Technical Analyst - Quality Assurance - Bridgwater

Morrisons; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% in-store discount

Career progression and development

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension and life assurance

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a detail-orientated Quality Assurance Analyst to join the Technical Corporate Services team, supporting our Logistics function. You will manage, analyze, and report technical data to ensure fresh produce and other goods meet our high standards.

You will lead QA Analysts across the UK, monitor food safety compliance, and translate complex data into clear management information to support procurement and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Proven QA background in Produce / Fresh food industries.
• Experience in data management, trend analysis, IT systems, and technical reporting.
• Working knowledge of HACCP principles to support product safety and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent leadership, team management, communication and report-writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of QA Analysts to ensure products meet specifications and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Communicate product issues promptly to protect customers and maintain availability.
• Provide coaching and operational support to build capability and consistency.
• Analyze KPIs, complaints, and intake data; identify recurring issues and drive corrective actions.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Data management

HACCP knowledge

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Science

Tools

Excel

IT reporting systems

Job description

This role is open exclusively to internal colleagues who have been formally placed under consultation. Applications from other colleagues will not be considered at this stage.

While we are committed to supporting colleagues during this period, applicants will still be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the selection process.

About the Role

We’re looking for a detail-orientated Quality Assurance Analyst to join our Technical Corporate Services team, supporting our Logistics function. In this key role, you’ll be responsible for delivering great quality and safe products for our customers by managing, analysing, and reporting technical and quality data.

You’ll ensure the quality of fresh produce, horticulture, meat, fish & chilled products arriving into our depots meets our specifications. The role supports in driving a quality culture across logistics sites and managing a team of Quality Assurance Analysts based across the UK. By monitoring food safety compliance across global supply chains and translating complex data into clear management information, you’ll enable the Technical and Trading teams to protect customer safety, avoid brand risk, and make smart procurement decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and support a team of Quality Assurance Analysts responsible for ensuring Morrisons products meet the required specification, ensuring appropriate action is taken where non-conformities are found, providing timely and accurate feedback to key stakeholders that drives continuous quality improvement.
• Ensure the QA team provides timely communication of product issues, enabling the business to protect customers and maintain product availability.
• Provide day to day coaching, guidance and operational support to drive capability, confidence and consistency.
• Collate, analyse, and report technical KPIs, customer complaints, and intake assessments on weekly, quarterly, and annual frequencies. Through trending and analysis, identify recurring issues and implement corrective actions with internal teams and suppliers.
• Provide objective, fit-for-purpose technical reports that help performance-manage suppliers and drive process and quality improvements.
• Manage governance for product specification systems to ensure accurate food safety due diligence across thousands of growers and hundreds of packing sites globally, and support Produce Technical Managers in issuing and validating QAS specifications.
• Review customer complaint trends, external and internal feedback, identifying product issues to alert teams to coordinate withdrawals or recalls when necessary - ensuring these are responded to and communicated in a timely manner.
• Develop, issue, and maintain clear, concise technical policies, standards, and procedures for internal and external stakeholders, overseeing delivery of internal and external training for Technical & Logistics teams.
• Build effective relationships across the business, influencing stakeholders (Logistics, Central, Suppliers), investigating and resolving quality & compliance issues, identifying and challenging practices that impact waste, availability and sales.
• Provide technical guidance and support operational decision-making on complex quality issues, balancing commercial, customer and food safety priorities.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen quality standards and improve operational ways of working.
• Act as the escalation point for quality concerns, providing practical solutions and ensuring issues are resolved efficiently.
• Champion Quality culture; building and sharing knowledge of quality, promoting product safety and compliance at all times.
• Attend relevant meetings (RDC, Central and Supplier) to review and communicate KPIs, quality performance and improvement actions.
• Support Technical projects and trials where required.

Key Relationships

You’ll work closely with:

• Produce and Fresh Technical Teams
• Produce Trading and Manufacturing Teams
• External Suppliers and Growers
• Food Safety and Compliance Teams

About You

You’ll be an analytical, quality-focused technical professional with strong data management capabilities and a sharp eye for detail.

You’ll have:

• Proven Quality Assurance background & knowledge gained in Produce / Fresh food industries and a desire to develop knowledge, passion and understanding of other fresh food categories.
• Proven experience in data management, trend analysis, IT systems, and technical reporting.
• Working knowledge of HACCP principles to support product safety and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent leadership, team management, communication and report-writing skills, with the ability to convey complex data clearly.
• Strong influencing and planning skills to keep Technical and Trading teams aligned to tight deadlines.
• The tenacity to follow up on issues, streamline processes, and reduce administrative burden.
• A strong sensory awareness (sense of taste and quality benchmark awareness) to champion customer expectations during product testing.
• A full UK driving licence for site support where required - this is a field-based role, with regular travel across the UK.

Additional -

Qualifications / Skills

• Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain - farm, supplier, logistics and store.
• Resilient and able to stay calm under pressure, with the ability to challenge effectively.
• Team player, self-motivated, flexible approach.
• Operational leadership
• Coaching and mentoring
• Change management and continuous improvement
• Stakeholder management and influencing
• Supplier relationship management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem solving and decision making in a fast-paced operational environment
• Customer-focused approach - The ability to keep the customer at the forefront of all decisions.

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave