Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager

Greencore (Formally Bakkavor Group); Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Company share save scheme

Greencore qualifications

Exclusive Greencore employee discount

Wellbeing Centre platform

Competitive pension contributions

Job summary

Greencore, formed after the January 2026 merger with Bakkavor, seeks an Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager in the UK. The role manages inbound compliance across materials, packaging, and QA systems, interfacing with sites, suppliers and authorities to uphold standards and legal requirements.

You will drive audit readiness, maintain QMS documentation, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure supply chain integrity and safety across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Service Supplier Management.
• Greencore site visits.
• System management and auditing skills.
• Influencing skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Customs and SPS controls for importing goods.

Responsibilities

• Raw Materials Compliance and Set Up - ensure approvals, specs and standards are met across sites and customers.
• Quality Management Systems - manage and update QMS docs to align with accreditations and legislation.
• Inbound Supply Chain compliance and Set Up - apply standards and maintain legal controls for service suppliers and product controls.
• Audit - establish and maintain internal auditing against QMS with timely closures.
• Management and support - support senior team and promote QA culture across inbound logistics.
• Site and central Interaction - engage with central functions and sites to align compliance controls.
• Communication - communicate technical issues and horizon scan future concerns with GC technical teams.
• Health and Safety - operate safely and support continuous improvement in HSE.

Skills

Service Supplier Management

Greencore site visits

System management and auditing skills

Influencing skills

Presentation skills

Customs and SPS controls for importing

Job description

Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately GBP4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Role Purpose:

Manage compliance for inbound supply chain, this may include; Raw Materials, Packaging control, Quality Systems and Technical Administration. Interfacing and providing effective communication with group services, sites, suppliers and authorities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Raw Materials Compliance and Set Up - ensure all raw material product approvals, specs, and other standards are compliant with site, group and customer requirements, and details are set up in relevant systems before launch. Any issues should be proactively dealt with and escalated to the relevant technical manager.
• Quality Management Systems - Manage and develop the Quality Management System across the inbound logistics functions, ensuring that all QMS documentation is up to date, relevant & controlled and meets the requirements of accreditations held, legislation, industry standards and Greencore group. Where requirements for Inbound Supply chain are not specified, or not considered complete enough, then review customer, business and industry codes of practice (including AEO and other related areas) and implement agreed procedures and controls, updating Update QMS as appropriate, communicating to the business, central technical and sites effectively
• Inbound Supply Chain compliance and Set Up - Understand and apply relevant standards, codes of practice and ensure all legal requirements are achieved and maintained to ensure effective controls for assuring supply chain integrity and security. Including administration of relevant set up information for service suppliers and product controls through risk assessment. Communicating integrity controls for sites receiving materials through inbound logistics operation.
• Audit - To establish and maintain a process of internal auditing against the QMS to ensure compliance, actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales to drive standards and compliance. To establish or review and amend procedures as required by accreditations held, new business initiatives or new internal systems.
• Management and support - Proactively participate in the Senior team, provide practical support across the different functional teams in inbound logistics, to drive to promote a Quality Assurance culture in the business
• Site and central Interaction.Proactively engage with central functions and all sites receiving materials through BIL, communicating and aligning Inbound Logistics compliance controls.
• Communication - To positively communicate technical issues and horizon scan future concerns. To collate information relating to food issues / scares and similar events and communicate to Technical Management Team and other key business interfaces as required. Communication with GC Central technical function, Site Technical teams and Inbound Logistics SLT
• Health and Safety - To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Service Supplier Management
• Greencore site visits
• System management and auditing skills
• Influencing skills
• Presentation skills
• Customs and SPS controls for importing goods

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• 25 days Holiday
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform