Quality & Food Safety Director

A global FMCG manufacturer are seeking an experienced Quality & Food Safety Director. This is a high-ownership role, with a focus on technical excellence, and drive a prevention-driven Zero Harm culture. If you thrive on solving real-world problems, leading through influence, and keeping consumer safety at the heart of decision-making, this Quality & Food Safety Director opportunity is built for you. You will have a strong quality & food safety background across FMCG or Food manufacturing with an excellent understanding of health & safety.

What You Will Do:

• Lead end-to-end Quality, Food Safety and Technical governance, ensuring robust deployment of standards across owned sites and co-packers.
• Deploy initiatives including product integrity measures, vulnerability assessments, food defence and fraud prevention.
• Own QEHS management systems and certifications, maintaining audit readiness and operational excellence.
• Guarantee end-to-end traceability from raw materials to finished goods to enable rapid issue response and continuous improvement.
• Lead incident management and technical escalation, including root cause analysis, containment, CAPA development and learning from outcomes.
• Drive Zero Harm and EHS cultural transformation through leadership visibility, safety conversations, observations and coaching.

What You Will Bring:

• Senior leadership experience in complex, multi-site FMCG environments, ideally within beverage,bottling, food or FMCG manufacturing.
• Strong QEHS governance and technical delivery.
• Advanced expertise in product quality and food safety management systems, audits and traceability, with proven incident and crisis management capability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and improve across internal stakeholders and external partners, including suppliers and co-packers.
• Strong environmental management knowledge covering legal compliance and key performance areas such as waste, wastewater and emissions.
• A relevant science or engineering background (degree level or equivalent), with qualifications such as IOSH or NEBOSH highly valued.

This Quality & Food Safety Director role plays a critical part in protecting consumers and brands by ensuring compliance, strengthening technical governance, and embedding a prevention-driven culture. The focus on Zero Harm, strong traceability and continuous improvement directly supports world-class quality outcomes, better customer confidence, and measurable improvements across quality, safety and environmental performance. The job is designed for a leader who can balance compliance with practical improvement, while delivering results across GB&I, including the Coleford manufacturing site and a wider network of co-packers and suppliers.

Location:

The Quality & Food Safety Director role is site based role near Cinderford and partnering co-packers and suppliers across the region.