# Product Safety Manager **Company**: Asda **Location**: Asda House **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Competitive salary plus benefits **Category**: Other **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://asda.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AsdaJobs/job/Asda-House/Product-Safety-Manager_R-108194?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c58e51da-8a7 ## Description As a Product Safety Manager at Asda, you will support the business in selling safe and legal non-food products, including management and implementation of all legally required due diligence. **Key Responsibilities:** - Oversee development and implementation of the Product Safety Compliance programme to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with relevant legislation for non-food business - Provide expert guidance on potential withdrawal or recall issues based on sound risk assessment for Non-Food products - Manage information related to industry trends, standards, and regulations for Non-Food product safety - Develop standard operational procedures for product safety for Non-Food categories - Assess and support cross-functional development of product safety policies - Determine product safety procedures and measures/controls required to be followed by suppliers - Ensure product safety policies are collated, updated, published, and communicated in a timely and accurate manner - Deliver product safety training to key business partners - Provide representation to national and local regulatory agencies and external organisations - Assist with liaisons on compliance agreements with regulators - Attend industry meetings to develop Product Safety programme - Manage third-party relationships, ensuring contracts are up to date, and suppliers are held accountable to their delivery targets - Support and develop risk mitigation programs, data systems, and services - Lead the development of cost-effective risk mitigation strategies - Evaluate and measure operational program to close compliance gaps and continually improve programs and services - Manage activity and communication plan with the creation of meaningful awareness campaigns - Maintain a robust Horizon Scanning program and share key messages with the business - Support incident management to minimise the risk of regulatory challenge - Establish, maintain, and monitor escalation procedures - Work out of hours to support incident management - Manage a team to deliver compliance on Product Safety matters **Requirements:** - Excellent knowledge of product safety legislation for both the UK and the EU - Practical experience of incident management including product withdrawals and recalls - Experience of working in a similar role across a large national retailer - Ability to engage across multiple channels and work effectively and collaboratively across different teams - Ability to deliver accurately and at pace in a complex and ever-changing environment - Excellent business partnering, written, and verbal communication skills - Degree of autonomy and ‘can do’ attitude - Able to travel to sites as required **Benefits:** - Competitive salary - Discretionary company bonus - Company pension up to 7% matched - Company Car allowance of £5,700 - 15% colleague discount in store and online - Free access to wellbeing services - Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - Excellent parental leave policies ## Skills ### Required - UK/EU REACH Regulations - General Product Safety Directive - Toy Safety - PPE - Cosmetics - Microsoft Suite --- Source: [Apply at asda.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com](https://asda.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AsdaJobs/job/Asda-House/Product-Safety-Manager_R-108194?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)