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15th May 2025

Head of Food Safety

Join LEON as our Head of Food Safety and Technical.

In this role, you’ll shape the safety and quality of our food for our UK grocery business and Restaurants in the UK and Europe. You'll confidently lead a talented team to develop and deliver LEON’s safety systems and embed a culture of continuous improvement, best practice and resilience.

If you're an experienced technical and food safety expert with an appetite for fast-paced, values-driven work —we want to hear from you!

About LEON…

At LEON we want to make it easy for everyone to eat and live well. We serve naturally fast food that’s good for you and kind to the planet. Where does it say in the rule book that fast food can’t be good for you?

Duties & Responsibilities:

Safety & Compliance

  • Develop and lead LEON’s company-wide food safety, quality, and compliance standards.
  • Set safety and technical policies and procedures, ensuring they are future-fit, scalable, and aligned with regulatory and industry best practice.
  • Be the key point of contact for external regulators, Primary Authority, auditors, and legal food safety matters.

Restaurant Food Safety

  • Oversee food safety, hygiene, health & safety, pest control, and allergen processes across all LEON restaurants.
  • Manage and refine our internal and external audit programmes, embedding accountability and action plans at every level.
  • Champion food safety culture across restaurants, supporting General Managers and Ops teams with training, insights, and coaching.

Supplier and Specification Management

  • Collaborate with NPD and Operations to ensure new products, ingredients, and processes are safe and deliverable by the operations team.
  • Lead supplier technical approval and ongoing compliance, including onboarding, auditing, and performance management.
  • Own the technical integrity of product specifications — ensuring our food meets all safety, nutritional, allergen, and customer-facing requirements.
  • Build and maintain strong, values-led relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors.
  • Oversee technical governance for LEON’s grocery product range — including food safety, packaging compliance, labelling, claims, and retailer standards.
  • Act as the gatekeeper for all food and non-food products, ensuring robust technical approval processes are in place from development to launch and then maintained.

Candidate Requirements:

  • At least 5 years of senior-level experience in a food safety, technical, or quality assurance role.
  • A strong background in food service, retail, or manufacturing.
  • Expertise in HACCP, QMS, GFSI, allergen management, food safety legislation, and ethical sourcing.
  • Lead Auditor certification (or equivalent) and hands-on auditing experience.
  • Strong people management and development skills.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills.
  • Strong systems, reporting, and data analysis capabilities.
  • Passion for food and sustainability.
  • Flexibility to travel across the UK and Europe as required.

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