Product Quality Auditor
B&q
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Job summary
B&Q is seeking a Product Quality Auditor at the Southampton Store Support Office to manage vendor and exclusive brand assurance workflows. You will ensure products meet quality standards, conduct supplier audits, and monitor quality across the product lifecycle.
The role balances BAU duties with project work, reporting to a Quality Audit manager. We offer a permanent position with hybrid working (2–3 days in the office) and a salary from £40,000 to £48,000 plus a pension, PMI, ShareSave, and
Qualifications
- Role involves handling vendor and B&Q exclusive brand assurance workflows for products sold in UK and ROI.
- Responsible for product approvals, supplier audits, and quality monitoring.
- Work closely with Commercial teams to support introduction of new products and suppliers through the audit and product lifecycle plan.
Job description
- Open to Job Share, Full Time or Part Time - Permanent
If you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to help you complete your application or throughout the recruitment process, please let us know. If you would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme , please contact us at: recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk . If you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we'll consider your application in line with our Disability Confident commitments.
Permanent
From£40,000 - £48,000 + Pension + PMI +ShareSave+ 6.6 weeks holiday+ Hybrid Working (2/3 days per week in the office)
Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Product Quality Auditor and you’ll be a big part of this.
Role Purpose: Handling Vendor and B&Q exclusive brand assurance workflows for products sold in UK and ROI. As a key member of B&Q’s Product Quality Service Programme you will ensure Vendors meet B&Q’s quality policy requirements supplying products that comply with legal standards, safety requirements and policy needs. You will be responsible for product approvals, supplier audits, and quality monitoring, working closely with Commercial teams to support introduction of new products and suppliers through the audit and product lifecycle plan. Reporting into an experienced Quality Audit manager you work closely with them and the audit , quality governance and surveillance teams to identify, demand and deliver world class outputs from our suppliers. As part of the audit team, you will be deployed across the range of products to support workload balancing across the team, working together to achieve objectives. This provides you the opportunity to develop subject specialisms though BAU and project works. The role is a key actor in B&Q’s due diligence process, and you will support continuous improvement initiatives.
We want to ensure that all employees, future employees and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk .
The one we all love! Get 20% discount on your purchases at B&Q in-store and online, after you've been with us for 1 month.
Share in the success you help create. With our shareplans, from just £5 per month, you can build up a savings pot, or use what you save to be a Kingfisher share holder.
If the worst should happen, Life Assurance ensures those close to you have some protection.
We offer free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management.
We offer competitive salaries for all roles, and benchmark them, to ensure that we’re getting it right. And, as we value the contribution of all our colleagues equally, whether they are 17 or 70, our rates of pay for each job is the same.
You’ll have access to the award-winning Kingfisher Pension Scheme, and we’ll put money in alongside your savings too.
We have a number of medical benefits available depending on your role to help you and your family look after yourselves.
All work and no play is no fun! So, you can enjoy 6.6 weeks' leave, plus we'll reward you with additional leave and cash rewards to celebrate long service anniversaries and milestone years.
The chance to achieve more balance between work and your other commitments.
Take advantage of fantastic discounts on loads of products and services, just for being a B&Q colleague!
We have a network of over 3,300 health clubs offering discounts to colleagues and their partners of up to 25% on self-paid gym memberships.
If you use a computer regularly for work, then we pay for your eye testevery two years. If you do require glasses, then you’ll also get £50/€70 towards single focal lenses and frames too.
Whether you are thinking green, trying to get fit or saving money, our cycle to work scheme helps colleagues spread the cost and save money on any bike and safety equipment through salary sacrifice.
Just like most families, we like to celebrate anniversaries and milestone years. For every 10 years up to 40 years’ service we give extra annual leave and a cash payment.
When you join B&Q, we want you to be all you can be. From the minute you walk through our doors to the exciting moment you make that next career move, we're here to help you make the most of every opportunity. Thanks to our friendly learning system, LEO, we make sure you always have the support you need to take on every challenge and fit your learning around your life. Here, we know that the best way to grow is together.
LEO is your every day, on the go learning and development partner. Helping you build the knowledge you need now and in the future. With LEO, you can access training and content, anywhere, anytime and on any device. You can even influence the type of training on offer by rating and recommending content, and letting us know what we can do to improve. Award-winning and featuring over 500 different learning activities - like short videos, articles, workshops and webinars - think of LEO as your 24/7 training pal, designed to help you make the most of your B&Q career journey.
Learning never stops at B&Q. Whether you've been in your role for one day or five years, there's always something to be curious about. It's why we're always creating learning opportunities and experiences that'll give you the chance to develop your skills. Like our First Line Manager programme: a course that helps our newest line managers build their confidence and management skills. Or our Leadership Development programme that challenges our more experienced leaders to reflect and adapt their approach for our ever‑evolving ways of working.
We believe anyone can learn the technical skills to do their job with excellence. It's all about attitude and behaviour here. So, if you're passionate about customer service and design, we'll teach you how to create beautiful kitchens. If you're someone who loves being outdoors, we'll help you learn about our garden ranges. And, if you're someone who just loves what we do but doesn't know where to start, we'll help you find the perfect role for you to grow into.
Whatever goal you're working to at B&Q, we want to help you get there. We do this by designing a number of programmes which help you to practice your skills and learn new ones, gain valuable experiences, learn from others and jump on opportunities that are right for you. From leaders taking their first steps into management to those simply looking for a new challenge, we're there to make sure you achieve your ambitions.
At B&Q, we want every new colleague to understand our values, our customers, and how we work together to achieve our purpose. That’s why we’ve designed an induction programme that’ll give you real insight into our business, our culture and help you feel included from day one. For your first few weeks on the job you’ll work with your team and line manager, mixing online learning with practical tasks, to grow your knowledge a little every day.
Take a tour around our office
Our Store Support Office sits within B&Q House and supports our colleagues and stores right across the UK and Ireland. In our bespoke, modern and eco‑friendly building just north of Southampton, you’ll find a friendly team of talented people in a huge range of roles.
Explore our store support office
In B&Q house, you’ll enjoy an onsite gym, a subsidised Costa, a canteen and restaurant, prayer room, plus open plan and cosy work spaces, an outdoor picnic area, and bike sheds for those who cycle in.
B&Q House has a biomass boiler, solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system. Our building also makes use of upcycled and recycled furniture and fittings, and features natural ventilation, heat retention and CO2 management, all via our very own weather station on the roof.
We want every visit to every one of our stores to be the start of something big for our customers. So, to go with the excellent service, our Commercial colleagues offer our customers a product range that ignites their imagination and kits them out with everything they need to tackle their boldest projects.
We’ll carry out a face to face or online interview (and we may request a 2nd interview if the role you’re applying for is more complex).
We’ll contact you with feedback, and maybe even a job offer.
Check out our FAQs for more information about interviewing at B&Q.
- Open to Job Share, Full Time or Part Time - Permanent
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