Senior Manager - Quality

Role and Responsibilities  :-

• Ensures Food Safety & Conformity of all products delivered to market, consistently with the overall SQCDME Plant

               performance.

• Optimizes the Plant Laboratory in its four dimensions: production / expertise / training / exemplarity.
• Ensures that Quality is part of all working instructions.
• Organizes with Sourcing Quality and implements the Incoming Inspection process, with strong feed-back toward Suppliers.
• Builds & steers a Plant Quality Improvement Plan, consistent with the CBU Quality Business plan and corporate directives.
• Develops process capability & Quality visual management at all steps of incoming/production/maintenance.
• Eradicates critical problems with strong PDCA.
• Promotes Risk Assessment and “Built-in Quality” in all Plant projects: productivity, new products, new equipment’s.
• Organizes audits Vs internal & external referential, and uses them as improvement opportunities.
• Combines a high reactivity to new problems with perseverant management of the Medium Term Quality Improvement Plan.
• Organizes trainings & coach plant teams for daily quality management, particularly First Line Managers.
• Develops the Quality team, and promotes moves from and to other functions.
• Builds a common vision and related behaviors, shared by all the Plant teams.
• As member of Plant Managing Committee, contributes to the Plant SQCDME performance as a whole.

Food Safety Responsibilities:

• Act as a Food Safety team leader (as defined in the ISO 22000:2005 standard) with responsibility and

authority on Food Safety Management.

• Manage the Food Safety Team and organize its work.
• Ensure relevant training and education of the Food Safety Team.
• