Quality Team Leader - Supplier Pillar

Hybrid - 2-3 Office days, Central London

The Supplier Quality Team Leader is responsible for leading all aspects of supplier and manufacturer quality assurance, ensuring that globally sourced ingredients meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and customer requirements. The role drives supplier performance, oversees audit programmes, and strengthens the Quality Management System across the supply base. You will lead a team responsible for supplier compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement, while supporting business growth through robust, scalable, and effective quality processes.

• Personal growth, including training and development opportunities
• Health Cash Plan
• Subsidised gym membership

• Lead, coach and develop the Supplier Quality team, promoting high performance, accountability, and a proactive, solutions focused culture.
• Set clear priorities and manage team workload across supplier audits, compliance activities, and documentation.
• Act as deputy to the Assistant Quality Manager as required, ensuring continuity of leadership and decision making.
• Own the end to end supplier quality lifecycle, including onboarding, approval, monitoring, requalification, and ongoing performance management.
• Lead the supplier and manufacturer audit programme and ensure timely and effective closure of non conformances.
• Ensure supplier documentation, including audit packs, specifications, certifications, and technical data, is accurate, current, and audit ready.
• Own key third party certifications (e.g. BRC, FAMI QS), working closely with certification bodies and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor supplier performance using KPIs, risk assessments, and continuous monitoring programmes, identifying trends and emerging risks.
• Drive supplier compliance improvements by working directly with manufacturers to implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Lead initiatives to improve supplier related processes, driving standardisation, efficiency, and effective use of data and performance insights.
• Act as the escalation point for complex supplier technical queries from customers and internal teams.
• Support customer audits and documentation requests, coordinating effectively with global partners.
• Collaborate with commercial and global quality teams to ensure supplier capabilities, standards, and audit approaches align with business and customer requirements.
• Support business critical and cross functional projects as required.

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in supplier quality, quality assurance, or manufacturing quality within the food or feed ingredients industry.
• Proven experience managing supplier and manufacturer relationships from a quality, compliance, and regulatory perspective.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant industry standards and schemes, including FSSC, BRC, HACCP, FAMI QS, and Organic.
• Demonstrated experience leading supplier and manufacturer audits and managing corrective and preventative action processes.
• Previous people management or team leadership experience.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to effectively influence external partners.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple suppliers, audits, and competing priorities simultaneously.

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