AddressDate: 26 Mar 2024
Location: Springburn, GLG, GB
Company: Beam Suntory
Beam Suntory is Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World. Rooted in two centuries of family heritage, Beam Suntory has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Beam Suntory is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.
What makes this a great opportunity?
Our Distilling, Bottling and Bulk Spirits operations across the UK & Ireland produce a range of premium products from our portfolio of Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey and Gin servicing a global customer base.
The role holder will be accountable for:
- Leading the Quality function within the UK and Ireland, ensuring all external and internal compliance requirements for Quality are delivered to the Group standards.
- Working with the Senior leadership team to create and deliver against the operational strategy and goals for the Scotch and Irish business
- Governs, develops and executes the Integrated Management System strategy that ensures quality assurances processes are being governed, tested and improved.
- Partners with the Global Quality team to develop, design and implement quality assurances programmes and systems that achieve best in class quality performance for spirit and case finished goods.
- Supporting, coaching and developing a high performance culture within in the Quality team
- Ensuring a continuous improvement culture is nurtured that adopts and shares best practice
Role Responsibilities
- Develops, aligns and executes the strategy for Quality Assurance (QA), IMS & ISO, documentation systems and ISO risk prevention that attains quality excellence performance in the UK and Ireland Operational sites.
- Leads a team of quality professionals and specialists, developing leadership and technical skills and capability that attains a high performing team and culture within the function.
- Leads the quality assurance program, customer complaint, risk prevention, quality improvement processes and develops strategies that protects and improves our corporate and brand image.
- Governs the standards for food safety, product assessment and product risk ensuring compliance at Beam Suntory sites and co-manufacturers.
- Manages the Quality Assurance and Acceptance processes for all third-party Co-Manufacturers in UK and Ireland, liaising with Central Technical on auditing processes and standards.
- In collaboration with the Operations team, continuously evolves the production operating standards through the TRACC Quality, Visual Management and 5’s program striving for industry best in class.
- Resolves relevant tactical and strategic gaps raised from the IMS and central audits that elevates our internal compliance and performance to the Group Quality standards to be upper quartile.
Role Responsibilities (cont.)
- Ensures compliance with all relevant legislation, policies and procedures through a holistic and focused auditing program and IMS structure.
- Leads and supports the food safety program and develops strategies for the prevention/mitigation of product and food safety risks including the development and execution of contingency plans.
- Works in collaboration with Procurement and Packaging development to ensure Supplier audits and verification processes are defined, developed, and audited at least annually under the IMS process.
- Develops, manages and delivers against the functional cost center budgets to ensure maximum return on investment.
- Develops and executes a strategy to enable the sharing and adoption of learning from other facilities (internal and external benchmarking, etc.) with a kaizen mindset.
Qualifications
- Qualified to degree level in a science or technical discipline
- Comprehensive knowledge of all management and ISO Systems (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 ISO 22000 or BRC standards).
- Multi-year management experience in Manufacturing and Technical/Quality functions
- Senior Leader with skills to lead, motivate and manage people and a high-level knowledge of Supply Chain and general business understanding.
- Previous premium drinks / spirits sector experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a highly matrixed, multi site and ideally international environment.
At Beam Suntory, people are our number one priority, and we believe our people grow together in diverse and inclusive environments where their unique insights, experiences and backgrounds are valued and respected. Beam Suntory is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, military veteran status and all other characteristics, attributes or choices protected by law. All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant’s skills and experience.
