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.

Morrisons is a place where you can be yourself, feel valued, and have a true sense of belonging. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from people from all walks of life, as we strive to build a workforce that truly represents the communities we serve.

We are also a Disability Confident Employer, which means we're committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know when you submit your application and support will be provided wherever it’s required.

Starting as a Bradford market stall, we are proud to be the Yorkshire retailer now serving over 11 million customers nationwide each week. We’re unique: both foodmakers and shopkeepers, processing our own fresh produce and preparing more food in-store than any other supermarket.

We offer real opportunities to build your career across our stores, sites, and support teams. We’re a down-to-earth team that values hard work, reliability, and great customer service. If you’re friendly, dependable, and ready to get stuck in, there’s always More to Morrisons for you.