Compliance Manager

Compliance Manager
Cannock, Staffordshire

Permanent | Full-Time | Monday – Friday, 7:30am – 4:30pm

Excellent Salary Package | Fantastic Benefits - 25 days’ holiday + Bank Holidays (increasing with service), paid lunches, pension scheme, annual flu jabs, company bonus scheme, annual events, ongoing progression, health & wellbeing checks.


We’re recruiting for a Compliance Manager to join a successful and growing business in Cannock. This is a key role within the organisation, responsible for ensuring the business remains compliant across its Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety and regulatory requirements, while continually improving its systems and processes.


The Role

• Managing and maintaining key industry accreditations, including ISO, ISO 14001, BRCGS, FSC, EcoVadis and FORS.
• Supporting the business on its journey towards carbon neutrality.
• Maintaining the central Quality Management System (QMS) and compliance database.
• Ensuring Environmental, Compliance, Quality, Health & Safety and related documentation is accurate, current and accessible.
• Keeping up to date with relevant legislation, regulations, industry standards and best practice.
• Ensuring ongoing compliance with packaging legislation, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations (PPWR) and Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT).
• Calculating and managing EPR returns data.
• Planning and managing internal and external audit programmes, ensuring actions are followed through to completion.
• Supporting the business with ESG and CSR requirements.
• Working with the SMT, Finance and HR teams to ensure company policies and procedures remain relevant and compliant.
• Maintaining the staff training matrix and identifying training requirements.
• Managing the company’s insurance portfolio and acting as the main point of contact for insurance claims.
• Supporting Health & Safety activities and helping ensure the business provides a safe working environment.
• Supporting Sales and Procurement with customer and supplier compliance questionnaires and tender submissions.
• Identifying opportunities for continual improvement across compliance processes and systems.
• Managing issues and crises when they arise, including root cause analysis and corrective action to prevent recurrence.

Essential experience:

• Strong, demonstrable experience with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, or BRCGS Food-Grade Packaging standards.
• Candidates with strong experience in either ISO or BRCGS will be considered, as the other system can be learned.
• Experience calculating and managing EPR returns data.
• Experience managing internal and third-party audit programmes.
• A strong understanding of regulatory compliance and how to monitor and maintain compliance with changing legislation.
• Experience identifying training requirements and implementing effective training programmes.
• Previous experience of managing a process, function or team.
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail.
• The confidence to work with senior stakeholders and colleagues across multiple departments.
• A proactive approach to identifying risks, solving problems and continually improving processes.

Desirable Experience

• Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations (PPWR)
• Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT), including calculating and submitting data
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) systems
• PEFC certification
• Working within a warehouse, distribution or manufacturing environment
• ESG, CSR or sustainability initiatives

Job Ref: HP449


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