Job Introduction
This role will support the development of a ‘Quality Culture’ across our bottling and packaging operations.
You'll drive the Quality Agenda across UK and Ireland, as well as Premium & Innovation manufacturing locations. You'll be ensuring standards are championed, rigorously maintained, deployed, and embedded, to optimise product quality and deliver on customer expectations and all aspects of the premiumisation agenda.
Main Responsibility
- You'll lead, motivate and develop the Manufacturing Quality team, in line with the Company Values to maximise employee engagement.
- Champion education and deployment of specific quality standards, aligned to customer expectations and the our premiumisation agenda.
- Implement effective programmes of inspection and release on incoming materials, and final product to drive consistent standards, deploying best practice.
- Proactively support manufacturing teams to drive improvement in quality metrics, reducing parts per million defects and levels of quality related decant and repair.
- Prepare and contribute to delivery of the Quality Function annual budget.
- Improve buy-in to the quality agenda through sourcing and delivery of educational programs, supporting ongoing development of a quality culture.
- Nurture engagement with manufacturing teams, through the development of Quality Champions who will drive quality advocacy and reinforce awareness of brand standards.
- Maintain ongoing reviews of quality performance to ensure adverse trends are identified, and appropriate corrective and preventive actions are implemented to drive improvement.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Degree qualified
- A great people person and manager
- Analytical skills and a proven record of delivering results in quality excellence at a senior leadership level within FMCG.
- Demonstrable functional knowledge of working with lean six sigma (preferably black belt) methodology & practice.
- Comprehensive understanding and experience of production and packaging processed.
- Experience of working in a prestige / premium or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
Nice to haves:
- Proven record of delivering results in relation to BRC and ISO 9001 preferably with experience in auditing /assessing against legislative standards.
- Senior leadership experience in a global matrix structure.
- MCQI (Member of the Chartered Quality Institute)
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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