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Secure Screening Services is a tech-led background screening company on a mission to make background checks simple, fast and stress-free for clients and candidates. We’ve built our screening portal in-house and back it with a UK-based support team, using smart tools to deliver dependable service. We’re proud of our relaxed, friendly culture, and we match hard work and commitment with flexibility, creative freedom and support to develop your skills. Here’s what to expect to be working on as a Software Engineer at Secure Screening Services: · Join a Small, Fantastic Team: Be part of a close-knit group with a vibrant and positive culture, where everyone's contributions are valued and celebrated. · Growth-Oriented Environment: Thrive in a setting that fosters continuous growth and development, both personally and professionally. · Top-Notch Equipment: Macbook Pro, ensuring you have the best tools to excel in your role. · Lead and Own Your Role: Enjoy the freedom to truly own and take the lead in your position, driving projects and making impactful decisions. · Dedicated Development Day: Benefit from a dedicated day each month focused solely on development, allowing you to innovate and push the boundaries of our product. · Rapidly Growing Product: Be a crucial part of a rapidly expanding product, contributing to its success and scaling it to new heights. · High Levels of Collaboration: Engage in high levels of collaboration with a team that values teamwork, open communication, and collective problem-solving. Duties & Responsibilities · Deliver stable, well-reviewed code across our PHP 8 / Laravel 9 monolith · Improve legacy systems incrementally without introducing risk or churn · Follow technical leadership and prioritize team goals over personal agendas · Mentor junior developers and support a culture of professional discipline · Collaborate with security and DevOps tools (Vapor, Snyk, and Cloudflare) · Communicate clearly around blockers, estimates, and changes · Be a consistent, team-first contributor in a structured engineering environment Skills & Qualifications · 5+ years of professional experience with PHP/Laravel in production · Strong familiarity with Laravel conventions and the broader ecosystem · Proven ability to work within legacy codebases · Competence with React — no rebuilds, but capable of debugging and stabilizing · Experience with DevOps basics: AWS, CI/CD, shell tools, etc. · High attention to detail and careful problem-solving mindset · Demonstrated ability to take direction while building trust within the team · Experienced mentoring juniors and promoting good coding practices · A team player who builds good working relationships Benefits: · Enhanced holiday package and your birthday off · Electric car scheme via salary sacrifice · Health cash plan · Wellbeing programme · Relaxed office setting · Company events · Flexible working · Hybrid/remote working Company Overview Founded in 2018, Secure Screening Services has a young, ambitious team with big plans and a love for smart technology. We’re collaborative, supportive and serious about your development—provided you bring dedication and a strong work ethic. In return for your commitment, you’ll find mentorship, meaningful responsibility and the chance to shape how we serve our clients and candidates. It’s a place to do your best work and keep getting better. As a fast-moving and rapidly evolving tech company, we embrace the advantages of AI and encourage its use throughout our application process. However, our goal is to get to know and hire the authentic you - your skills, experience, and values. We don’t want to hire an AI-generated version of you. We consider AI to be a valuable tool, not something that should overshadow you as an individual. • Closing Date: 28th November 2025.

