A specialist Food Manufacturer is currently seeking a qualified leader to head up their global food safety and quality strategy for their specialist food products. 

Reporting to the Global Head of Manufacturing operations, The Quality Leader will have 3 direct reports with a team of 14 across QC, Labs and QMS.

Aside from a complex portfolio of nutritional food products; the Quality Leader will also be responsible for managing the external relationships with their contract manufacturing partners, ensuring all quality and food safety standards are met and prioritised. 

Responsibilities include:

• Define and lead on the Quality Strategy including mid to long term planning

• Establish the annual Quality objectives based on the yearly operational master planning cycle

• Lead and monitor progress against strategic and operational plans establishing relevant, tracked and reportable KPI's

• Control the annual budget for all activities relating to Quality Assurance and identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize tasks to deliver budget benefits

• Oversee the maintenance and development of the QMS ensuring compliance to all required Quality standards

• Ensure the monitoring of key quality parameters in order to drive structured root cause analysis and continuous improvement i

• Manage the internal and external audit programs  

• Ensure preparedness for crisis and incident management of Quality related issues

• Provide support and technical expertise to the business and leadership in Quality related incidents

• Lead member of the crisis committee for all product-related incidents ensuring follow up, compliance and corrective actions

• Lead in post incident analysis to share learnings and drive improvements

The successful Quality & Foods Safety leader will ideally be educated to degree level in a food science or related subject and have extensive knowledge in a food manufacturing environment and across multiple categories including high care and ideally thermal processing / aseptic processes. 

Please get in touch to find out more about this fantastic opportunity with a company committed to sustainable food production, or apply today with your CV.