Head of Quality, Compliance and Sustainability

Location: Rugby

Your new Company:

Häfele is an internationally trusted name supplying furniture fittings, ironmongery and hardware to the trade. We are recognised for our extensive range and quality of product as well as our expertise in the industry and excellent customer service. Häfele UK provides comprehensive customer support through our best-in-class sales and support team.

Your New Role:

This is an exciting new role at Häfele UK, offering a unique opportunity for an experienced professional to spearhead our Quality, Compliance and Sustainability functions. The role is pivotal in maintaining our integrated management systems and certified standards while driving sustainability initiatives. You will work closely with other colleagues across Group to share best practice, influence ways of working and drive through improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

- Quality Management:

 Lead the QA team to achieve best practice standards and support operational efficiency

 Continually drive improvements in quality across all business departments

 Maintain and exceed Häfele’s quality and service levels

- Compliance:

 Ensure company policies and procedures align with legislative, regulatory, and ethical standards

 Conduct internal audits, mitigate legal risks, and ensure compliance across operations

 Act as the subject matter expert on compliance-related topics and manage compliance projects

- Sustainability:

 Develop and implement strategies in collaboration with supply chain, category teams and supplier partners

 Ensure ethical and environmental standards meet and exceed regulatory requirements

 Engage with customers and the wider Häfele Group to align sustainability activities

Required Skills and Experience:

- Over 5 years of relevant experience

- Experience or working knowledge in a warehouse/production environment

- Experience in managing sustainability/compliance activity, projects and policy

- Ability to work independently and within a cross-functional team

- Strategic thinker with a proven track record of translating plans into action

- Strong ability to interpret regulatory requirements and communicate effectively within the business

- Experience in quality investigations and implementation of corrective actions

- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail

- Working knowledge of SAP systems and integrated management systems (ISO9001, ISO14001 etc)

- Internal auditor training for Environmental and Quality Management Systems is preferred

Why Join Us?

A Unique Opportunity:

This role offers the chance to significantly impact the business by enhancing quality, compliance and sustainability. You will be at the forefront of integrating these critical areas, ensuring that our product ranges are high-quality, sustainable and compliant. As the expert in this field, you will simplify procedures to ensure they are effective, easily adopted and continuously improved. The role will suit someone who is passionate about sustainability and environmental initiatives who has a comprehensive knowledge of sustainability practices and metrics.

Find out more about what Häfele UK on our social media channels and listen to what our colleagues have to say about our culture: https://youtu.be/HLZL27qFWJU?si=OclKv2XR9coFjLfP

What the Role Offers:

- Competitive Salary

- Annual Bonus

- Car Allowance

 Benefits Includin Holiday of 23 days’ basic + 8 bank holidays in a complete year, increasing to 28 days basic with our length of service programme

 Healthcare – Westfield Health Cashplan scheme, access to money back on dental, optical, consultation, therapy treatments and wellbeing treatments, hospital treatment insurance, Employee Assistance Programme and Life Insurance

 Discounts: Huge range of shopping and activity discounts available through Westfield Rewards

 Pension Scheme

 Life Insurance

 Stock Discounts

 Learning and Development opportunities

Working hours are 8:45am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday. Hybrid working option 3 days on site/2 days remote. A job profile is available on request. Please send an up to date CV and cover letter to the Recruitment Team at recruitment@hafele.co.uk. A full job description is available on request. We are committed to Equal Opportunities.

Shortlisting and interviews for this role will take place whilst the advert is still live; the vacancy will be closed as soon as the successful candidate is appointed. Applicants are therefore encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible.