Quality and Food Safety Manager

Responsibilities Site leadership: Lead Leicester's quality and food safety agenda as an SLT member, shaping site priorities and providing independent technical challenge. Standards and compliance: Maintain effective quality systems, HACCP and manufacturing standards, ensuring compliance with legal, PepsiCo and customer requirements. Quality improvement: Drive product consistency, audit readiness and complaint reduction through data-led problem solving and sustainable corrective actions. Incident management: Lead risk assessment, containment and escalation, ensuring traceability and appropriately authorised product release. Change and innovation: Ensure trials, launches, production transfers and site investments meet quality and food safety requirements before implementation. People and resources: Develop the Quality and Food Safety team, strengthen capability and ownership across all shifts, and manage departmental budgets and improvement plans. Qualifications Degree in Food Science, Food
Technology, Microbiology or a related discipline, or equivalent technical qualifications and substantial relevant experience. Level 4 HACCP qualification or equivalent, appropriate for leading the development, implementation and review of HACCP systems. Level 4 Food Safety Management for Manufacturing or equivalent, demonstrating managerial-level food safety knowledge