Business Unit: Nestle UK& I

Location: York, North Yorkshire

Job Title: Quality Specialist

Salary Circa £30,000 Depending on Experience plus companywide benefits.

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• 2 paid volunteering days
• A focus on personal development and growth

Position Summary

The Operations Quality Specialist within Market Quality plays a vital role in supporting the day-to-day effectiveness of the Market Quality team while driving engagement, capability, and continuous improvement across the UK & Ireland business.

This role is a fantastic opportunity with the end goal being a critical team member in one of our Factory locations, this role needs flexibility and mobility.

The role combines operational quality support, cross-functional collaboration, complaint analysis and creative engagement, with a strong focus on delivering impactful digital and visual content, supporting Quality events and workshops, and acting as a flexible quality resource for factories when required. The role also supports knowledge sharing and quality culture through ownership of Ask Quality sessions and proactive engagement with stakeholders. 

This is a developmental role to enable us to succession plan into future factory Quality Management roles so we are looking for someone that is ambitious, forward thinking and has influencing skills.

Your Impact

Market Quality Operations

• Support the daily operational activities of the Market Quality team to ensure effective delivery of quality objectives.
• Act as a key point of contact for routine Market Quality queries, escalations, and coordination activities.
• Support Market Quality priorities through organisation, reporting, and continuous improvement activities.

Consumer Services & Complaint Management

• Work closely with Consumer Services to manage consumer complaints related to factory operations.
• Lead the monthly complaint review meetings, ensuring clear discussion of trends, risks, and actions.
• Maintain and develop Power BI dashboards for complaints data, ensuring data is accurate, current, and insightful.
• Analyse complaint data to identify trends, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities, escalating where appropriate.

Engagement, Communication & Creativity

• Design and deliver creative digital and visual content to support:
  • Market Quality workshops
  • Quality events and campaigns
  • Training, awareness, and engagement activities
• Translate quality data and messages into clear, engaging, and accessible materials for diverse audiences.
• Continuously explore innovative ways to improve quality communication and engagement across the market.

Factory Quality Support

• Provide hands-on support to factory Quality teams when required, which may include:
  • Assisting with quality or food safety projects and investigations
  • Gaining factory experience in line with development plan.

Key Interfaces

• Market Quality Team
• Factory Quality Managers and Quality Teams
• Manufacturing and Operations teams
• Central Quality / Functional teams
• Cross-functional stakeholders (Supply Chain, Operations, etc.)

Ingredients for Success

Technical & Quality Skills

• Previous factory experience desirable
• Ability to step into broader quality responsibilities (e.g. AQM cover) when required.

Communication & Creativity

• Strong creative and visual communication skills, with the ability to design engaging digital content.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.

Ways of Working

• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proactive, flexible, and adaptable to changing business needs.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across sites and functions.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for driving quality culture.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

Job advert closing date 1 June 2026  

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

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Right to work in the UK

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment.  We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.

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