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