Material Quality Lead

Job Description :

Job Title: Material Quality Lead 

Location: Glasgow 

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 4th December 2023

Salary: £36,861.10 pa 

Full time - 38-hour week  

Take our heritage into the future.  

About Us 

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. 

Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.  

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.  

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!  

About the role 

As a Material Quality Lead you will play a pivotal role in our talented team based at Shieldhall by working closely with Diageo suppliers to optimise material quality performance across our brands to ensure food safety regulations are met, Brand integrity is upheld, and line performance isn’t impacted by material quality.

You will lead and drive the quality agenda of the site by working closely with internal stakeholders such as procurement and operations while also managing and nurturing external relationships with suppliers.

Leading the investigation of supplier material quality incidents that impact the site performance when investigating issues, ensuring robust root cause problem solving processes are used to resolve issues. Reporting and escalating any supplier incidents ensuring management are aware of significant internal incidents.

You’ll provide support and training to site employees on material issues, driving improvement in their understanding of packaging materials and the interaction between materials, equipment and operating procedures on packaging lines.

You’ll be expected to prepare and publish weekly & monthly reports and support the continuous improvement plans relating to supplier quality, supplier improvement and quality process/system improvement.

About you  

For this role it would be beneficial if you have experience working in FMCG environment, but this is not essential.

The successful candidate will have demonstratable knowledge of Quality and Food Safety legislation and standards.

Full UK Drivers License is required for this role.

Proactive and structured problem-solving approach with a focus on corrective and preventative action

Benefits 

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including salary, pension, product allowance, 6 months family leave regardless of gender and many more. 

Diversity statement  

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. 

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings. 

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Shieldhall

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2023-11-20