Compliance Improvement Lead

Compliance Improvement Lead

Location: Lees of Scotland, Coatbridge
Shift: Mon – Fri

Are you ready to use your food safety and compliance expertise to make a practical difference? We’re looking for a Compliance Improvement Lead to join our Compliance team at Lees of Scotland in Coatbridge, part of Finsbury Food Group. Reporting to the Regional Compliance Lead, you’ll help strengthen food safety and quality arrangements so that sites meet legal requirements, Group standards and customer expectations.
Finsbury Food Group is a leading specialty bakery manufacturer, offering a wide range of bakery products and supplying frozen products to the foodservice sector. We’re focused on raising quality and efficiency standards and building long-term customer relationships.
Working within broader QHSE Compliance, this role will be heavily focussed on Food Safety Compliance. It will be focused on monitoring, verifying and continually improving site food safety systems, standards and regulatory compliance. You’ll support the Regional Compliance Lead with the development and deployment of food safety and quality arrangements across the regions, helping reduce risk, strengthen assurance and improve performance.
You’ll work closely with the HSE Compliance Improvement Lead to align shared compliance activities. Development and training opportunities will support dual-skilling, allowing you to broaden your expertise and build resilience and flexibility across the wider compliance function.

This is what you’ll actually do!

You’ll support the Business and Site Compliance strategies, ensuring alignment with Group standards, legal requirements and customer expectations. You’ll keep Food Safety and Quality Management System documents current, controlled and fit for purpose, and help develop procedures, guidance and training materials.
Keep the Regional Compliance Lead informed of significant issues, emerging risks, audit outcomes and action status, and confirm competent persons and system owners are identified for key activities.
You’ll collate, review and report food safety and compliance KPIs, highlighting trends, gaps and areas requiring action. You’ll communicate performance and agreed actions to the wider site team through Tier meetings, escalating concerns and tracking actions through to completion.
Key responsibilities include verifying the effectiveness of HACCP studies and allergen controls, supporting TACCP and VACCP reviews, and tracking actions to closure. Changes to products, processes, equipment, ingredients or layouts must also be assessed through the site change management / HACCP process.
Working with Site Technical and Leadership teams, you’ll verify the internal audit programme against the Food Safety and Quality Management System, customer Codes of Practice and relevant standards. This includes supporting customer, third-party and regulatory audits, tracking findings to closure and escalating overdue actions or recurring issues.
Support food safety incident investigations, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are assigned, tracked and verified for effectiveness. Escalate significant incidents, risks and repeated non-conformances to the Regional Compliance Lead.
• Provide practical guidance, training and coaching to help site teams embed food safety standards and controls.
• Promote a food safety culture built on ownership, timely reporting, action follow-up and shared learning.
• Use KPI trends, audit findings and incident data to prioritise improvements and targeted corrective action.
This role is primarily site-based, with occasional travel for audits, meetings and wider compliance initiatives.

Ideally this is you!
Essential:
• Food Science related degree or equivalent relevant food manufacturing experience.
• Strong food safety compliance experience within manufacturing, ideally in bakery or chilled / ambient food production.
• BRCGS or retailer standard audit experience.
• Food Safety Level 3 or equivalent.
• HACCP Level 3 or equivalent.
• Internal auditor experience.
• Good understanding of food safety legislation, customer requirements and site standards.
• Strong facilitation, organisation and project coordination skills, with attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels.
• Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Current full driving licence.

Desirable:
• Lead auditor training or experience.
• Allergen management training or practical validation experience.
• VACCP and TACCP training.
• Experience of food safety KPI reporting, trend analysis and action tracking systems.
• Experience creating or revising food safety procedures, forms or guidance documents.
• Experience or knowledge of broader QHSE compliance

What’s in it for you

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, giving you quality time with your new arrival.
• An enhanced pension scheme.
• Death in service benefit.
• A free Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• Retail discounts through our Benefits Hub.
• Employee Recognition Awards and extensive learning and development opportunities, including sponsored professional memberships and our in-house development course.
• The opportunity to be part of a growing organisation. Visit our LinkedIn page to learn more.

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK, and our people are at the heart of that ambition. We value every member of our team and support their development so they can achieve their personal goals while helping our business grow. If you’re ready to bring your food safety expertise to Lees of Scotland and help us keep improving, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch to find out more.