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"Find your Role"

As a fast-paced organisation with over 1000 sites, Asda’s product safety programme is continually evolving. The business has ambitious plans for growth and embraces new ideas and innovation to support operational teams to succeed. As part of the Product Safety team, you will be supporting the business to effectively manage requirements across all of our sites in conjunction with key business partners.

• Support Product Safety Managers to develop and implement product safety policy, process and operational ways of working for our non-food business; George, Non-edible Grocery and General Merchandise.

• Manage legal due diligence programmes for timber product and chemical product.

• Managing the horizon scanning programme:

• Track regulatory & market changes in the UK & EU.

• Prepare and deliver regular training and insight sessions to business partners ensuring they are engaged, and requirements are understood.

• Support for ad-hoc/seasonal projects as directed.

• Tracking, monitoring and reporting on escalated & serious customer incidents taking ownership end-to-end.

• Utilising a Risk Assessment tool to support potential product issues and product withdrawals & recalls.

• External liaison with suppliers, including testing laboratories, external regulators (including Primary Authority), and suppliers

• Coordination of compliance notifications as directed by Product Safety Manager

• Prepare, write and present presentations / reports (e.g. supplier adherence to standards)

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

• Manage the Product Safety and Product Withdrawal Inbox to support key stakeholders and business partners with general queries, enforcement contacts, complaints and the wider team with any admin tasks. Aligned to this, the ability to create and follow processes accurately to ensure consistency within the team.

• Ability to manage action plans, reporting and site queries.

• Proficient use of Microsoft Suite with ability to analyse data and present findings.

• Preferred knowledge of SAP to enable support with financial admin and queries.

“Let's find out about you.”

• The role requires good general product safety, or non-food regulatory experience in a similar role.

• Experience of working in a similar role is essential.

• 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 whilst being open, honest, and accessible.

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

• This role requires a degree of autonomy and ‘can do’, but will be guided by the Product Safety Manager, and the Food Safety and Product Safety Senior Manager in the team.

• 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
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 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