We’ve got a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Compliance Manager, Food Safety (South Wales) to join our field based retail team & for the right candidate we’re offering a very competitive industry salary.

You’ll be travelling between  our Retail stores across South Wales & Somerset. This role will play a pivotal role in upholding all elements of safety and legality and really supporting our stores. The successful candidate will be a subject matter expert in one or more of the key Safe & Legal disciplines Food Safety, Health & Safety or Trading Standards and the point of contact for our Retail stores.  Supporting Retail Senior/Regional Management they will relish in a role where they have overall responsibility for Safe & Legal, and will work to ensure the safety of our customers and colleagues as well as legality of our Brand. 

This role supports stores in Food Safety, Health & Safety & Trading Standard matters, knowledge of these areas would be an advantage but full training would be provided to the right candidate.

 

A typical week in this role looks like… 

Your home will be your base location but you’ll spend most of your time supporting stores. Mondays are a big report & meeting day where you’ll engage and deliver key updates to your region.  Your week will be driven by the business needs and will include visiting 1-2 stores a day supporting improvement plans, attending meetings, conducting audits and upskilling/coaching colleagues & managers.  Depending on location these may require you to stay overnight in a hotel.

 

As the first point of contact for Safe & Legal in your region you will take calls, attend meetings and respond to emails throughout the week.  You will build relationships and influence others to support your delivery of a Safe & Legal culture.

Virtual Technical Team meetings take place weekly for business updates and to share your experiences with your fellow Technical Managers.  

 

With an individual project to deliver you will manage your own diary to ensure business critical activities are managed and your project is delivered on time.

Role Responsibilities (this list is not exhaustive);

Provide a Safe & Legal management service for Retail stores, support in Logistics may be required occasionally.

Proactively attend regional and store meetings, build engagement with the senior teams & share data trends, working with the teams to agree suitable solutions.

Manage/coordinate activity where serious safety or legality concerns have been identified and work with stores and sites to demonstrably improve standards

Work with stakeholders to manage Enforcement activity, arrange for any necessary support, disseminate information and liaise with Enforcement Officers to reach a satisfactory conclusion

Provide a reactive service for serious food safety, trading standards and health & safety issues and incidents 

Support the central teams by providing timely information and advice

Use a partnership approach in order to coach Regional Managers, Store/Site Managers and colleagues in the required safe and legal standards/ general good practice

Build strong relationships with the retail management teams in order to be recognised as the main point of contact for all technical queries

Build and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Pest Controller) to effectively promote safety and legality