Quality Assessment Manager - Regional

Leading a regional Quality team as well as build and deliver the QA strategy. Your job is to ensure that the very best quality product reaches our customers, by building capability, consistency and innovation across a broad team.

This role covers the Eastern Region, which includes the following depots: Peterborough, Dagenham and Snodland.

• Managing & mentoring a geographically diverse team of c.10+ people across multiple sites to deliver their role & department KPI's, with quality at the heart of everything we do.
• Developing capability & leading a hard working team, supporting & giving them the opportunities to be their best.
• Managing the People routines and processes for the team
• Working closely with peripheral divisions to identify and build cross divisional plans to drive quality end to end
• Creating and delivering the Quality Assessment strategy, ensuring it is used to drive continuous improvements in product quality
• Translating the Quality Assessment strategy into the operating model & ensuring it’s effective delivery through consistent approach & correct working practices.
• Identifying innovation opportunities and converting them into change programmes across all Quality Assessment teams.
• Building great relationships with all 'end to end' stakeholders, ensuring quality improvement efficiency.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct & always acting with integrity and due diligence.

Operational:

• Exceptional people & engagement skills.
• Excellent written & verbal communication.
• Change Management skills.
• Cross divisional influencing skills
• Innovative & creative thinking.
• Planning & organisation skills.
• Mobile, ability to drive.

Experience:

• Excellent leadership & people management.
• Excellent cross functional working experience.
• Extensive knowledge of end to end supply chains.
• Extensive product, people & operational experience.
• Quality Assessment / Assurance background

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays).
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay.
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues.

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.