Job Description
Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Leeds
Ways of Working: Flexible working with travel to sites and suppliers across UK and Worldwide
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8.30 – 17.00
Contract Type: Permanent/FTC
Overview
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this busy and exciting role, you will play a key part in strengthening food safety, legality and quality across Greencore by delivering independent internal and supplier audits that drive meaningful and sustained improvement.
Role Accountabilities
- Deliver a risk‑based programme of internal and supplier audits to assess compliance with food safety, quality, legality and customer standards
- Evaluate GMP, hygiene, HACCP, allergen controls and traceability during audits to ensure sites meet required standards
- Plan, conduct and report audits independently across multiple categories, processes and locations
- Ensure food safety audits and approvals follow a risk‑assessed schedule, including emergency audits, new supplier approvals and investigations
- Provide clear feedback, highlight non‑conformances and recommend improvements to support continuous enhancement
- Maintain strong knowledge of customer COPs, ensuring these are reflected within audit standards
- Support the delivery and review of technical policies, procedures and best practice across the group
- Communicate insights and share best practice to drive consistency in compliance and technical standards
- Generate accurate KPI information to monitor performance and audit completion
- Engage effectively with internal teams and suppliers while maintaining objective, independent assurance
What We’re Looking For
Ideally you will have :
- Degree-level or Level 4 food science qualification (or equivalent relevant food science qualification)
- Level 4 HACCP and lead assessor qualification
- Strong experience of auditing within a retail food manufacturing environment
- Knowledge and experience of QMS management and internal audit processes
- Understanding of customer Codes of Practice and food legislation
- Experience generating meaningful and achievable KPIs
- Strong problem‑solving capability with the ability to diagnose issues and deliver solutions
- Holds BRC certification with supporting technical knowledge
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently across multiple sites
- Full and valid driving licence, with flexibility for regular UK and occasional international travel
What You’ll Get In Return
- Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.
We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
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