Quality Manager

JR United Kingdom; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Quality Manager (with an international remit)

Didsbury, South Manchester

Competitive salary plus excellent benefits package

Hybrid Working

St Pierre Groupe – rejecting ordinary in relentless pursuit of extraordinary.

As part of our dedicated Global Quality & Compliance (Q&C) team based in Manchester (UK), you will serve as St Pierre Quality Champion, ensuring we delight our customers and consumers across all regions in which we operate.

St Pierre is a rapidly growing business with an expanding international presence and ambitious plans for global success. We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Quality Manager who is eager to work on diverse projects and adapt to the evolving needs of the business. The ideal candidate will be passionate about tackling challenges, finding innovative solutions, and collaborating closely with our bakery partners and colleagues within Grupo Bimbo, across several countries and continents.

About the role: As part of the Grupo Bimbo family, ‘superior quality always’ is a core belief of the organisation. At St Pierre, quality is our priority in our mission to make every day extraordinary. Reporting to our Head of Quality & Compliance, key responsibilities include:

• Ensure quality KPIs are managed and deliver accurate reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Local (EU) and international site visits to bakeries and service providers.
• Attendance of trials, preproduction or first production runs.
• Management of non-conformances and closure with bakery partners via root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Work closely with our bakery partners’ quality teams, building relationships and having regular quality meetings.
• Lead quality initiatives with our bakery partners.
• Lead crisis management, using risk assessment techniques to co-ordinate actions.
• Animate and develop St Pierre Quality culture.
• Develop and improve St Pierre internal Quality systems.

About you: The successful candidate will have a successful track record of relevant experience in a food sector Quality role and/or food manufacturing or factory environment. Your profile will include:

• BSc Accredited Degree (Hons) in Food Technology/Food Science etc. or equivalent industrial experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in a food sector quality role and/or factory environment.
• Organised and efficient at prioritising workload to meet deadlines.
• Strong team player with ability to work on your own as well.
• Self-motivated, works well under pressure and achieve consistently high results.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical mind and decision-making skills.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining relationships with customers and foreign bakery partners, via first class communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft programmes, in particular Excel (additional training can be provided).
• Fast learner when it comes to IT software/programmes.
• Bakery category experience an advantage.
• French and/or Spanish speaking an advantage.
• Has full driving licence.
• Ability to travel at short notice if required (as exception).
• Not restricted from travel to US.
• Resilience and a sense of humour!

About the package: At St Pierre Groupe our employer brand is important. In addition to salary, we offer an extremely attractive benefits package consisting of:

• Annual bonus (details to be provided).
• Defined contribution pension scheme (8% employer, minimum 1% employee contribution).
• Private Health Insurance and Medicash (after 6 months service).
• International Travel Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Annual Leave of 27 days + 1 day for your Birthday + statutory days.
• Flexible working (start time between 8am-10am) + early Friday finish.
• Hybrid working with a mix of 3x onsite and 2x remote days.
• Excellent work location at Didsbury Towers with onsite café, parking, and events.

It’s a great place to work!

About us! St Pierre Groupe is an international market leader in the bakery sector, delivering world class bakery products under our brands – St Pierre and Baker Street. Our products are on shelves in global retail and wholesale markets, as well as the hospitality industry and online across the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East. In 2022, St Pierre Groupe joined Grupo Bimbo, becoming part of the world’s biggest bakery business. Flagship brand, St Pierre has been a finalist for The Grocer Gold Award’s Brand of the Year three times and in 2024 was also shortlisted for bakery brand of the year at Baking Industry Awards. Across its HQ in Manchester, UK and teams in America, St Pierre Groupe employs more than 90 associates, who all share the same passion for quality. We are on a mission to make the everyday extraordinary. We reject ordinary. We demand the best of each other. We delight our customers and consumers – always magnifique. We obsess about French deliciousness – brioche, bakery and beyond. Our curiosity, imagination and courage drive us to create the extraordinary. Born in Manchester but stylishly Parisian, we are unconventional. In a world of beige, we are proudly orange. We deliver our goals without compromising our people, communities, or planet. St Pierre Groupe.