Head of Quality Assurance and Control Essex area Full time permanent About the role Develop, direct, and execute quality assurance and quality control programs and formulate across our products, supply chain, and operations to support the growth of the business and delivery of highest quality products. Lead on quality issues, managing the non-conformance process from identification through to resolution with effective management of stakeholders and communication. Duties and Responsibilities Ensuring a robust and phase appropriate Quality Management System (QMS) is in place to facilitate the design, development, and manufacturing of products. Collaborate with the Procurement and RandD/Product Management teams through design and supply to ensure quality and consistency across our products and supply chain, carrying out in-house quality assurance checks on pre-production samples. Determine, define, and agree quality test procedures, standards and specifications to minimise design and functionality quality issues. Working with the Compliance Manager and RandD to ensure all aspects relating to compliance for our own products are managed. Ensuring the presence of adequate Supplier Technical Agreements that foster and set up good communication with supplier Quality Departments to ensure agreement and clarity on service level expectations and responsibilities over quality standards. Auditing suppliers on quality of product, including onsite and offsite auditing. Monitoring and ..... full job details .....