Process Specialist

Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.

Join Holland & Barrett's Burton Manufacturing site as a Process Specialist, where you'll ensure new products and ongoing enhancements move smoothly from development into full-scale production. Reporting to the Quality & Product Safety Manager, you will focus on maintaining process capability, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. You'll work closely with product development, production, and packaging teams to introduce equipment, lead trials, and support continuous improvement—helping us uphold high standards and drive innovation across our manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of New Product Developments (NPD) into full-scale manufacturing, ensuring smooth handovers and production readiness.
• Manage Existing Product Development (EPD) refinements, maintaining quality, efficiency, and compliance with regulatory and customer specifications.
• Oversee Holland & Barrett and Co-Pack production processes, ensuring all activities adhere to established standards.
• Monitor and enhance process capability, driving consistency in output quality and minimising variability.
• Identify opportunities to improve process efficiency and reduce waste, including evaluating new raw materials for quality and consistency gains.
• Plan, execute, document, and analyse product and equipment trials to validate feasibility, scalability, and alignment with technical requirements.
• Oversee commissioning of new machinery and equipment—ensuring operational, hygiene, and quality standards are met, and supporting the development of relevant documentation.
• Collaborate on packaging innovation projects to enhance sustainability, efficiency, and consumer appeal.
  
  

Location: This role is based onsite at our Distribution Centre in Burton, Monday - Friday

• Significant experience in food manufacturing process management, including NPD integration and process optimisation.
• Proven track record with process audits, equipment trials, and commissioning activities.
• Solid knowledge of food safety regulations (HACCP, BRC) and familiarity with regulatory registration requirements (OPSS).
• Strong analytical skills to interpret trial outcomes, audit results, and drive continuous improvement.
• Strategic thinker capable of bridging R&D and manufacturing operations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities—comfortable working with technical, production, and regulatory teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining compliance and efficiency.
• Demonstrates adaptability and a commitment to innovative solutions in process management.
  
  

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Pension company contribution
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
• And many more!
  
  

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.

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