Quality Assurance, Food Safety and Nutrition Lead (12 Month FTC)

The Opportunity

The Lead Quality Assurance Food Safety & Nutrition (QFSN) is accountable for setting and delivering the endtoend QFSN strategy for McDonalds UK & Ireland ensuring the highest standards of food safety product quality legality and nutritional compliance across the entire supply chain and restaurant estate. Operating as a functional leader within the UK&I Supply Chain Leadership Team this role provides strategic direction governance and leadership across suppliers restaurants and internal stakeholders. The role ensures QFSN is a source of competitive advantage protects brand trust and enables safe compliant and innovative business growth. This role leads a multidisciplinary QFSN function and works in close partnership with Global teams franchisees and suppliers to embed a strong food safety culture robust risk management and continuous improvement mindset across the system.

What Youll Be Doing

• Set and deliver the UK&I QFSN strategy aligned to global standards and local legislation with clear priorities across food safety quality and nutrition.
• Translate business strategy into clear functional roadmaps embedding robust QFSN governance across key processes including stage & gate NPD supplier approvals and change management.
• Hold accountability for food safety quality and nutrition risk across the UK&I supply chain and restaurant estate.
• Provide leadership during incidents crises and recalls ensuring timely proportionate and wellgoverned decisionmaking.
• Oversee the effectiveness and continuous improvement of food safety management systems allergen controls microbiological programmes and nutrition compliance.
• Champion a strong food safety and quality culture ensuring accountability transparency and continuous learning across the system. 
• Lead engagement with regulators enforcement bodies and external stakeholders as required.
• Influence crossfunctional decisionmaking to ensure food safety quality and nutrition considerations are embedded early and effectively.
• Drive continuous improvement through dataled insight riskbased prioritisation and trend analysis.
• Lead develop and inspire a highperforming QFSN team building capability through succession planning coaching and talent development.
• Embed McDonalds cultural values inclusive leadership behaviours and accountability across the function.
• Rolemodel calm decisive leadership in complex and highpressure situations.

Qualifications :

What Youll Need

• Proven senior leadership experience in food safety quality assurance or technical roles within complex highrisk food environments.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy and lead large multidisciplinary teams through ambiguity and change.
• Strong track record of incident leadership risk management and regulatory engagement.
• Ability to influence at Executive level and across a broad stakeholder landscape.
• Experience embedding governance dataled decisionmaking and continuous improvement at scale.
• Degree in Food Science or equivalent experience; advanced HACCP and food safety credentials expected.

What Youll Get:

• Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including location Allowance car Allowance free parking lunch and gym access.
• Access to industry-leading training and career development opportunities.
• A collaborative and inclusive culture where your ideas are valued.
• Hybrid working offering a mix of office 3 days per week and remote for 2!

Additional Information :

Company Vision and Culture

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonalds and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.

McDonalds is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do. Our culture influences the way we interact with each other and how we interact with customers franchisees and suppliers. Our culture motivates and inspires us to attract and retain great talent creating positive energising exceptional working environment for us all.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs our priorities and our actions. They influence the decisions we make how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first
Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
Integrity: We do the right thing
Community: We are good neighbours
Family: We get better together

At McDonalds we are People from all Walks of Life... 

People are at the heart of everything we do and they make the McDonalds experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities which we are proud of. The diversity of our people customers Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality injustice or discrimination of any kind.  These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time