills
  • Display flexibility and teamwork
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  In return you will receive:
  • Competitive salary
  • Company Pension
  • Hospital cash plan scheme
  • Benefits scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk

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  Coldstore Operatives (Night Shift)

• Kent Frozen Foods Ltd
• Witney, Oxfordshire
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  Full time/Permanent
  Start time 6.45pm (Sunday to Thursday)
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  £ competitive salary
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  kff is a leading foodservice supplier committed to delivering quality food products direct to the caterer, operating throughout London, Oxfordshire and the South of England.
  We currently have immediate vacancies for Coldstore Operatives to join our friendly night shift team in Aylesford, Kent.
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  Duties will include:
  • Picking orders (manually)
  • Stock checking and rotation
  • Manually replenishing pick faces
  • Operating machinery to deposit and withdraw stock pallets
  • Cleaning
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  To be considered for this role the ideal candidate must:
  • Have warehouse experience
  • Have a good understanding of Health and Safety Practices and Procedures
  • Reach truck licence preferred
  • Fork lift licence preferred
  • Be a good problem solver
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Display flexibility
  • Have good numeracy and literacy skills
  • Display flexibility and teamwork
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  In return you will receive:
  • Competitive salary
  • Company Pension
  • Hospital cash plan scheme
  • Benefits scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk
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  Coldstore Operative (Day Shift)

• Kent Frozen Foods Ltd
  Aylesford, Kent
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  Full time/Permanent
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  £competitive
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• kff is a leading foodservice supplier committed to delivering quality food products direct to the caterer, operating throughout London, Oxfordshire and the South of England.
  We currently have an immediate vacancy for a Coldstore Operative to join our friendly team in Aylesford, Kent.
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• Duties will include:
  • Picking orders (manually)
  • Stock checking and rotation
  • Manually replenishing pick faces
  • Operating machinery to deposit and withdraw stock pallets
  • Cleaning
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• To be considered for this role the ideal candidate must:
  • Have good numeracy and literacy skills
  • Good understanding of Health and Safety Practices and Procedures
  • Reach truck licence essential
  • Be a good problem solver
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Display flexibility
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• In return you will receive:
  • Competitive salary
  • Company Pension
  • Hospital cash plan scheme
  • Benefits scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk
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  Bids & Tenders Executive

  Kent Frozen Foods Ltd                                                                     
• Aylesford, Kent/Home Based     
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  Full time/Permanent
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  £competitive
   
  Kent Frozen Foods (kff) have over 50 years’ experience of supplying catering essentials, including an extensive range of locally sourced, regional products and high-end ingredients.
  We are one of the very few food wholesalers that can deal with a range of customers from small independents to larger regional groups across the UK.
  kff is a part of Sysco Speciality in the UK, which includes brands such as Fresh Direct, M&J Seafood, Wild Harvest & Fresh Fayre. This is great from a career development perspective, as our colleagues can move around the brands, broadening their knowledge of our products and customers.
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  Scope of position:
• Role includes the management process of all formal and informal tenders, bids and quotes that are qualified as being part of the kff formal tender /re tender process or are consortia lead.
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  Key Responsibilities:
• Produce professionally written tender responses and proposals that articulate the organisation’s value proposition.
• Ensure the effective co-ordination and timely completion of tenders.
• Play an active role in creating and managing the Bid Library.
• Organise kick off meetings and internal reviews.
• Identifying and monitoring opportunities on external portals and downloading documents where necessary
• Adhere to bid governance processes.
• Set up and manage mobilisation projects for new wins.
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  Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Excellent written English language skills are essential for this role.
• Proven skills in writing and editing proposal content would be desirable.
• You will have a good knowledge of MS Word and Excel
• Excellent time management / prioritisation skills
• Forensic attention to detail and meticulous proof-reading skills
• A good working knowledge of InDesign would be helpful.
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  In return you will receive:
• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Hospital cash plan scheme
• Benefits scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk
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  Night Shunter                                                                                       

• Kent Frozen Foods Ltd
  Aylesford
                                                                                                     
  Full time/Permanent
  £competitive
   
  kff is a leading foodservice supplier committed to delivering quality food products direct to the caterer, operating throughout London, Oxfordshire and the South of England.
  We currently have an immediate vacancy for a Night Shunter to join our friendly Operations team in Aylesford, Kent.
  The role of Night Shunter is to move vehicles safely around the yard and position them on loading bays ready for loading and to ensure they are plugged in, and a good temperature is maintained.
  This role will could include working in all weathers & at temperatures of -25.
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  Key responsibilities and accountabilities:  
• Maintain & control safe vehicle movement
• Reversing vehicles safely on to loading bays
• Use of two-way radios to communicate effectively
• Moving various palletized goods around site to different locations
• Health & Safety of the yard area and you
• Defect reporting – available & unavailable vehicles
• You may also be required to assist in the Warehouse (should the need arise)
• Carry out any other additional requests as required by your line manager
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  Competency profile required/Person specification:
• Have good numeracy and literacy skills
• Good communication
• Be able to follow radio instructions
• Good understanding of Health and Safety Practices and Procedures
• Be a good problem solver
• Excellent attention to detail
• Display flexibility
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  In return you will receive:
• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Hospital cash plan scheme
• Benefits scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk

• Stock controller

  Kent Frozen Foods Ltd                                                                        

  Aylesford, Kent     

                                                                         

  Full time/Permanent

  £competitive

   

  kff is a leading foodservice supplier committed to delivering quality food products direct to the caterer, operating throughout London, Oxfordshire and the South of England.

