Are you an experienced Quality professional looking for an opportunity to lead, influence, and drive continuous improvement within a highly regulated scientific environment?
This role offers the chance to take ownership of a well-established Quality Management System, lead a dedicated quality team, and play a key role in maintaining industry-leading standards across laboratory operations. You'll have the autonomy to shape quality initiatives, guide strategic improvements, and work alongside technical experts to deliver excellence every day.
For professionals who enjoy combining leadership, problem-solving, compliance expertise, and continuous improvement, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact while continuing to develop your career.
What You'll Gain

• The opportunity to lead and develop an experienced quality team.
• Ownership of quality strategy and key quality processes across an accredited laboratory environment.
• A highly visible role with significant influence across operational and technical functions.
• Exposure to regulatory, accreditation, and customer-driven quality standards.
• The chance to drive continuous improvement initiatives that directly impact operational performance and customer outcomes.
• Opportunities to strengthen your leadership, audit, compliance, and project management expertise.
• A dynamic scientific environment where quality is central to success.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and mentoring the Quality team while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Taking ownership of the Quality Management System and ensuring accreditation and regulatory requirements are consistently maintained.
• Managing the electronic Quality Management System and using data-driven insights to support performance improvement.
• Leading investigations, corrective actions, and preventive actions arising from audits, customer feedback, laboratory investigations, and non-conformances.
• Acting as the lead contact for external audits and ensuring successful delivery of audit outcomes.
• Planning and conducting internal audits that identify opportunities for improvement and strengthen compliance.
• Driving change control and risk assessment programmes across the site.
• Leading annual Quality Management Reviews and ensuring improvement actions are successfully implemented.
• Collaborating with laboratory teams to maintain equipment compliance, calibration schedules, and quality records.
• Providing quality insights and performance reporting to senior stakeholders.

What Will Help You Succeed

• A degree in a scientific discipline coupled with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive experience managing Quality Management Systems within a laboratory, technical, or scientific environment.
• Detailed knowledge of ISO 17025 accreditation requirements and quality assurance best practice.
• Experience leading internal audits, managing non-conformances, and implementing improvements.
• The ability to drive change, influence stakeholders, and champion quality standards across multiple teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience within food, microbiology, chemistry, or related laboratory environments would be highly advantageous.

Who You'll Be
You'll be someone who thrives on setting high standards, solving complex challenges, and creating an environment where quality is embedded in everything people do. You're equally comfortable leading a team, managing audits, influencing colleagues, and driving improvements that deliver lasting results.
Most importantly, you're looking for a role where your expertise, leadership, and commitment to quality will have a genuine and measurable impact.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.