Director of Supply Chain Assurance
Location: GB or NI
Hours: Monday-Friday
Are you a senior technical leader ready to shape and safeguard end-to-end supply chain performance?
We're looking for a Director of Supply Chain Assurance to lead strategy, mitigate risk, and ensure the highest standards of food safety, quality, compliance and integrity across our supply chain.
What you'll be doing
- Leading a best-in-class supply chain assurance strategy, aligned with business and customer expectations
- Driving supplier risk management and compliance, including audits and performance frameworks
- Ensuring robust quality assurance and material specifications to meet legal and customer standards
- Overseeing a high-performing product specifications function, delivering right-first-time accuracy
- Championing continuous improvement, leveraging systems and digital solutions
- Building strong partnerships with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders
- Providing clear governance, reporting and insight to senior leadership
Essential:
- Proven experience in a senior technical leadership role within the food industry
- Strong knowledge of HACCP (Level 3+), VACCP/TACCP, and auditing standards (e.g. BRCGS)
- Experience working with major retailers and customer Codes of Practice
- Ability to lead large teams and drive strategic change
- Strong understanding of supply chain risk, quality and compliance
- HACCP Level 4
- Extensive auditing experience across multiple product categories and regions
- Knowledge of food labelling regulations
- Demonstrated success in change management and transformation
- Broad experience across factory operations, supplier management and specifications
- Animal/Poultry welfare certified
- Take ownership of a critical leadership role influencing end-to-end supply chain performance
- Work in a business committed to quality, integrity and continuous improvement
- Lead and develop a large, high-performing team
- Be at the forefront of industry standards and customer expectations
Pilgrim's Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.
Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.
Across Pilgrim's Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim's Europe team are based in our Pilgrim's UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim's Food Masters and Pilgrim's Shared Services businesses.
To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.
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Are you a senior technical leader ready to shape and safeguard end-to-end supply chain performance?
We’re looking for a Director of Supply Chain Assurance to lead strategy, mitigate risk, and ensure the highest standards of food safety, quality, compliance and integrity across our supply chain.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading a best-in-class supply chain assurance strategy, aligned with business and customer expectations
- Driving supplier risk management and compliance, including audits and performance frameworks
- Ensuring robust quality assurance and material specifications to meet legal and customer standards
- Overseeing a high-performing product specifications function, delivering right-first-time accuracy
- Championing continuous improvement, leveraging systems and digital solutions
- Building strong partnerships with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders
- Providing clear governance, reporting and insight to senior leadership
What we’re looking for
Essential:
- Proven experience in a senior technical leadership role within the food industry
- Strong knowledge of HACCP (Level 3+), VACCP/TACCP, and auditing standards (e.g. BRCGS)
- Experience working with major retailers and customer Codes of Practice
- Ability to lead large teams and drive strategic change
- Strong understanding of supply chain risk, quality and compliance
Desirable:
- HACCP Level 4
- Extensive auditing experience across multiple product categories and regions
- Knowledge of food labelling regulations
- Demonstrated success in change management and transformation
- Broad experience across factory operations, supplier management and specifications
- Animal/Poultry welfare certified
Why join us?
- Take ownership of a critical leadership role influencing end-to-end supply chain performance
- Work in a business committed to quality, integrity and continuous improvement
- Lead and develop a large, high-performing team
- Be at the forefront of industry standards and customer expectations
The company
Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.
Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.
Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.
To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.
WHJS1_NI
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