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Quality Technologist
Hybrid in Asda House·Full-time·Added today (last checked 3 Nov)
Our summary
- Work mode
- Hybrid, Asda House
- Contract
- Full-time
- Pension
- Pension matched up to 7%
Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience within food quality, technical, product development, manufacturing or supplier quality environments.
- Strong understanding of product quality systems, specifications and supplier compliance requirements.
- Experience investigating quality issues and supporting corrective action programmes.
- Ability to interpret data and translate findings into meaningful actions.
- Experience working with customer complaints, quality metrics or consumer feedback.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational and project management abilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and reporting tools.
- Degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
Nice to have
- Retail, FMCG or Own Brand experience.
- Experience conducting sensory assessments, consistency panels or benchmarking reviews.
- Knowledge of supplier quality management systems such as QAS.
- Experience using customer insight and online review platforms.
- Exposure to supplier audits and factory visits.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
Competitive salary plus benefits.
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 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
The role
Are you passionate about food quality and driven by delivering great products for customers?
We're looking for a Quality Technologist to join our Own Brand team and play a key role in driving product quality improvements across our range. Working closely with suppliers, Product Developers, Buyers and Technical teams, you'll help ensure our products consistently meet specification, exceed customer expectations and deliver outstanding quality.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with quality, technical, product development or manufacturing experience who thrives on data analysis, problem solving and influencing positive change across the supply chain.
What you'll do
As a Quality Technologist, you'll support the delivery of our quality strategy through supplier engagement, customer insight analysis, benchmarking activities and quality improvement programmes.
- Monitoring product quality performance and identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
- Identify and Investigate quality issues supporting root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Supporting quality management processes across Own Brand categories.
- Championing quality standards throughout the product lifecycle.
- Reviewing supplier quality performance and compliance against specifications.
- Working with suppliers to resolve quality concerns and drive continuous improvement.
- Supporting supplier reviews, quality forums and performance scorecards.
- Participating in supplier visits and audits where required.
- Analysing customer complaints, online reviews and quality metrics.
- Identifying recurring issues and supporting improvement plans.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of corrective actions and quality enhancements.
- Using data-driven insights to influence product improvements.
- Conducting competitor benchmarking across Own Brand categories.
- Organising and facilitating consistency panels and product reviews.
- Supporting benchmarking sessions and product evaluation activities.
- Reporting findings and driving actions to improve product performance.
- Coordinating product improvement plans from identification through to completion.
- Working cross-functionally with Product Developers, Buyers and suppliers.
- Tracking progress, managing timelines and escalating risks where required.
- Reporting progress through quality governance forums.
- Managing quality trackers, reporting tools and improvement plans.
- Analysing performance data to identify trends and opportunities.
- Preparing reports and presentations for stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Ensuring accurate and timely quality reporting.
How you'll work
37.5
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.
Job Title
Quality Technologist
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Category
Quality Assurance - SF
Closing Date
19 November 2026
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to make a real impact on products enjoyed by millions of customers. You'll work collaboratively with suppliers and cross-functional teams to drive quality improvements, influence product development and help shape the future of our Own Brand offering.
If you're passionate about food quality, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us deliver better products for our customers, every day.
Hiring process
Apply online
Online assessments
Online test · Not every role
An online assessment for certain roles, to help you understand more about the role.
Interview and assessment
With a hiring manager
Getting to know how you align with Asda's values and the key skills for the role, in person or virtual depending on location and timescales; some roles go to an assessment centre, in one or two stages.
Offer or feedback · With a hiring manager
- Expect an update on your application within 10 days.
- Asda aims to interview 1-2 weeks after the closing date.
- Asda aims to give feedback within one week of your interview.
About Asda
Asda is a large retail business that describes itself as "Reimagining Retail", operating in the retail industry with a validated focus on retail, technology and head-office roles.
According to its careers site, it is "a big business" offering far more role types than the familiar customer-facing ones, and it says that "because our business is changing we're creating new roles all the time".
- Industry
- Retail, technology and head-office roles
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