2 Sisters Food Group to Partner With Campden BRI on Technical Training Academy

16 July 2013 --- Food and drink research organisation, Campden BRI, has been chosen as the partner for leading UK and European food manufacturer, 2 Sisters Food Group and its brand new Technical Training Academy, which will provide the business with access to first-class training and technical career development.

The 2 Sisters Food Group Technical Academy, in conjunction with Campden BRI, aims to enhance the skills and core capabilities of the Group’s technical team, providing them with clear and consistent quality standards and frameworks while enabling them to grow and develop their careers.

Campden BRI’s breadth of skills and experience and longstanding relationship with 2 Sisters Food Group made it the leading food manufacturer’s partner of choice to deliver an ongoing programme of tailored technical professional training and support.

Jenni Chambers, Head of Talent at 2 Sisters Food Group, said: “The Technical Academy is the cornerstone of our strategy to develop a culture of training, ownership and empowerment for all our technical employees and to encourage a renewed focus on continuous improvements and career development. This has been achieved by identifying a framework of core competencies in a number of key skill areas, introducing self assessment processes and building individual personal development plans to enhance the talents and strengths of our technical team and thereby ensuring the long-term future success of the business.”

Bertrand Emond, Campden BRI’s Head of Training, added: “We have substantial international experience in developing, customising and delivering high quality, effective, relevant technical training and support to clients throughout the world. We are delighted to be working with 2 Sisters Food Group to not only raise the bar by providing the best training and technical career development in the industry but create a quality benchmark for technical managers the world over.”

Campden BRI will initially deliver the Academy’s specialist technical training modules on key skills areas such as quality assurance, food safety and legal requirements at its Chipping Campden site but the longer-term plan will be to create a specialist training hub at 2 Sisters Food Group’s Birmingham headquarters.

2 Sisters Food Group Technical Director, Neil Khandke, added: “Within the food industry a role in technical management provides for a challenging and rewarding career. It is essential that we can attract good people into our business and ensure that through a great training and development programme with Campden BRI we will be growing the technical leaders of the future.”