Senior Manager, Food Safety & Product Safety - Asda House

Job Title

Senior Manager, Food Safety & Product Safety

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive Salary plus benefits

Category

Compliance/Audit

Closing Date

11 July 2024

 

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love.”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs.
• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus, much more!

“That's more like it.”

“Find your role”.

Leading the Food Safety and Product Safety team, enabling and supporting the business to effectively manage operational food safety and hygiene risks and requirements and product safety due diligence through the supply chain.

Developing the food and product safety programme

• Lead in the delivery of a cost-effective food and product safety programme that mitigates risk
• Work cross-functionally to develop food and product safety policies and procedures that align to, and support operational ways of working and manage up-stream supplier compliance
• Evaluate and measure operational and commercial implementation of processes to close compliance gaps and continually improve the established food and product safety programme
• Maintain a robust horizon scanning programme to identify future regulatory developments and / or business risk, and share key updates with relevant business partners
• Develop measures to ensure continuous improvement through the delivery of operational simplification
• Work cross functionally coordinating with other compliance risk areas and teams to support in the implementation and development of the businesses risk assurance programme
• Objectively analyse data to support in the creation of meaningful awareness campaigns and deliver leadership programme insights

Business partnering

• Support the business in the development of new store formats and fresh food customer offers  
• Working collaboratively and cross-functionally to provide expert advice and guidance to support in the delivery of business partner strategies and the onboarding of new suppliers
• Provide expert guidance and advice on potential withdrawals and recalls for food and / or non-food products
• Lead on incident management investigations and mitigation strategies to minimise the risk of regulatory challenge or civil action

Liaising with external agencies

• Communicating and working collaboratively with external agencies, trade associations and sector specific business forums
• Working collaboratively with national regulators to influence and shape future food safety and product safety enforcement models and strategies
• Work in partnership with Primary Authority to develop, review and assure operational food and product safety policies and procedures 
• Support operational teams and commercial business partners to respond to regulatory contact in a timely, professional and considered manner
• Liaising with internal Legal team in order to provide support and advice in order to respond to any serious regulatory contact.

“Let's find out about you.”

• The role requires an excellent knowledge of the UK food safety and hygiene regulatory framework, understanding of risk, and practical food safety implementation in an operational retail environment. A food retailer would also be advantageous.
• You will be a senior manager with a strong operational food safety background with a track record of managing food safety across a large national retail/foodservice or distribution business. Experience in the convenience sector is an advantage, but not essential.
• An ability to engage across multiple channels and work effectively and collaboratively across different teams
• An ability to deliver at pace in a complex and ever-changing environment
• You will lead by example and do the right thing whilst being open, honest, and accessible
• Excellent business partnering, written and verbal communication skills are essential

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Work Where it Works   

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. 
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-
•    Discretionary company bonus
•    £8,000 company car or car allowance
•    Company pension 1.5 times colleagues contribution (Max 15%)
•    10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
 
About You

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.