Quality Manager in Food Production in Cambridge

Quality Manager
Cambridgeshire
Monday to Friday | 8:00am – 5:00pm
Permanent | Full Time If you're a food Quality Manager who knows your HACCP, can hold your own with a major retail customer and doesn't believe “that's how we've always done it” is a valid quality strategy, this could be a very good move. We're looking for a
Quality Manager
to take ownership of quality across a fast-paced, perishable goods environment. This is not just about audits and paperwork. You'll be managing standards across raw materials and finished goods, analysing quality data, leading a team and working directly with key internal stakeholders and a prestigious retail customer. What you'll be doing
Managing food safety, quality and compliance across the gifting operation
Maintaining the Food Safety Management System and HACCP plans
Supporting internal, customer and third-party audits
Overseeing raw material and finished goods inspections
Managing non-conformances and corrective actions
Ensuring food labelling and customer requirements are met
Analysing quality data and reporting trends and risks
Working closely with Production, Procurement and NPD
Leading and developing the Quality team
Acting as a key technical contact for customer quality issues
Driving continuous improvement across the operation
What we're looking for
A
food or perishable goods background is essential . You'll need experience in: Food safety, hygiene and HACCP
BRCGS and customer-specific standards
Quality inspections and audits
Food labelling compliance
Data analysis and reporting
Non-conformance and corrective action
People management
Customer and stakeholder management
Just as importantly, you need a bit of presence. Someone credible. Confident. Commercially aware. You'll need to be able to challenge professionally, have difficult conversations when required and build strong relationships without simply saying yes to everything. We're looking for someone dynamic, adaptable and genuinely interested in improving things rather than just maintaining them. Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm There will need to be some flexibility during peak periods including
Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Easter Father's Day etc Why consider it?
Because this is a visible Quality Manager role where you'll genuinely have influence. You'll be working across quality, compliance, people, data and customer relationships — with the opportunity to improve standards rather than simply monitor them. If you're technically strong, commercially switched on and like getting properly involved in an operation,
click APPLY today! This role is being managed by Bea Ukaye at our Peterborough Office.
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