Head of US Quality & Food Safety

Lead Huel’s US Quality & Food Safety strategy, building a high-performing team, raising standards across our supply network and ensuring every product delivers on safety, quality and consistency.

As Head of US Quality & Food Safety, you’ll be accountable for driving our US QFS strategic plan across a complex, international manufacturing base (US/Canada). You’ll play a critical role in protecting our brand and our customers, while enabling Huel to scale safely across the region. This is a remote role, but we’re looking for someone who is based locally in Utah and can easily commute into Salt Lake City to meet regularly with the team. Here's a glimpse of what you can expect:

* Lead our US Quality & Food Safety (QFS) function, taking overall accountability for food safety and quality across all Huel products and sites, including raw materials and co-manufacturing (RTD, Powders, Hot & Savoury and other categories).

* Lead, coach and develop a high-performing US team of three direct reports (2 US Technical Managers and an Ingredient Quality Manager), providing clear direction, building capability and ensuring strong ownership across the team.

* Define and drive our US QFS strategy, delivering 'right first time' products and an outstanding consumer experience, while setting CPMU reduction targets and driving continuous improvement across all sites.

* Ensure compliance with US food safety regulations and standards (SQF, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, FDA, FSMA and cGMPs), owning and continually improving our Food Safety & Quality Management Systems (HACCP, VACCP, TACCP and GFSI standards).

* Lead regulatory and food safety risk assessments for contaminants, including heavy metals, pesticide residues and other chemical hazards, translating US regulatory requirements into effective risk-management and compliance actions.

* Oversee our US raw material suppliers and co-manufacturers, ensuring ingredients and products are safe, compliant and consistently meet Huel's standards, while working with HQ to establish robust material onboarding processes and building a resilient supply network.

* Take ownership of our end-to-end testing agenda for ingredients and finished products, ensuring timely analysis, monitoring trends and driving investigations and corrective actions where needed.

* Be the key escalation point for US food safety incidents and quality crises, leading decisive responses, clear stakeholder communication and escalation to the Technical Director and SLT when required.