Business Area: Cereal Partners UK
Job Title: Quality Manager
Location: Staverton, Wiltshire
Salary: In the region of £55,000- £65,00 depending on experience + 17% car allowance + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits
Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.
Position Summary
Are you an experienced Quality Manager or Food Safety professional looking for your next career move? Across our UK factory network, we have opportunities for Quality Managers to join our essential production and manufacturing operations
At Cereal Partners UK we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands such as Shreddies and Shredded Wheat. Our aim is simple: to provide high quality, nutritious and great tasting breakfast cereals. You could join our mission to create a nation of Cereal Lovers
By following company policies, standards, norms and applicable legal regulations, you will act as the guardian of food safety and compliance in the site. You will have the freedom in your role to challenge all other functions in the pursuit of zero defect as the essential base for maintaining consumer trust and preference. You will promote a Quality culture across the factory teams.
A day in the life of a Quality Manager
* Reporting directly to the Factory Manager, your overall responsibility will be to ensure that quality, compliance, food safety and hygiene standards are maintained and promoted within the site.
* You will manage a quality team of up to 4 direct reports and indirect responsibility for 4 others. You will lead them to enable production and its supporting functions to maintain a stable process by carrying out process capability deployments and defining the controls and practices that ensure a reliable product and process.
* You will ensure adherence to product quality standards and good manufacturing practices including the correct implementation and supervision of the factory pest management programme.
* Manage the internal auditing programme, assessing the performance of the quality system and reporting its effectiveness to management while proposing actions for improvement. It will be your responsibility to ensure that corrective action from these audits is closed out within agreed timescales.
What will make you successful
Ideally, you will be coming to us with proven experience of quality assurance gained within a food manufacturing/production background. A strong background of line management will also be key for success in this role.
Other key credentials we will be looking for:
* QA Auditing experience.
* Essential - Ensuring full compliance to all Quality Management Systems
* Microbiological knowledge along with food technology and hygiene experience.
* Experience of new products introduction.
* Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and principles.
* Proven record in managing quality assurance systems, including related ISO standards.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
The closing date for this role is 23 September 2025.
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don't delay in submitting your application.
At Cereal Partners, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That's why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken
Cereal Partners Worldwide is committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.