What will my accountabilities be? Technical leadership of your supply base categories, taking a risk assessment approach. Develop 'best in class' collaborative supplier relationships to ensure 'supplier self-managed excellence' approach. Leading regular supplier reviews that include performance assessment and target setting. Supplier onboarding and factory approvals. Regular supplier visits to ensure suppliers are aligning to our global and local standards. Using key metrics & data analysis to identify trends and work in a risk-based approach. Complaint monitoring, trending, and crisis management. Liaise with the Global Quality Systems team on specific supplier accounts, for core suppliers. Help develop key departmental systems and processes to drive change. Identification and leadership of cross functional projects to support the delivery of business objectives. Contribute technical expertise to supplier commercial and category strategy. Support with design and delivery of new product innovation throughout our stage & gate process. Effectively managing internal stakeholders, being an ambassador and expert for your area. Working as part of the on-call rota to cover weekends and holidays. What Team will I be a part? The Quality Assurance Technical Manager (QA Consultant) will work within the Quality Assurance, Nutrition and Food Safety team, which sits within the Supply Chain team at McDonald's. This role will report into the Quality Assurance Manager. Who are my stakeholders? This role will work across internal stakeholders including Sourcing, Digital, Logistics, Sustainability, Agriculture, Strategy, Food Safety, Operations, Food Development, Customer Services, Training, Communications, Marketing, Legal, McDonald's Global Supply Chain and Executive level McDonald's management. Along with external stakeholders such as Suppliers, Centres of Excellence, Local enforcement bodies - Trading Standards, EHO's and NGO's - non government organisations (lobbying groups, Greenpeace etc).