EVP Food Safety & Quality

QLM Search is partnering with a leading international food manufacturing group to appoint a EVP Food Safety & Quality.

Reporting directly to the CEO and joining the Executive Committee, this is a high-profile role with full responsibility for Food Safety, Quality and Technical strategy across a significant European manufacturing footprint.

The business is entering an important period of investment and development, and this position will have a direct voice in decisions around growth, investment and risk.

The EVP Food Safety & Quality will set the technical strategy across the Group, ensuring consistently high standards of food safety, quality and regulatory compliance across its manufacturing operations.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the Group's Food Safety, Quality and Technical strategy
• Setting standards and governance across a complex, multi-site European manufacturing network
• Leading executive-level technical relationships with major grocery retail and foodservice customers
• Providing the CEO and Executive Committee with clear technical leadership on investment, growth and risk
• Leading the response to significant technical or food safety issues
• Protecting product integrity, authenticity and traceability across the supply chain
• Supporting investment, acquisitions and integration from a technical perspective
• Representing the Group with customers, regulators and the wider industry

We are looking for an established technical leader with experience in a large, complex food manufacturing business.

You will bring:

• Executive-level Technical leadership experience within food manufacturing
• Strong experience working with major UK and European grocery retailers
• A track record of leading multi-site technical organisations
• Experience operating across an international manufacturing footprint
• Strong knowledge of food safety, quality, regulatory compliance and technical governance
• Experience supporting major investment, acquisitions or business integration
• A track record of successfully leading through complex technical or crisis situations
• The ability to operate comfortably at Executive Committee level while remaining close to manufacturing operations
  

This is an opportunity to take on a genuinely Group-level role within a significant European food business at an important point in its development.