Raw Material Quality Manager

We're looking for a Raw Materials Quality Manager to join our Technical team at our Clitheroe site, playing a key role in ensuring the highest standards of food safety, quality, legality and customer compliance.

At The Compleat Food Group, we’re proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion. Formed in 2021, we’re on a mission to create

Food to Feel Good - great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We’re home to some of the UK’s most exciting and loved food brands, including

Wall’s Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless. Alongside our branded portfolio, we’re a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added-value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant-based food to the UK’s major retailers, as well as across food service.

Withover 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we’re united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Clitheroe

Monday - Thursday: 8:30am - 5pm and Friday: 8:30am - 4pm

We are looking for a Raw Materials Quality Manager to lead and manage the Raw Materials Quality function across the Clitheroe sites (Lincoln Way and Twin Brook), ensuring all raw materials meet the required standards of food safety, quality, legality and customer compliance to support the manufacture of safe, high-quality products.

• Lead, develop, and manage the Raw Material team to enable them to fulfil their responsibilities
• Ensure all Raw Material team positions are robustly structured, including covering Shift Supervision where necessary
• Set objectives and performance standards for the Raw Material Team department.
• Conduct performance reviews and identify training and development needs.
• Foster a proactive food safety and quality culture across the shift with all departments.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other departments.

• Approval of raw materials and ongoing assessment against UK food law, BRCGS standards, customer Codes of Practice, internal specifications and HACCP based food safety hurdles required by the sites
• Ensure raw material controls align with the site HACCP plan, including PRPs and CCP support activities.
• Manage supplier issues, communications and enquiries related to raw materials
• Review and/or manage raw material risk assessments, including biological, chemical, physical and allergen risks
• Control raw material intake process to ensure raw materials are compliant for food safety, quality, authenticity and legality at site and at third party storage providers.
• Control sampling plans for intake of raw materials including organoleptic,microand chemical testing
• Monitor adherence to hygiene procedures and personnel practices.
• Verify effectiveness of cleaning and sanitation programmes in low-risk warehouse.
• Ensure allergen controls and segregation procedures are maintained.
• Conduct regular low-risk warehouse inspections and GMP audits.
• Identify and elevate food safety risks promptly.

• Support in certification compliance for BRCGS and customer audits at intake and the low-risk warehouse.
• Support the Site Technical Manager and be actively involved during any audit or customer visit, either through shop floor presence or documentation acquisition/presentation.
• Monitor the return of out of specification micro results for raw materials and react in accordance with quality system requirements
• Manage internal audit non-conformances for the raw materials team
• Maintain site quality documentation and records, including NCR’s and concessions raised on shift

• Oversee raw material assessment and release procedures, leveraging supply chain knowledge and seasonal factors
• Complete raw material traceability with suppliers on request including unannounced internal and external audits
• Raise non-conformances with suppliers and manage for adequate…