Table Talk

"The food industry is a fantastic place to work. It can be challenging, but it can be so much fun. You will always be learning." So says Rachel Auty, New Product Development Controller at Greencore. Greencore make all sorts of food products that end up being sold in supermarkets, from soups, to sushi, and salads to sauces. Rachel works in the prepared meals sector and in this episode of the Career Conversations series, she reveals all about the process of getting a new product to market - from brief to shelf. It could all have been very different though. Rachel says a chance meeting on a bus when she was a teenager set her on her career path. She says that day "when the stars aligned" is the reason she is so passionate about sharing information with young people at the start of their food careers: "So they don't have to meet a certain person, on a certain bus, on a certain day to find out what they want to do." Rachel went on to study Food Marketing Management at Sheffield Hallam University