Quality Manager in Food Production

Quality Manager Cambridgeshire Monday to Friday | 8:00am – 5:00pm Permanent | Full Time

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
If you're a food Quality Manager who knows your HACCP, can hold your own with a major retail customer and doesn't believe “that's how we've always done it” is a valid quality strategy, this could be a very good move.
We're looking for a Quality Manager to take ownership of quality across a fast-paced, perishable goods environment.
This is not just about audits and paperwork. You'll be managing standards across raw materials and finished goods, analysing quality data, leading a team and working directly with key internal stakeholders and a prestigious retail customer.
What you'll be doing Managing food safety, quality and compliance across the gifting operation

Maintaining the Food Safety Management System and HACCP plans

Supporting internal, customer and third-party audits

Overseeing raw material and finished goods inspections

Managing non-conformances and corrective actions

Ensuring food labelling and customer requirements are met

Analysing quality data and reporting trends and risks

Working closely with Production, Procurement and NPD

Leading and developing the Quality team

Acting as a key technical contact for customer quality issues

Driving continuous improvement across the operation

What we're looking for A food or perishable goods background is essential .
You'll need experience in:
Food safety, hygiene and HACCP

BRCGS and customer-specific standards

Quality inspections and audits

Food labelling compliance

Data analysis and reporting

Non-conformance and corrective action

People management

Customer and stakeholder management

Just as importantly, you need a bit of presence.
Someone credible. Confident. Commercially aware.
You'll need to be able to challenge professionally, have difficult conversations when required and build strong relationships without simply saying yes to everything.
We're looking for someone dynamic, adaptable and genuinely interested in improving things rather than just maintaining them.
Hours Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm
There will need to be some flexibility during peak periods including Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Easter Father's Day etc
Why consider it? Because this is a visible Quality Manager role where you'll genuinely have influence.
You'll be working across quality, compliance, people, data and customer relationships — with the opportunity to improve standards rather than simply monitor them.
If you're technically strong, commercially switched on and like getting properly involved in an operation, click APPLY today! xwzovoh
This role is being managed by Bea Ukaye at our Peterborough Office.