Job Title
Food Safety Coordinator - FTC
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Regulatory and Registration
Closing Date
30 March 2025
Everything about Asda
We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.
Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.
We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
Everything you'll love
* Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda has it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs. Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.
* Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
* Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
* Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
* 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
* Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
* Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
* Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
* Free onsite parking – you can also use it outside working hours.
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months.
Find your role
As a fast-paced organisation with over 1000 sites, Asda’s food safety programme is continually evolving. The business has ambitious plans for growth and embraces new ideas and innovation to support operational teams to succeed. As part of the Food Safety team, you will be supporting the business to effectively manage operational food safety and hygiene requirements across all of our sites.
* Support Food Safety Managers to develop food safety policy, process and operational ways of working.
* Manage the Food Safety Inbox to support key stakeholders with general queries, enforcement contacts, complaints and the wider team with any admin tasks. Aligned to this, the ability to create and follow processes accurately to ensure consistency within the team.
* Support the field-based teams on enforcement contact in relation to food safety matters.
* Manage some elements of the communication plan with the creation of meaningful food safety and hygiene awareness campaigns.
* Ability to manage action plans, reporting and site queries as part of our pest management and audit programmes.
* Have experience of or be willing to learn about Food Hygiene Ratings and in conjunction with the Food Safety Managers, manage programme to better store ratings.
* Proficient use of Microsoft Suite with ability to analyse data and present findings.
* Preferred knowledge of SAP to enable support with queries.
* Support may be required from time to time on some workstreams in the Product Safety team (knowledge not essential for applicant but a willingness to learn) which the Food Safety Team works alongside.
Let's find out about you
* The role requires good general food safety and hygiene knowledge, a minimum of a Level 2 in Food Safety is essential.
* You will have experience of working in a similar role across a large national retailer.
* An ability to engage across multiple channels and work effectively and collaboratively across different teams.
* An ability to deliver accurately and at pace in a complex and ever-changing environment.
* You will lead by example and do the right thing whilst being open, honest, and accessible.
* Excellent business partnering, written and verbal communication skills are essential.
* This role requires a degree of autonomy and ‘can do’, but will be guided by the Food and Product Safety Senior Manager, and the Food Safety and Product Safety Managers in the team.
* Able to travel to sites as required as part of projects/key workstreams.
Find your everything at Asda - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.
We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* 15% colleague discount in store and online
* Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
* Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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