Food Safety Manager

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Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $86 billion in net revenue in 2022. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

Responsibility for the design and implementation of the Food safety & Sanitation strategy at Cupar.
Responsible for leading a team to achieve outstanding Food Safety & Sanitation results, measured through audits and scorecard data.
Deputising for QM.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for food safety and factory hygiene
• Compliance to American Institute of Bakers (AIB) & British Retail Consortium (BRC) Brand Reputation through compliance to Global Standard (BRCGS).
• Drive to reduce Harm/foreign body complaints.
• Build a "culture" which drives Food Safety throughout the site.
• Legal compliance owner (factory in control).
• Set site hygiene standards and ensure factory hygiene standards are met.
• Lead EMP program.
• Ensure key contracts ISS, Rentokil etc are driving food safety & factory hygiene standards.
• Ensure HACCP is effective.
• Management of food safety non compliances through hold and concession process, including decision making with regards to Holds in accordance with PIUK standards.
• Leading initiatives to drive correct behaviours to improve Food Safety throughout the site through the Ops Managers, Engineering Manager, SOMs.
• Driving a "shared learning" approach to drive the Food Safety agenda by ensuring incidents and experiences from any one line are acted upon across all.
• A key communicator on Food Safety and Sanitation initiatives within the UK , liaising with UK Sector Quality Manager and Global Food Safety Team, as appropriate.
• Deputising for QM both at dual site level but also within the WESA QM forum.
• QFS Project lead for both capital and commercial change.
• Working closely with Ops Managers, SOMs, Specialists and liaison with all UK Food Safety Managers.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and interpret a wide range of analytical and microbiological results and make timely and appropriate judgements based on the information.
• Ability to set, plan and see through corrective and preventative actions.
• Ability to manage cross functional "Problem Solving" teams.
• A good understanding of food safety & quality systems - including AIB/BRC, HACCP, PepsiCo Quality systems, IPS, FIC and QCDM.
• Able to apply root cause analysis.
• Lead incident investigations and understand hold and release processes & food safety risks.
• Ideally a knowledge of regulatory authorities, processes & powers (e.g Environmental health & trading standards).
• Manage key 3rd party contracts (Sanitation, pest control, etc).
• Set acceptable standards for plant hygiene and product standards.
• Own and manage HACCP for Site.
• Authorise and/or recommend release/destruction of held product after risk assessment in alignment with QM.
• Support/drive aligned approach to sustaining In-Market wins at all PIUK PC sites.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.