Victoria DuPont

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Huddersfield
United Kingdom

Victoria has more than 37 years’ experience at both a Corporate and Technical level. Working within a variety of industries: - Retail, Textiles, Manufacturing, Storage & Distribution, Service, Contract Packing, Packaging, Consumer Products, and the Food Industry.

She is a strong business development and corporate Professional with a Post Graduate Diploma focused on Business Administration and Management from Leeds University Business School (FCMI), and a second Post Graduate Degree in Export Management (MIEx Grad).

Victoria was awarded ‘BRCGS Professional of the Year Food safety Europe 2021’ acknowledging her professional accomplishments.
Victoria worked hard over 23 years while founding and operating her own Contract Packing company to gain Food Safety and Technical accreditations with many high street retailers: - Asda, Hallmark, Marks & Spencer’s, Morrison’s, Next, Sainsburys’ and Tesco. In addition, servicing many blue-chip companies, ie Lever Brothers, Birds Eye, Waitrose, Aldi, Kimberley Clarke, L’Oréal and many more.

Since 2015 Victoria has worked with companies globally, in meeting their systems requirements of BRCGS, GFSI Standards, Risk Assessment, Root Cause Analysis, Validation & Verification, Food Fraud Vulnerability and HACCP. In 2021 attaining BRCGS Consultancy Registration for the Food and Storage & Distribution standards.

Victoria is certified by IRCA as a Social Systems (SS) Lead Auditor and APSCA CSCA, as a result of globally implementing system compliance and consultancy services for BSCI, SEDEX, SMETA, SA8000, ISO26000 and management systems. In addition, validated in January 2023 as a BRCGS Packaging Auditor and in March 2024 as a BRCGS Storage & Distribution Auditor.

During 2024 Victoria held a Global Technical Scheme Lead role for SEDEX/SMETA and continues to work on CSR and Sustainability as a Strategic Lead position.