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Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor

The senior IFS Food credential, delivered privately 1-on-1 and built around your site. For those who design, lead, and develop a certified IFS Food system, with a clear plan to reach or maintain certification.

The Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor course prepares you to design, lead, and own a certified IFS Food system: the IFS Food Standard across all requirement chapters. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your site and certification roadmap.

What You Will Be Able to Do

Listed in the TrustBite registry on completion

Every trainee who completes the course is added to the TrustBite registry of certified professionals, a public directory employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people. The certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

How It Works

What the Programme Covers

Eight modules, taught live and 1-on-1 in the order below. Every module is worked through on your own site, products and markets, so the examples are yours from the first session.

  1. 1

    IFS Food Version 8

    Structure, the six chapters, the 10 KO requirements, scoring and the star rating.

  2. 2

    Governance and commitment

    Policy, responsibilities, food safety culture and management review.

  3. 3

    The food safety and quality management system

    Documentation, records and the HACCP system as IFS audits it.

  4. 4

    Resource management

    Hygiene, training, facilities and personnel rules.

  5. 5

    Operational processes

    Specifications, supplier approval, traceability, allergens, food fraud and the product development process.

  6. 6

    Measurement, analysis and improvement

    Internal audits, inspections, calibration, complaints, recalls and corrective action.

  7. 7

    Food defence and the unannounced audit

    The food defence plan and the unannounced audit option.

  8. 8

    Gap assessment of your own site

    Your site against the standard, with an action plan.

The Regulations and Standards We Teach Against

  • IFS FoodIFS Food Version 8 and the IFS doctrine.
  • GFSI schemesGFSI benchmarking, so you understand how IFS relates to BRCGS, FSSC 22000 and SQF.
  • EURegulation (EC) 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) 852/2004, the law IFS expects an EU site to meet.
  • UKRetained food law and the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations.
  • USFDA FSMA Preventive Controls and USDA FSIS rules, for sites selling into the US.
  • CanadaThe Safe Food for Canadians Regulations.
  • Australia and New ZealandThe FSANZ Food Standards Code.

How We Tailor It to You

The whole course runs as a gap assessment of your own site. Every chapter is checked against what you have in place, so by the last session you hold a written action plan for certification.

Take This Course as Part of a Bundle

Combine this course with the rest of the IFS Food track, or with the specialist courses that matter most alongside it. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.

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IFS Food Complete Track

All three levels of the standard
  • Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor
  • Certified IFS Food Foundations
  • Certified IFS Food Internal Auditor
€1,325 €1,549.97
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IFS Food Manager + Specialist Pack

This course plus two matched specialisms
  • Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor
  • Certified Allergen Control Specialist
  • Certified Food Fraud Prevention Specialist
€1,272 €1,499.97
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    Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor Questions

    The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.

    Yes. Confi Food's Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. The major providers run this as a fixed-date group course. Confi Food builds it around your own site and system from the first session.

    The Confi Food Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor is €799.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with the rest of the IFS Food track, or with matched specialist courses, at a lower combined price. Comparable courses from large group-course providers are typically priced higher and delivered to a shared classroom on fixed dates.

    Yes. You can combine this course with any other Confi Food courses and the price adjusts automatically, with bigger savings the more you add. The extra courses come at up to half price, so you build a wider set of skills for a fraction of buying them separately.

    On completion you receive a TrustBite-recognised Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor certificate with a unique verification ID, and you are listed in the TrustBite registry of certified professionals. The registry is a public directory that employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people, so the certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.

    The certificate is valid for 3 years. After that it can be renewed by completing a short online refresher quiz for €50, and the updated certificate is issued automatically and your registry listing is kept current.

    The course runs over 3 to 5 weeks of private 1-on-1 sessions, scheduled around your working hours so it fits around production and audit activity instead of interrupting it.

    Start the Certified IFS Food Manager and Implementor

    Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your site, or book a free consultation first.

    Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.