Head of Innovation / Chichester / West Sussex – Market leading salary, bonus & amazing benefits package At Nature’s Way Foods, our mission is simple: “The Best at Fresh.” We’re looking for an inspiring Head of Product Innovation to lead the way in shaping the future of fresh, healthy food. This is a unique opportunity to drive innovation across new product development, process improvement, and packaging, delivering exciting products that delight consumers and set the standard for the industry What You’ll Do: • Lead the full concept-to-launch innovation process, ensuring every product and package is consumer-focused, commercially viable, and operationally excellent, • Build and manage a dynamic innovation pipeline that balances quick wins with transformational ideas, • Inspire and grow a multidisciplinary team of chefs, product developers, and packaging experts, fostering creativity, curiosity, and high performance, • Partner with colleagues across Operations, Technical, Commercial, and Finance, and work closely with customers and suppliers to unlock new opportunities, • Drive process improvements to boost efficiency, sustainability, quality, and shelf life Who You Are: • A proven leader in Food NPD/Innovation, ideally in fresh or chilled products, • Experienced managing chefs, product development, and packaging teams, • Commercially savvy, with a talent for turning creative ideas into profitable, high-quality products, • Passionate about food, health, and innovation, with an eye on consumer trends, • Entrepreneurial, inspiring, collaborative, and resilient in a fast-paced environment What you get from us: • Life Assurance, • Employer matched pension, • Car Allowance, • Bonus, • Relocation allowance & support if applicable, • Health cash plan, • Cycle to work scheme, • Colleague discounts, e.g. Gym membership & shopping discounts, • Flexibility in pay frequency each month, • Access to online GP, • Employee assistance programme This is your chance to lead innovation at a business that’s growing fast and setting the bar in fresh food. If you thrive on creativity, teamwork, and making a real impact, this is the role for you. Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of fresh food. We look for passionate people, with a can-do attitude and an ambition to succeed. We strive to help our people in channelling that passion into everything they do, because your success is our success! We love people who have high standards & lots of ideas, because we are always striving to improve, and we want you to help us do that. Natures Way is a fun, fast and friendly environment where you will be surrounded by a passionate and dedicated team, who are committed to being the best at fresh. Apply now & join our family

Product Development Manager | Up to £60,000 base salary | Annual bonus | Chichester Are you a passionate innovator with a flair for leading teams and bringing creative food ideas to life? At Nature’s Way Foods, our mission is to be “The Best at Fresh.” We’re looking for a Product Development Manager to lead the creation and delivery of innovative, high-quality salad and fresh food products that delight our customers and consumers. In this pivotal role, you’ll lead the development pipeline from concept to launch — transforming consumer insights, customer briefs, and category trends into commercially successful products. You’ll collaborate with Development Chefs, process, technical, and commercial teams to ensure every product reflects freshness, quality, and creativity. As a key leader in our innovation function, you’ll also oversee the management of our point 74 product lifecycle management (PLM) system, ensuring projects are delivered on time, to brief, and within budget. What you get from us • Base salary of £50,000 – £60,000 dependent on experience, • Annual bonus, • Employer matched pension up to 5%, • Health cash plan, • Flexible benefits including corporate gym discounts, shopping discounts, enhanced maternity & paternity policy and many more, • Access to online GP & life assurance Key responsibilities • Lead the NPD and EPD pipeline for assigned retail and foodservice customers, ensuring all projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to brief, • Translate customer briefs and category opportunities into innovative, commercially viable concepts aligned with Nature’s Way Foods’ “Best at Fresh” vision, • Oversee the full product lifecycle — from idea generation and recipe development through to factory trials, sign-off, and launch, • Manage and maintain the point 74 PLM system, ensuring all data and documentation are accurate, current, and compliant, • Collaborate with Development Chefs, Process Technologists, technical, and operations teams to ensure product feasibility and scalability, • Partner with commercial and category teams to deliver customer expectations and profitable, insight-driven launches, • Use market data, trend insights, and consumer feedback to identify and develop new product opportunities, • Support customer presentations and range reviews with compelling, insight-led recommendations, • Ensure all products meet food safety, quality, and shelf-life standards in collaboration with technical teams, • Manage costings and sustainability considerations to achieve commercial and environmental targets, • Lead, coach, and develop the Product Developer, fostering creativity, accountability, and continuous improvement, • Deliver a three-year rolling innovation pipeline aligned with strategic goals and customer requirements Requirements • Proven experience in product development or innovation leadership within fresh, chilled, or short shelf-life food manufacturing, • Strong understanding of the NPD process from concept to launch, • Experience using a PLM system (Point 74 experience highly desirable), • Excellent project management and organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities, • Experience working with major UK retailers and/or foodservice customers, • Strong communication, influencing, and presentation skills, • Commercial acumen with the ability to balance creativity, cost, and operational feasibility, • Passionate about food, innovation, and delivering exceptional freshness, • Full-time role, with a minimum expectation to be in the Chichester office four days per week About us Nature’s Way Foods is the leading manufacturer of prepared salads, coleslaw, and “food-to-go” for supermarkets. We work closely with farmers across Europe to deliver exceptional quality and freshness. But there’s more to us than the products we make. Our culture is inclusive and our people are diverse, spanning 39 different languages across four manufacturing facilities capable of producing over 400 million units per year. It’s an exciting time to join Nature’s Way Foods — we’re growing rapidly and there are genuine opportunities to progress within the organisation. Interested? Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you. At Nature’s Way Foods, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to driving innovation and achieving excellence. We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and fairer world. Together, we can become Best at Fresh.