Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Full-time, Permanent Position

Location: Leven

End date to apply: 08th Feb.'2025

About the Function

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the Role

You will be Quality Manager for the Luxury production department (LPA) with Leven Packaging. You will be responsible departmental quality from inbound to outbound, and support both Customer Operations with market concerns and markets directly. The role holder will lead and drive the quality agenda of the department by working closely with site Governance and internal business stakeholders such as Procurement and Innovation &Brand Change; while also leading and nurturing external relationships with suppliers. Being able to apply a customer focused lens, you should be a leader with strong functional understanding of quality and be able to apply it to food safety, compliance, material quality and finished goods specifications.

In this role you will be responsible for driving a wide area of initiatives like:

• Crafting team direction, with an inclusive culture and effective employee quality engagement.
• Quality competence, training and verification processes.
• Implement internal continuous improvement plans, leading quality standards.
• Develop relationships with suppliers - handling these to reduce quality non-conformance.
• Emphasis on supplier capability and supplier performance management.
• Robust quality incident investigation and customer concerns.
• Be a great partner with markets and luxury supply chain around quality.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• To be a people manager with strong interpersonal and leadership skills and ability to communicate to all levels across the site.
• Experience working in a process environment, with evidence to demonstrate ability to develop effective working relationships with internal and external partners and cross functional teams to deliver organisational efficiency and improved business performance.
• You have experience in a quality role and have led projects with multi-disciplined teams.
• You may have experience in utilising manufacturing excellence tools and techniques such as 5S, lean six sigma.
• Ability to manage a team, motivate change and bring others with you on that journey.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Private medical insurance
- Product allowance
- Access to discounts at 1000's of retailers
- Contributory pension of up to 14% by Diageo
- Company freeshares
- Sharesave/sharepurchase/sharematch options
- Cycle to work scheme
- 34 days annual leave per annum including bank holidays
- 6 months of paid parental leave (regardless of gender)

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Join us, and you'll be celebrated for your work and empowered to be you. Together with people around the world, you'll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a tomorrow worth celebrating.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world's very best people. Join us and help to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

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