Job Description :

Material Quality Manager

Location: Shieldhall Packaging Site, Glasgow, Scotland

Permanent, Full-time (On-site Monday-Friday)

Closing Date : 03rd March'2025

Join our Supply Chain and Manufacturing Team

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 27,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

The Scotch Governance Team is comprised of Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality, Risk & Assurance functions, and our mission is to lead Scotch Governance with integrity; partnering growth and delivering world class reputation. Shieldhall packages a huge volume of Scotch malt whiskies, white spirits and ready to drink brands to supply over 170 countries around the world and is a key manufacturing site within the Scotch supply category.

About the Role

As the Material Quality Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our dedication to excellence. Reporting to the Scotch Category Governance Manager and being an integral part of both the Quality and wider Governance teams, you'll have the chance to have a significant impact on our operations. You will lead a team of 4 quality professionals.

Your responsibilities will span various areas, including but not limited to material quality, product quality, food safety, and compliance with ISO and Global Risk Management Standards (GRMS).You'll primarily be a key player in supporting quality excellence of our finished product, protecting both our Brands and Diageo Reputation by ensuring that the materials that make up our Brands meet specification, are compliant and continually improve. From glass to closures and labels to cases, you will work closely with our production teams and our key suppliers and partners to deliver right first-time materials to our production lines.You'll drive our quality agenda on site to ensure improved site performance against all Quality metrics and deliver site strategy goals. Your efforts will contribute to fostering a positive quality culture, promoting a "right first time" approach through employee engagement, awareness, assessment, and training.

Your role will extend beyond our Shieldhall site, as you collaborate with the broader Diageo Governance community and participate in the Global Quality Forum.

About You

We are looking for a quality manager with direct experience of managing the quality of incoming components that make up  finished product, with a background in team leadership ideally within the food and drinks, packaging industry or other fast-paced manufacturing / production environment.

You will excel as a leader, possessing strong communication skills, possess an ability to work under pressure and to work to tight timescales. You will have proactive structured problem-solving skills learnt through exposure to DMAIC, Lean, Six Sigma, TPM and Manufacturing Excellence.

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including annual bonus, product allowance, 6 months paid parental leave, private medical insurance, share options, contributary pension scheme.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values eerybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.                         

                            

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Shieldhall

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-17