More about the role
We’re looking for a passionate, customer-focused Quality Assurance Analyst to join our Produce & Horticulture team. In this field-based role, you’ll ensure that all Fresh Produce, Horticulture, Meat, Fish, Poultry, and Chilled products accepted into our Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs) consistently meet specification through targeted, systemised inspections.
You’ll work with a UK-wide team of Quality Assurance inspectors, taking action when non-conformities arise and championing a culture of quality across logistics sites. By delivering accurate, timely quality data and collaborating across the end-to-end supply chain, you’ll protect product safety, reduce waste, and safeguard quality for our customers.
What You’ll Do
As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you’ll:
- Work with a team of Quality Assurance inspectors across UK logistics sites, ensuring strict adherence to inspection schedules and processes.
- Oversee Food Experts inspection reporting, ensuring clear, high-quality, and timely data is shared across daily, weekly, and period reporting cycles.
- Inspect incoming product against specifications to protect customer satisfaction and availability, setting up temporary specifications when appropriate.
- Support the Morrisons Quality Check programme, running seasonal product assessments and driving continuous quality improvements.
- Champion a quality culture within depots by coaching handling and picking standards and challenging practices that could impact product quality.
- Handle product withdrawals and recalls with urgency, managing supplier and store visits (announced and unannounced), and hosting depot visits.
- Provide technical expertise to help reduce waste, improve product availability, and support central technical trials and projects.
Key Relationships
You’ll work closely with:
- Internal QA Teams and At-Source Technical Teams
- Produce and Supplier Technical Managers
- Produce & Horticulture Buyers
- RDC Operations and Leadership Teams
- External Growers, Suppliers, the Rural Payments Agency, and SGS
More About You
You’ll be a resilient, self-motivated quality professional with a deep passion for fresh food, excellent leadership capabilities, and a customer-first mindset
You’ll have:
- Proven capability in working with a remote, geographically dispersed team across the UK.
- A minimum of 2 years' Quality Assurance experience working directly with fresh food categories.
- Strong knowledge of fresh produce, horticulture, or end-to-end supply chain operations (farm to store).
- Excellent communication, numerical, and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge operational practices constructively.
- The resilience to remain calm under pressure and make sound, fast-paced technical decisions.
- A full UK driving licence and flexibility for travel
More about our perks
In return for all your hard work, you will receive:
- 15% discount in store from the day you join us
- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
- Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
- ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
- Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.
We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of quality assurance experience working directly with fresh food categories
- Knowledge of fresh produce, horticulture, or end-to-end farm-to-store supply chain operations
- Experience working with a remote, geographically dispersed team across the UK
- Excellent communication, numerical, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to challenge operational practices constructively
- Ability to remain calm under pressure and make fast-paced technical decisions
- Full UK driving licence
- Flexibility to travel
What We Do
Morrisons is a UK-based supermarket and integrated food business serving customers through a nationwide network of stores and online delivery channels. Its operations span grocery retail, wholesale, distribution, and food manufacturing. The company sells a broad range of fresh and packaged foods and emphasizes vertical integration, sourcing and processing about half of its fresh food itself, with a purpose of making good food affordable for everyone.
