Risk Assessment Specialist

Great People Work Here Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals and will encourage you to do the best job you can? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, Twining Ovo delivers.

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here, but who have a real passion for the brand and a commitment to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

We are looking for detail-oriented Risk Assessment Specialists to build our team. The selected candidates will be responsible for horizon scanning and emerging risk assessments, food fraud risk assessments, raw material risk assessments as well as establish and managed annual testing programs for raw materials and finished products, participating on HACCP teams and assisting with issue. Reporting to the Quality and Food Safety Manager you will also collaborate and liaise with international quality and food safety team members, to ensure all stakeholders are aligned and sharing best quality practices.

Please note this is 12 months, fixed-term contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments, sampling plans, and quality testing for raw materials and third-party products.
• Monitor regulatory updates and provide risk insights, reports, and action plans to management.
• Manage testing data, trade association requests, and analytical compliance activities.
• Support food fraud, emerging risk, and HACCP assessments to improve product safety.
• Develop and deliver testing guidelines and quality training for new products and processes.
• Manage end-to-end specifications for third-party manufactured materials and finished goods.
• Create, maintain, and improve quality procedures, standards, and work instructions.
• Conduct internal audits and provide risk assessment to ensure compliance.
• Manage relationships with testing laboratories and support scientific studies for innovation projects.
• Promote a robust food safety and quality culture through continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills, Knowledge and Proficiency

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years’ experience in the food industry, ideally within Quality Assurance.
• Solid knowledge of HACCP, food safety, and quality management systems.
• Experience conducting risk assessments and managing testing programmes.
• Knowledge of product specification development and management.
• Good communication skills.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and standard business applications.

Benefits

• Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
• Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
• Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
• Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• SimplyHealth Cash plan
• Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Access to ABF Networking. connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.

Twinings has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.

More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.

Our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At TwiningsOvo, we believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and meaningful work. We are committed to building a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive. Inclusion is more than a goal, it’s how we work together every day. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic background or any other status protected by law and are committed to promoting diversity across our workplace.

Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.

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