  We currently have an immediate vacancy for a Stock controller to join our friendly Supply chain team in Aylesford, Kent. This role is to ensure that stock is managed efficiently to maximise sales whilst reducing wastage.

   

  Key responsibilities will include:
• Placing orders with suppliers to maintain correct stock levels
• Ensuring incoming stock is aligned with Purchase orders and entering stock on to the system.
• Production planning for Purple Pineapple production site.
• Completing stock checks and stock investigations.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure they meet the correct delivery date.
• Arranging stock transfers between depots.
• Highlighting short dated products with wider site departments.
• Liaise with relevant internal departments.
• Managing stock returned from customer.
• Advising suppliers of any shortages/damages upon delivery.
• Allocating Booking in slots to suppliers.
• Produce daily reports i.e. (Daily out of stocks, N/A investigation, Shortages & Damages, Rebooks) etc.
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• To be considered for this role the ideal candidate must have:
• Good verbal communication at all levels
• Accurate and efficient IT skills.
• Product and job knowledge (preferred but not essential).
• Team working skills.
• Ability to effectively work with other departments.
• Previous clerical experience.
• Previous Goods in/ Stock control experience.
• Ability to multitask within a busy environment.
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  In return you will receive:
• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Hospital cash plan scheme
• Benefits scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk

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• Technical Co-ordinator                                                     

  Kent Frozen Foods Ltd
  Aylesford
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  Full time/Permanent
  £competitive
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  kff is regional leader of Sysco Speciality Group in storage and distribution, offering high quality product range to its ever-growing customers. With the expansion under Speciality Group, kff is also growing its team to continue to deliver high standards to its customers. Owing to the ongoing success of the business, a new and exciting technical position has arisen based at head office Aylesford, Kent.
  The business seeks a Technical Co-ordinator to support an established food safety and quality system delivering technical services across the business. To do this, as part of technical team you will play a key role in maintaining food safety standards and supporting customer service team.
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  Key responsibilities will include:
   
• Customer complaint’s investigation, implementing corrective and preventative actions
• Support in GHP / GMP, pest control, internal audits and follow up actions
• Be able to conduct traceability and product recall
• Support technical team in day-to-day tasks and internal auditing
• Support in third party certifications / accreditations audits
• Process control, QMS and documentation management
• Technical admin support
• Supplier Certificate maintenance
• Supplier SSAQ maintenance
• Supplier Ethical Trading CoC
• Supplier Traceability’s
• Maintain Supplier Folders
• Filing / archiving all supplier data (approvals, certs, specs)
• Request specifications / data from suppliers
• Customer allergen & nutritional requests
• Product allergen and ingredients database
• Customer Questionnaires
• Cover and support for Technical Manager
• Manage specifications on Erudus and other customer portals (Quadex)
• Product approvals
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• Minimum requirements:
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• Food safety trainings i.e., HACCP L2
• At least 3 years industry experience.
• Can do attitude.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to self-manage, make decisions and work as team player.
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• In return you will receive:
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• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Hospital cash plan scheme
• Benefits scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk

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  Credit Controller

  Kent Frozen Foods Ltd                                                                        
  Aylesford, Kent     
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  Full time/Temporary – 9 months
  £competitive
   
   
  kff is a regional food wholesaler with c.260 colleagues based near Maidstone, Kent. We are part of Sysco, the world’s largest foodservice provider with over 65,000 colleagues globally. kff has a family feel with a close-knit team, supplying both fantastic local pub and restaurant customers as well as delivering direct to the caterer.
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  We currently have an immediate vacancy for a Credit Controller to join our friendly Accounts team in Aylesford, Kent.
   
  Key responsibilities will include:
   
  Posting daily cash
  Daily downloading of banking’s extracted from Barclays.net.
  Cash receipts are collated and posted daily ensuring the allocation is correct to any remittance advices received and all batches are reconciled back to daily banking’s (Bacs list, cheques received, credit card receipts). 
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  Maintaining ledger         
  Ledgers should be correctly allocated with cash, invoices, credits and journals being correctly processed.  No adjustments are made without approval of the supervisor.
  Sales ledger refunds are processed upon written instruction from customer and authorization from the Finance Manager.
  Liaising with customers, drivers, sales managers (field and telesales) as appropriate to ensure customer ledgers are accurate.
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  Credit card transactions
  All credit card transactions are processed in line with internal procedures to ensure they are in line with PCIDSS regulations.
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  Telephone calls
  Ensuring telephone calls are answered promptly and handled in an efficient and professional manner with reference to internal processes and procedures.
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  New account opening (sickness/leave covering)
  Ensuring account opening processes are covered in absence of the Account Sales Administrator.
  Perform credit checking using Equifax in absence of Accounts Sales Administrator.
   
  Other admin duties
  A number of customers require their own excel statements/consolidated invoices, these need to be completed accurately and timely according to the customers’ requirements.
  Weekly copy invoices produced for customers and sent according to customer requirements.
  Drivers cashing in sheets reviewed to ensure the driver’s cash collection process is correctly followed and reporting of incorrect following of procedures.
  Messages are completed for individual customers regarding payment, non-collection of debt etc.
  Maintain other duties accurately and efficiently.
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  To be considered for this role the ideal candidate must have:
• Good verbal and written communication
• Literate and numerate
• Team working skills.
• Previous credit control experience preferred
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  In return you will receive:
• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Hospital cash plan scheme
• Benefits scheme
• Life Assurance  
• Car parking
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• If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to jobs@kff.co.uk
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