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
Quality and Food Safety Manager in Leicester employer: PepsiCo, Inc.
PepsiCo UK is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises team excellence and operational success at our Coventry site. Employees benefit from comprehensive training and development opportunities, fostering personal and professional growth while contributing to meaningful projects that drive continuous improvement and equipment reliability.
