Senior Food Safety Specialist

Harrods Careers; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury department store in Cheltenham is seeking a Senior Food Safety Specialist to manage compliance and food safety across its restaurants. Responsibilities include leading audits, delivering training, and collaborating with stakeholders. Ideal candidates should have a degree in Food Safety and experience in a hospitality environment. The role offers a hybrid working model, balancing on-site and home working.

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing compliance in a hospitality environment.
• Experience in delivering training on food hygiene standards.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee food safety standards for new restaurant launches.
• Conduct internal audits and ensure compliance.
• Provide advice on food safety matters.

Skills

Food Safety Compliance

Auditing

HACCP Management

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

Degree in Food Safety or related field

Job description

Overview

Senior Food Safety Specialist

Join Harrods’ Food Safety & Technical team as a Senior Food Safety Specialist and lead the way in ensuring our restaurants deliver world-class food safety, legality, and integrity, from concept to launch and beyond. This is a fixed term contract until October 2026.

About the Role

As a Senior Food Safety Specialist, you’ll take a leading role in managing and monitoring food safety across Harrods’ own-run and concession restaurants. You’ll be instrumental in launching new dining concepts, ensuring strict compliance with food safety legislation, and embedding a culture of safety throughout the business. Collaborating with stakeholders, delivering training, and keeping pace with evolving regulations will all be key to your success.

• Overseeing food safety standards for new restaurant launches, ensuring all documentation, systems, and training are in place ahead of opening.
• Conducting internal audits, reviewing compliance, and driving timely closure of non-conformances.
• Providing expert advice and guidance on food safety matters in collaboration with the Food Safety Manager.
• Managing the accuracy of calorie and allergen information across platforms, ensuring legal and brand compliance.
• Delivering Food Hygiene training to front and back-of-house teams in line with legislation and best practice.

Depending on your role, you may be fully on-site or have a mix of on-site and home working – this is what we refer to as ‘Hybrid’. Our hybrid working policy allows colleagues to work from home for part of the week, with a minimum of three days on-site, depending on business needs.

Please see our Hybrid@Harrods policy on our Career Site for more information or speak to a member of our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions regarding the requirements for this role.

About You

You will be an experienced food safety professional with a proven track record in managing compliance within a high-profile or complex hospitality environment. You are confident working across departments, influencing senior stakeholders, and leading multiple projects at once. Your expertise allows you to provide practical solutions while upholding the highest standards, and your collaborative approach helps to build strong relationships across the business.

You will have:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Food Safety/Technical, Environmental Health, or related field.
• Auditing experience and HACCP management knowledge (Level 3 HACCP desirable).
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.

About Us

Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences.

Our Promise to You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.

Uniquely You

Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply.

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about life at Harrods, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods.

Additional Information

Time Type: Fixed Term

Department: Food and Safety (Caitlyn Turner)