Job Description

Your purpose is to lead the Quality Department, ensuring adherence to customer requirements, improve product quality, drive out waste and inefficiency all whilst ensuring there is no impact on product quality, legality or safety.

 

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Overall governance and assurance of site quality
• Creating a culture where our people are enabled and empowered every day
• Creating and delivering development plan for self and team
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organization
• Enabling team to create and deliver Technical Strategy in line with group strategic direction
• Develop high level problem solving capability and facilitation skills throughout the function (to include crisis management)
• Responsible for creating Continuous Improvement culture and improvement opportunities for self and team
• Creates high performance by role modelling commitment to Operational Performance Management Systems principles
• Accountable for implementation and overall governance of end to end Quality Management System
• Leads and Drives CI opportunities through team
• Looks and encourages others to find and reduce waste, in all its forms, in everything that we do
• Encourages others to seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and convert to own CI projects
• Utilizes all available opportunities, enabling others to improve the way we do things
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business
• Supports team to demonstrate CI contribution through PDP process

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Teamwork and collaboration. Leading and inspiring – coaching/mentoring. Experience working in a fast paced manufacturing environment. HACCP Level 4, Food Safety Level 4. Leadership experience +4 years. Experience of private label manufacturing within and FMCG environment. Lead Auditor (desirable but not essential). Dairy Science (desirable but not essential). Someone with a minimum 4 - 5 years’ experience in FMCG is desirable. An individual with strong leadership/stakeholder management skills, the ability to deliver change and of course, with a passion for Technical and Quality Assurance