Job Title: Quality Assurance Director
About the Role:
The Central Quality and Food Safety Director is responsible for establishing and overseeing global quality and food safety standards within the bakery business. This role requires strategic leadership to drive continuous improvement in food safety culture, quality systems, and risk management across the company's operations and supply chain.
Key Responsibilities:
* Define and implement a Quality and Food Safety strategy aligned with the overall Product Leadership strategy and related business goals.
* Develop and maintain a robust Quality and Food Safety Management System with clear global policies and standards across all production sites and the supply chain, including supplier quality assurance programs, ensuring compliance with raw material and packaging specifications.
* Ensure compliance with international food safety regulations and standards (e.g. Lead crisis management and response for escalated quality and food safety incidents, ensuring timely and effective mitigation and resolution).
* Monitor and analyze overall quality and food safety performance metrics and conduct regular risk assessments and audits to drive continuous improvements supported by the OPEX tools and principles.
* Champion a quality and food safety culture across all levels of the organization supported by the relevant and effective training and development programs.
* Support future business developments as new product and process development, investment projects, and merger and acquisition activities, by embedding and managing relevant quality and food safety standards from the early phases of the projects.
* Lead a team of regional quality and food safety professionals and ensuring a smooth and effective collaboration with the local quality teams.
* Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, and Commercial teams.