Join a long-established, values-driven food manufacturing business with a strong heritage in quality, innovation, and sustainability.
The Head of Quality is accountable for end-to-end food safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance across the site, ensuring products consistently meet legal, customer, and internal standards while leading the Quality Management System and embedding a strong food-safety culture.
Responsibilities Own and maintain the Quality Management System (. BRCGS, FSSC *****, ISO).
Ensure compliance with all applicable legislation, customer standards, and internal requirements.
Lead external audits, inspections, and customer reviews, including close-out of actions.
Oversee investigation and resolution of non-conformances, complaints, and incidents, including root cause analysis.
Report quality performance, KPIs, and risks to senior leadership.
Monitor regulatory changes and assess potential business impact.
Partner with Operations to manage production quality, hygiene, and food-safety risks.
Provide risk-based input into operational decisions (. trials, changeovers, scale-ups).
Analyse quality data, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement.
Lead validation of product and process changes.
Lead, develop, and performance-manage the Quality team.
Build capability, clarify roles, and support succession planning.
Contribute to broader operational excellence programmes.
Partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Operations, Innovation, and Commercial teams.
Ensure supplier, raw material, and customer quality requirements are met.
Manage relationships with laboratories, auditors, regulators, and third-party partners.
Accountable for the Quality function and associated budget Key stakeholders: internal teams and external partners (customers, suppliers, regulators) Qualifications