QEHS Director: Zero Harm & Quality Strategy Leader

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I; Coleford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I is seeking a senior QEHS leader to drive quality, environment, health and safety governance across multiple sites. You will shape policies, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead a prevention-driven Zero Harm culture with robust audit readiness.

As a strategic, cross-functional leader, you will deploy standards such as ISO, FSSC and AIB, manage risk, champion continuous improvement and build capability across QEHS teams and co-packers to safeguard consumers and

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in multi-site FMCG environments, preferably beverage or bottling.
• Advanced expertise in Product Quality and Food Safety management systems, audits and traceability.
• Strong incident and crisis management capability.
• Proven ability to deploy behavioural safety programmes and lead culture transformation.
• Solid environmental management knowledge including legal compliance, wastewater, waste, emissions and resource efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Quality, Food Safety & Technical Governance ensuring full compliance with Suntory standards, regulations and best practices.
• Deploy Protect the Castle initiatives to safeguard product integrity, vulnerability assessments, food defence and fraud prevention.
• Own QEHS management systems and certifications (e.g., ISO, FSSC, AIB), sustaining operational excellence and audit readiness.
• Guarantee robust end-to-end traceability from raw materials to finished goods for rapid issue response.
• Lead technical and service teams for new product industrialisation and oversee incident management framework including escalation, root cause analysis, containment, CAPA and continuous improvement tools.
• Champion and lead full deployment of the Zero Harm programme to build a proactive, prevention-driven EHS culture focused on behaviours and risk elimination.
• Embed Zero Harm principles into daily operations with site leaders and frontline teams to strengthen awareness, accountability and safe decision‑making.
• Drive SBFE EHS strategy through structured cultural transformation including leadership visibility, safety conversations, observations and coaching.
• Ensure full compliance with environmental and safety regulations, managing waste, wastewater, recycling, emissions control and resource efficiency.
• Strengthen risk prevention, governance and performance tracking including hazard identification, risk assessments, near‑miss reporting, safe systems of work and leading indicators.
• Shape and drive the QEHS strategy and roadmap for GB&I ensuring alignment with SBFE direction and business needs.
• Provide financial leadership and oversight of QEHS variable spend including contracted services, laboratories and technical programmes.
• Build organisation capability through engagement, development, talent management and succession planning across QEHS and technical teams.
• Lead cross-functional and international projects ensuring capital investments meet QEHS requirements and are delivered safely, on time and within scope.

Skills

QEHS governance

Leadership

ISO/FSSC/AIB standards

Traceability

Incident management

Regulatory compliance

Audits

Education

Chemistry/Biology/Engineering degree

Job description

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I is seeking a senior QEHS leader to drive quality, environment, health and safety governance across multiple sites. You will shape policies, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead a prevention-driven Zero Harm culture with robust audit readiness.

As a strategic, cross-functional leader, you will deploy standards such as ISO, FSSC and AIB, manage risk, champion continuous improvement and build capability across QEHS teams and co-packers to safeguard consumers and