QA Director North America - Flora Food Group
New Century, KS
About the Job
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
About the position
Location: New Century, KS
Regional Quality Director NORTH AMERICA
Location: Kansas
In this role you will be responsible for quality assurance in North America for the end-to-end Upfield operations. Apart from managing quality in 3 Upfield factories, you are also responsible for quality management of 3rd party manufacturers, warehouses & logistics and supporting local marketing and sales teams for in market quality issues, consumer/customer care line support & returns, on-shelf assessments/improvements and incident/issue management.
You will own the quality and food safety improvement agenda and you will drive quality improvement throughout your region.
You will be reporting into the Head of Global Quality.
You will be responsible to:
- Ensure that all our products in your region meet the Upfield quality requirements.
- Manage a team of quality professionals, based in factories, and go-to-market locations throughout your region.
- You will own the entire end-to-end quality agenda in your region
- Define and drive improvement projects with suppliers, factories, warehouses and logistics to continuously improve quality standards. This includes import/ export lanes.
- Ensure compliance and roll out Upfield Quality processes and standards
- In case of quality non-conformances or incidents, you drive corrective and preventive actions with your factory, 3rd party, warehouse etc.
- Provide input in innovation/renovation/CAPEX projects with regards to quality/ food safety risks & required mitigations.
Also to be accountable for several responsibilities such as:
- Prepares leadership reports and communications regarding quality issues in logistics, country and manufacturing operations that affect the cluster and ensures improvement plans are in place and monitored through regular review
- Performs internal and external audits and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Ensures regular market place on-shelf product assessments are carried out, data is analyzed, and improvement projects are activated and followed up
- All persons shall have the responsibility to report problem(s) with regards to the FSMS to identified person(s).
- Import/ export: Ensures re-codification of product when required, ensure local registration of import product to comply with legislation, raise issues and drive improvements.
- Ensures core technology equipment and infrastructure design, process changes and specifications meet local regulatory requirements and product quality needs such as thermal and sanitary validations.
Requirements :
- Bachelor or master's degree in industrial or technical and process, chemical, food engineer or similar area.
- Multiple years of experience in a quality role in the dairy industry.
- 10-50 years' experience in Food Manufacturing and with demonstrated success in a quality role.
- Excellent communication skills: with multiple stakeholders, people from different cultures and backgrounds, within the company, but also with external contacts.
What's next
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