Job Introduction
Are you passionate about maintaining the highest quality and food safety standards? At William Grant & Sons, we are seeking a Compliance and Quality Systems Advisor (on a 10-month FTC basis) to ensure our products meet rigorous safety and quality requirements while driving continuous improvement.
In this role, you’ll support and advise our operation sites in maintaining, enhancing and applying governance to a full range of our internal processes. Your expertise will help us uphold our quality systems and food safety standards, contributing to our reputation for excellence.
Main Responsibility
- You will be responsible for ensuring compliance and governance with food safety regulations certification standards, and internal processes.
- Supporting internal and external audits, you will work closely with the BRC and ISO 9001 programmes, maintaining the quality management system.
- You will also collaborate with the Supplier Quality team around supplied material governance, assist in the auditing of new co-packer partners and suppliers, and the investigation of customer complaints, ensuring preventive actions are implemented effectively.
- Additionally, you will lead or support projects aimed at improving quality systems, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, and ensuring our quality standards remain industry-leading.
Our Ideal Candidate
Must have:
- Proactive approach with the ability to anticipate challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and take ownership of tasks to drive them to completion.
- Decisive and able to take initiative.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Experience in quality governance and compliance.
- Experience in quality systems and food safety management.
- Ability to travel within the UK and Ireland (up to 15%).
Nice to have:
- Technical experience with packaging raw materials and packaging processes.
- Knowledge of certification standards, including BRC and ISO 9001.
- Proficiency in using Quality Management System tools such as IQMS or similar.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
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