Head of Quality

5 months ago

AshbyDeLaZouch, United Kingdom pladis Full time

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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What will this role achieve?

An opportunity has arisen to join anchor regional UK&I as Head of Quality + Food Safety. This pivotal role has a brad scope of responsibilities and stakeholders, covering the following areas;
- Custodian of the UK&I QFS business standards, ensuring via horizon scanning that we maintain fit for future processes and controls
- Owner of the QFS Internal Audit programme, providing specialist verification of the effective operation of our pladis manufacturing and storage estate.
- Management of the system, data and reporting requirements of SQSE as a whole, governing the business software, its outputs and optimising the data use to best inform business decision making
- Owner of the Supplier Quality Assurance Programme for circa 600 direct, indirect and key service suppliers used across UK, NL and France.

Responsible for a team of 7 specialist, technologists and Auditors, this people-centric role requires high level of organisation and communication. Key Stakeholders include Procurement, R+D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Global and Regional QSF teams, and external networks. Working within the SQSE Leadership Team you will co-create, pla and deliver the QFS strategic direction of the business.

This exciting role has only become available 3 times in the last 20 years. It offers significant development potential for the individual with the chance to contribute across multiple business platforms and make a real and sustainable difference.

What will be your key deliverables?
- Defines UK&I business quality and food safety best practice
- Drives compliance, standardisation, consistency and alignment across all sites
- Ensures teams have robust actions plans in place that are well implemented by working with leadership teams to challenge, review and risk assess the plans and ways of working
- Identify, develop and implement continuous improvements in performance. Set the measurements of continuous performance through determining Key Performance Indicators (e.g. complaints, audit performance, Vendor Non Conformance’s)
- Support the development of the Group Q&FS strategies and implement these in Cluster. - Maintains an awareness of industry developments in Q&FS and integrates into company processes where relevant
- Provides consultancy and guidance in investigations, incidents and crises as appropriate.
- Consults sites in preparation for external audits and prioritises appropriate central resource where necessary
- Delivers specific Q&FS projects
- Drives sites to adopt best practices and standard ways of working for the business
- Manages the 3rd party audit provider and scheduling for the cluster. Cost centre & budget responsibility
- Coaches and advises sites in the implementation of robust Q&FS initiatives
- Ensures training meets the requirements of the Q&FS plan.

Bring your experience

Essential
- Expert knowledge of quality & food safety legislation, regulations, standards and practices
- Proven track record in a cross regional Quality and Food Safety management role
- Clean driving license
- Strong communication and organisation skills

Desirable

Our Purpose

Bring happiness with every bite

It’s a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we’re all unique, we also share the same values.

Each of our values is important on its own. In combination they’re incredibly powerful.

Our values have deep personal meaning to us. They’re part of who we are and what we stand for as an employer

Living our pladis values is a key part of success, look out for questions in your interview that link to these key pladis values.

Our Values

Purpose led - We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite

Agile - We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers

Positive - We’re highly motivated optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better

Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward

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