Total 3 job vacancies by Booker Group

This is a new and exciting role reporting into the Head of Safety working nationally across the Booker Group.

In this role you will provide strategic direction to the business in the areas of food and health and safety compliance. You will lead the Food & Safety Compliance teams in the delivery of competent advice to enable the company to meet relevant legal requirements; drive improvements in standards; mitigate risk; and promote a positive safety culture.

You will support the senior leadership team in setting companywide objectives and play an important role in the governance and monitoring of safety, providing accurate updates on performance.

The role spans all parts of the Booker Group, and you will have responsibility through your teams to continuously review standards by analysing data and reviewing the outputs from third parties.

You will work closely with Tesco Group Safety teams to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in Booker policies and procedures and to ensure compliance with Group Safety Standards, helping to make sure “Everyone, Every Day, Home Safely” is achieved.

By providing leadership and team management to the Food and Safety teams across the Booker Group you will help to develop and review training, policies and procedures that equip sites with the tools that they need to achieve compliance and drive standards.

You will take the lead in dealing with relevant enforcement activities and challenges as well as dealing with outputs of third party suppliers, including audits, pest management and fire risk assessment

Through Business Partnering senior leaders across the Group you will agree and set objectives which deliver quantifiable improvements on the areas under your remit while overseeing the continuous review of policies and procedures against Tesco Group Safety Blueprint and Safety Standards.

Through the teams that you manage, you will ensure that the business is informed of and prepares for forthcoming changes in legislation or best practice which will have an impact.

You will be able to demonstrate experience in managing teams and Business Partnering across a wide network and with your experience from previous roles with health and safety responsibilities be able to build strong relationships to effectively collaborate, influence and deliver through others.

In the role you will be able to develop strategy and objective setting, driving continuous improvement. With the ability to think on your feet and make informed decisions at short notice you will be self-motivated and be able to organise your own work schedule to deliver on time.

Good written and verbal communication skills are key to the role and you will possess a NEBOSH level 7 qualification or equivalent as well as Food Safety Level 4.

It is a National role that will require plenty of travelling and we will provide a car allowance or travel allowance.

The IS Team are currently seeking a QA Analyst to join the web project team. This role will cover key testing and QA activities associated with the projects as well as manage and conduct business and acceptance testing. The Test Analyst will be key to helping deliver quality assurance and associated testing activities for projects, relevant reporting, and defect management with collaborative supplier management. We are looking for someone with experience in Agile methodologies and working with the broader teams, 3rd parties and industry. The successful candidate will bring to the table a good mind for quality assurance and have an eye for detail.

• Produce and maintain test plan across the lifecycle of the projects for all aspects of Acceptance Testing.
• Working with Senior Analysts and other project team members to actively lead planned sprints/releases.
• Test Estimation (waterfall and agile methods) to ensure that the effort for testing on projects is accurately assembled and supervised.
• Development and maintenance of Customer Acceptance Test objectives matrices through the project and successful base-lining as part of project closure.
• Definition of Acceptance Test criteria and working with Business Stakeholders to sign off user test requirements and test acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on with test automation scripts in the following languages (one or several): Java (preferred) /C#/Python/JavaScript
• Good knowledge of agile methodologies and practices.
• Shown understanding of DevOps and CI/CD along with automation.
• Day to day management of tasks within Web project team and managing delivery of test results on behalf of the team.
• Work with 3rd parties and internal teams to build on automated testing.
• Be proactive and raise any delays in testing to IS Manager and Senior Analysts in a timely manner.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task and prioritise workload
• Demonstrate attention to detail and an ability to focus on quality of work
• Possess good analytical skills, be a fast thinker and a good decision maker
• Good understanding of web technologies like HTML, XML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript etc.
• Validated experience in eCommerce, web based applications and mobile apps.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, being able to communicate effectively and efficiently with colleagues, customers and suppliers.
• Detail orientated that is always reflected in documentation
• Proactively engaging with team members, open and clear approach and a hardworking teammate

• Experience with Automation Tools/Frameworks – Selenium, Cucumber, Quantum
• Experience with test management Tools – JIRA, Xray, Selenium Open Source
• Experience with continuous integration tools – GitHub, Azure DevOps
• Experience with analysis of requirements and crafting and supervising requirement coverage
• Background of working with 3rd Party Suppliers and Vendors
• Experience of implementing process improvement across the Software Development Lifecycle
• Knowledge and understanding of web site analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
• Experience of using system performance tools such as Datadog and Google Analytics
• Pro-actively initiates, develops and maintains effective working relationships with team members
• Proven track record to co-operate with a variety of people and achieve results
• A proven curiosity about picking up knowledge and working on a steep learning curve
• Proven experience of running large test programs, covering multiple parallel streams of work, to successful conclusions

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within our Quality Assurance department for a Technical Manager, in the Quality Standards & Data team. This role reports to one of our Technical Controllers

This role has four key aspects: provide technical support and manage the provision of technical data solutions to our foodservice and national account customers; manage the documented quality system, delivering an internal auditing programme; establish, manage and report on compliance monitoring activities, ensuring all product surveillance testing and supplier assessment programmes are maintained and are operating effectively; be aware of all food safety and regulatory aspects and be able to provide detailed support and project management across ad-hoc technical projects.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Manager who has in previous roles supported Technical teams with all aspects of food quality & safety management and legislation advice.

You will be responsible:

Coordinating technical product standards and policy updates, encompassing updated legislation requirements

Managing the documented quality system, ensuring appropriate updates are captured and trained out across the team

Maintenance of our technical and specification due-diligence portal (ORBC), ensuring glossaries and document libraries are kept updated and data entry is compliant with our requirements.

Monitoring both internal and supplier compliance against technical policies and standards

Ensuring effective CAPA programmes are in place and are closed out within agreed timeframes

Working closely with foodservice and national account customers to agree and implement workable technical data provision solutions

Supporting the wider technical and product teams in ensuring compliance with all appropriate policies and be part of the work team when any challenges may arise in these areas

Demonstratable experience of a similar role in food quality & safety with a focus on legislation

Strong knowledge of microbiological & chemical analysis and associated testing criteria across a wide range of ambient/chilled and frozen food categories.

An expert in food labelling requirements and have practical experience working with customer data/specification portals, which manage such product data exchange.

This role involves managing large pools of data, advanced Excel data management skills are essential.

You will have excellent communication and analytical skills, an eye for detail, a desire to ensure exacting product and operational standards are maintained, and a proven track record of forging strong and productive relationships at all levels.

You should have a keen interest in current and emerging food legislation and policy initiatives.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work without close supervision, prioritisation of your work and be comfortable communicating at all business levels to internal and external stakeholders.

You will need to possess a UK driving licence and your own car for this role and be comfortable travelling to group offices in the UK as well as suppliers and customers across the UK. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days on site and 2 days home-working after successful completion of training and probationary periods