Company: Nestlé

Location: East London

Qualification: Degree/Diploma in Food Technologist/Natural sciences degree

Experience: Minimum 5 years’ experience in QA

Closing date: 07 April 2026

Position Summary

Nestlé has over 308 000 employees worldwide. More than being the world’s number one food and beverage brand, we’ve successfully launched, and sustained, hundreds of thousands of careers. We’re now looking for a Compliance Specialist to join our team at East London.

Main Purpose

Assess the level of compliance and determine the status of compliance on an on-going basis towards Food Safety, Legal and Nestle Quality requirements. Demonstrate the compliance status with and through a Document Management System. Propose modifications and updates to the FQAM. In this position the jobholder is overall accountable for Compliance and Good laboratory practice status of the factory laoratory. Update internal documents such as QMS as per the updates received from regulatory affairs. Perform a complete gap assessment of all products for regulatory requirements and our practices once every year with the help of regulatory affairs.

A day in the life of a Compliance Specialist:

Leadership

• Knows, by product group, all compliance requirements (Legal, Food safety and Nestle norms)
• Knows, by product group the principles of analytical methods applied for all parameters monitored by the factory laboratory
• Ensures, that monitoring schemes include all up- to-date compliance requirements and are implemented.

• Ensures that monitoring schemes include all up-to-date compliance requirements and are implemented.
• Knows, by product group, all compliance requirements (Legal, Food safety and Nestle norms).
• Reviews monitoring data for finished products, ingredients, and packaging materials against these requirements.
• Alerts the FQAM on discrepancies.
• Updates compliance requirements based on change management.
• Ensures the launch of new products, which are compliant with norms.
• Documents compliance requirements (ISO standards) and results.

Technical Assistance

• Factory QA: Overall supervisor of Monitoring plan.
• Application groups; Provides the relevant Application groups with compliance related requirements, Information, and data.
• Analytical facilities: Provides the analytical facilities, internal and external with up-to-date compliance requirements and follows up to receive results in a timely manner.
• Supply Chain & Export: Provides compliance requirements to producing and receiving markets and ensures the IMS product briefs are completed on technical inputs.
• Regulatory Affairs: Solicit for updates and provides data upon request through the FQAM.

What will make you successful?

• Degree/Diploma in Food Technologist/Natural Sciences degree

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in QA
• In-depth knowledge of ISO 22000 & ISO 17025 
• SAP Knowledge 
• Lead to Win
• Compete and Connect Externally
• Collaborate Internally