Compliance Manager

Fixed Term Opportunity until End of June 2027

Location: Tuscany – Wakefield

Hours of work: Monday to Friday

Benefits include: a profit related bonus, life assurance, discount vouchers, health and wellbeing support, free onsite parking, canteen, onsite physio, holiday purchase scheme

Are you an experienced Food Safety Manager, Quality Manager, or a Technical Manager within a food manufacturing environment, and looking for your next challenge? We have a new opportunity for an experienced Compliance Manager in our Tuscany Bakery.

Our Compliance Manager is the food safety and hygiene subject matter expert and will lead our operations in achieving and improving our compliance standards. You will support the site to always be audit ready for unannounced BRC audits, working with Kosher and Halal food standards, and have experience of managing external audits in your previous roles.

You’ll be our safe pair of hands, able to pick up the day to day from a supported handover whilst also being able to make your own impact with ongoing projects. We have a brilliant team and with additional support from our Centre Quality teams, you’ll be able to hit the ground running.

The Recipe

Working closely with the Food Quality team and Manufacturing teams you will be the food safety & hygiene lead to ensure processes are proactively managed using evidence led data, continuous improvement techniques that are measured by company KPI’s and implementing the Unbeatable Quality Strategy to ensure Warburtons manufactures and distributes products to the required standard.

Our Compliance Manager is responsible for implementing and managing the food safety and hygiene standards in the Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure that all relevant standards are achieved. You’ll work in partnership with the production teams to ensure operations are conducted in compliance with Warburtons standards whilst meeting all applicable external requirements. You’ll be the site lead for food safety requirements including microbiological product and environmental monitoring. Legionella and allergens.

You’ll be a key contributor to the generation and delivery of national and local strategies, management of budgets, profit delivery plans and implementation of business plans. Our Compliance Manager will be the food safety and hygiene subject matter expert in leading the site to achieving and improving compliance standards.

Working collaboratively, you’ll ensure that our colleagues fully understand the importance of food safety and hygiene at site; responsible for ensuring training and delivery plans are in place to enable our teams to have the appropriate skills and competency. Also working with our Head Office Quality team, manufacturing, and distribution to write and develop appropriate food safety and hygiene related training.

We are looking for you to have a coaching and motivational style to encourage the team to achieve plans, goals, and targets; working with site engagement plans to ensure delivery. You’ll be strong in people leadership and performance management with a natural communication style.

Key Accountabilities and Measures

• Lead and enable the site (s) activities in delivering unbeatable quality products working in collaborative partnership with site and Centre Quality colleagues.
• Act as the food/feed safety and hygiene subject matter expert to lead the sites in achieving and improving compliance standards.
• To identify opportunities and development plans for improvements and achieve within agreed timescales.
• Implement and manage the food/feed safety and hygiene standards in the Quality Management System to ensure that all relevant standards are achieved.
• As part of the Manufacturing Leadership Team, contribution to the generation and delivery of national and local strategies.
• To work in collaboration with the Technical Manager to manage all internal (site and inter-site) and external audits, including relevant regulatory body interventions. 
• To manage suppliers of services & products that can impact hygiene.  
• To ensure at site that all employees understand the importance of food/feed safety and hygiene at site(s). 
• To lead, motivate, coach and develop Compliance team member(s) to achieve the plans, goals and targets set.

Essential Ingredients

• Experience in managing food/feed safety and hygiene function at a food company (ideally within FMCG sector). 
• Science/food-based background with food technology qualifications or similar.
• Quality management systems Lead Auditor / Auditor qualifications. 
• Minimum Level 4 HACCP & Food Safety qualifications.
• Good knowledge and understanding of food microbiology. 
• Passed Level 2 Certificate in Pest Management.
• Trained and competent in COSHH & IOSH Managing Safely.
• Proven track record quality systems and external standards implementation.  
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages.
• HS&E, food/feed Safety, hygiene systems and legislation knowledge.
• Knowledge of cleaning methodologies and the application of cleaning chemicals.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement techniques.

Desirable 

• Understanding of CIP systems, risks and optimisation opportunities.
• Knowledge of SAP ERP applications. 
• Knowledge of industrial bakery processes: plant, product, ingredient functionality and process technology.

Extra Dough

At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth.

As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a fifth-generation family, with the introduction of the sixth generation, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products including gluten and wheat free. Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch, join us and you too could be proud to be Warburtons.

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.