Quality Specialist - Co Pack Operations (FTC 12 months/mobile role)

at  Britvic

At Britvic, we make, market and sell great-tasting soft drinks, offering refreshments to billions of consumers worldwide. We’re constantly refreshing and reimagining our business, ensuring it’s innovative and evolving while staying true to our vision – to be the most dynamic soft drinks company, creating a better tomorrow. We’ve been home to iconic brands for over 100 years, and our relevance is anchored in an authentic heritage. Delivering our vision is down to the passion of our people, and we create conditions for everyone to thrive and grow. From our international supply chain and network of partners, we export to over 100 countries, offering opportunities for our people and businesses to grow.

• Drive performance on key elements of the KPI Quality Scorecard, including Cost recovery, Safety, Right First Time, Consumer Complaints, Carbon, Water, Wastage, etc., ensuring monthly review meetings and reporting are completed in a timely manner.
• Work alongside Demand and Supply Planning to deliver effective supply chain performance, quality products, and ongoing continuous improvement for process, product, and pack.
• Partner with group compliance and quality functions to ensure all Britvic PLC standards and policies are met and appropriately audited.
• Support the implementation and review of Quality Plans and Systems, including HACCP, TACCP, and VACCP, with Co-Manufacturers.
• Support overall project management, including supplier auditing, onboarding of new Co-Packers, and supporting from a Business as Usual point.
• Support project delivery with Contract Manufacturers while managing the expectations of cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring product testing is completed and reviewed where applicable.
• Complete site visits and audits to ensure group compliance and quality standards and policies are met and appropriately audited.
• Ensure product traceability for finished goods and raw materials, with minimum annual testing to be completed with contract manufacturers.
• Ensure governance and maintenance of Britvic Standards with contract manufacturers and Britvic owned manufacturing sites.
• Support problem-solving and issue resolution to rectify quality failures and ensure Root Cause Analyses are completed and shared.