You’ll play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of food safety, quality and compliance across the plant. You’ll take ownership of the full quality lifecycle, overseeing raw materials, in-process controls and finished product release, ensuring everything meets Ferrero’s global standards, regulatory requirements and customer expectations.
You’ll drive and maintain robust quality systems, ensuring full compliance with certifications such as FSSC 22000 and embedding HACCP-based risk management across all processes. From monitoring quality trends and managing non-conformities, to leading product incident responses and supporting audits, you’ll ensure that risks are identified, managed and continuously improved.
Working closely with production teams, you’ll provide technical guidance and support to ensure processes are controlled effectively and quality is built into every stage. You’ll also play a key role in driving a strong Food Safety & Quality culture, acting as a visible ambassador across the site and ensuring best practices are consistently understood and applied.
You’ll lead and develop the Plant Quality team, creating a high-performing, engaged environment where people are supported to grow and succeed. From coaching and capability building to engagement and development planning, you’ll ensure your team has the skills and mindset to deliver excellence.
Alongside this, you’ll manage site-wide initiatives linked to Food Safety & Quality Global Pillars and Enablers (CAPEX investment included) ensuring alignment with central standards and leading local plans to strengthen compliance and performance. You’ll also take responsibility for budgeting within the function, ensuring resources are effectively allocated to support both operational delivery and continuous improvement.
Finally, you’ll act as a key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders, supporting audits, inspections and interactions with external bodies, while also collaborating with wider business functions to manage product feedback and drive ongoing improvements.
