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This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to continue building their technical career, driving forwards safety and quality standards within a fast-paced environment across innovative, healthy brands. You will work in a team with scope to grow and develop as our brands continue to grow.
The position will suit an energetic, passionate, self-motivated person who will drive forwards technical standards within Bear and Urban Fruit. You will enjoy a fast-paced environment, be flexible and adaptive, be a great team player and possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
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Alongside living our TOP values of Team Spirit, Open Dialogue, and Passion, the most important things we’re looking for from you are being responsible for the safety, quality, and legality of a range of products within the BEAR and Urban Fruit brands, specifically:
* Visiting and auditing 3rd party manufacturers, compiling and submitting reports, following up on any non-conformances to support due diligence required, and driving forwards continuous improvement plans.
* Maintaining supplier and product risk assessments for your area of responsibility.
* Ensuring products are compliant with relevant food and age group legislation, and proactively following up on compliance with any upcoming legislation changes.
* Ensuring quality and food safety standards are in place for all NPD/EPD projects.
* Ensuring products are produced to specification via establishing a quality and food safety monitoring process over shelf life, following up on any deviations, and making sure product specifications include appropriate quality attributes.
* Setting supplier KPIs, investigating complaints, identifying trends, and working with suppliers on complaint reduction plans.
* Raising any non-conformances and working with suppliers to identify root causes and sign off on corrective actions.
* Being the ‘go-to’ for cross-functional teams for queries related to product quality and food safety.
* Streamlining and developing the Quality Management System with the Lotus QA team, and supporting internal audits.
* Ensuring the QMS is implemented internally and externally at suppliers.
* Liaising with the central Lotus QA team and suppliers to maintain product and site certifications in line with international market requirements.
* Preparing and reporting quality KPIs to senior management.
Qualifications and Skills:
* Knowledge of HACCP and ability to apply its principles practically across different product categories.
* Good knowledge and awareness of GFSI-recognized standards.
* Comfortable performing risk assessments and communicating outcomes effectively.
* Proven track record of delivering results related to product quality and supplier compliance.
* Previous experience in a technical role, working with cross-functional departments, third-party manufacturers, and supplier audits.
* Good knowledge of Quality Management Systems, with experience in writing procedures and internal auditing preferred.
* Strong relationship-building skills.
* Highly organized with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
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