Quality Assurance Manager

We’re partnering with an innovative and quality-driven food manufacturing business seeking an experienced Quality Manager to lead site-wide quality strategy and performance. This is a senior leadership opportunity where you’ll play a critical role in shaping quality culture, driving operational excellence, and ensuring products consistently exceed customer and regulatory expectations.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and develop the site Quality Team, embedding a high-performance culture focused on food safety, compliance, and continuous improvement
• Take ownership of the site Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring full alignment with regulatory, customer, and industry standards
• Act as the site’s Quality authority and HACCP lead, overseeing food safety systems, traceability, pest management, and audit readiness
• Drive Right First Time initiatives through data analysis, root cause investigations, defect prevention, and waste reduction programmes
• Lead customer, certification, and regulatory audits, ensuring exceptional audit performance and robust corrective action management
• Manage quality incidents, product holds, recalls, and investigations with a proactive, risk-based approach to protect brand integrity and consumer confidence
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Production, Engineering, Technical, NPD, and Supply Chain teams to optimise manufacturing quality and operational performance
• Deliver strategic quality improvements through KPI analysis, trend reporting, supplier quality enhancement, and continuous process optimisation

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in a Quality Management leadership role within food manufacturing or FMCG environments
• Strong working knowledge of HACCP, QMS, GMP, food safety legislation, and customer audit standards
• Demonstrated experience leading audits, incident investigations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence teams across all levels of the business
• Analytical and solutions-focused mindset with excellent organisational, communication, and problem-solving capabilities

If you believe you have the skills and personality to fit these requirements please either apply via this advert or call Henderson Brown on  for more information.