Job Title
Product Quality & Supplier Relationship Specialist
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Quality Assurance - SF
Closing Date
22 October 2025
As a Product Quality & Supplier Relationship Specialist, your role is to drive Own Brand food and drink product quality with the objective to increase Asda's quality perception with customers.
You will be accountable for ensuring that Asda products always meet the required quality specification, through testing & sampling and by driving a culture of quality within the supply base and within Asda to deliver our Quality Framework.
1. Support our suppliers to deliver great quality and value products to our customers, everyday. You will have challenging conversations with Suppliers to ensure the quality of our products are of the highest standard.
2. Champion Asda’s standards within the business and with suppliers so all of our products meet or exceed customer expectations. This will include challenging internal stakeholders if quality isn’t up to standard.
3. Take the lead on customer quality dissatisfaction, leveraging the power of internal stakeholders and suppliers to bring about meaningful and sustainable change.
4. Lead and own investigations into product quality fails, customer quality complaints and online reviews as examples of accountable metrics
5. Take a leading role in assessing product quality after product launches– so we all deliver right first time for customers
6. Maintain a strong grip on key customer quality KPIs that you robustly deliver within your accountable area
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7. A passion and knowledge of food & quality.
8. You will be required to sample products to check for quality
9. Degree or equivalent experience in relevant product or scientific area
10. Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience making difficult decisions.
11. Ability to interpret data and represent data to present
12. Strong communication skills, ability to influence/ cascade information to the wider business/Suppliers
13. An understanding of technical and manufacturing processes
14. Commercially & customer aware
15. Experience within a retail/manufacturing environment
16. Be able to build strong sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships with key Suppliers
17. Ability to prioritise and flex to business needs
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To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
18. Discretionary company bonus
19. Company pension up to 7% matched
20. 15% colleague discount in store and online
21. Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
22. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
23. Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves