Product Safety Manager

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As part of the Product Safety Manger, you will be supporting the business in selling safe and legal non-food products; including management and implementation of all legally required due diligence. As a fast-paced organisation with over 1000 sites, Asda’s Product Safety programme is continually evolving.

Oversee development and implementation of the Product Safety Compliance programme 

• Deliver a programme that mitigates risk and ensures compliance to relevant legislation for our non-food business; George, Non-edible Grocery and General Merchandise 

• Provide expert guidance on potential withdrawal or recall issues based upon a 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 organizations  

• Assist with liaisons on compliance agreements with regulators including Primary Authority 

• Attending industry meetings to develop Product Safety programme

• Manage our 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, such as REACH, UKTR and EUDR due diligence 

• Provide direction in the implementation and execution of mitigation programs, data systems, and services 

• Evaluate and measure operational program to close compliance gaps and continually improve programs and services. Proficient use of Microsoft Suite with ability to analyse data and present findings 

• Manage activity and communication plan with the creation of meaningful awareness campaigns 

Management of incidents 

• Maintain a robust Horizon Scanning program and share key messages with the business 

• Support on incident management to minimise the risk of regulatory challenge  

• Establishment, maintenance and monitoring of escalation procedures 

• Support with working with legal team on mitigation in relation to serious legal challenge 

• Work out of hours to support incident management 

People 

• Manage a team to deliver compliance on Product Safety matters 

“Let's find out about you.” 

• The role requires excellent knowledge of product safety legislation for both the UK and the EU including; UK/EU REACH Regulations, UK Timber/EU Deforestation Regulations and General Product Safety Directive. Good understanding of the due diligence processes required to meet these Regulations. Knowledge on additional Product Safety legislation (Toy Safety, PPE, Cosmetics etc) is desired

• Practical experience of incident management including product withdrawals and recalls
• 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

• Excellent business partnering, written and verbal communication skills are essential

• This role requires a degree of autonomy and ‘can do’

• Able to travel to sites as required as part of projects/key workstreams

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

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 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