Senior Quality Technologist - St Pierre Groupe Ltd (Interim - 12 months FTC with hybrid working)

St. Pierre Groupe Ltd c/o Oakleigh Resourcing; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

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

This is a rare career opportunity to join our multi-talented Quality and Compliance team, on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave.

About the team: Our Quality and Compliance team (of 11) is responsible for ensuring all products launched by St Pierre Groupe are safe, legal, and meet the agreed quality standards. We’re a team of ‘foodies’ who work closely together with a supportive and collaborative approach.

About the role: This is a multi-faceted role with breadth, as Senior Quality Technologist you’ll work closely with suppliers and the wider St Pierre team to ensure that our stringent quality aspirations are met. You’ll need great communication and influencing skills. Reporting to our Quality Manager, your key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the quality of our St Pierre range designing quality attribute standards, identifying emerging quality issues, and working with suppliers on sustainable corrective actions.
• Relationship management with key suppliers, regular meetings, and site visits to ensure quality standards are achieved.
• Work closely with NPD team on development projects and attendance of first production runs to ensure successful launches.
• Investigation/resolution of customer complaints and non-conformances via root cause analysis.
• Generation and design of Quality KPIs and performance reports to internal/external stakeholders.
• Work with international key stakeholders to ensure St Pierre brand quality is maintained.
• Lead internal quality initiatives.
• Develop and improve St Pierre internal Quality systems and QMS.
• Management of the internal product quality system, ensuring all product testing is carried out according to schedule.
• Maintain St Pierre Groupe A&B BRC certification
• Some international travel will be required.

About you: The successful candidate will have a track record of relevant experience in a QC / QA / Technologist role and factory environment. Your profile will include:

• BSc Accredited Degree (Hons) or equivalent industrial experience.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining relationships with suppliers, via first class communication and interpersonal skills. Confident IT user – this role will require use of Quality Management systems (training will be provided), previous knowledge of Microsoft Office, TEAMs Bakery category experience an advantage. French and/or Spanish speaking is not essential but would be magnifique. Trouble shooter - excellent problem solving, analytical mind and decision-making skills. Independent self-starter, and equally strong team player Organised and efficient at prioritising workload to meet deadlines.
• Full Driving license required.

About the package: At St Pierre Groupe our employer brand is important. In addition to salary, we offer a very 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 it’s 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: We reject ordinary in our relentless pursuit of the extraordinary.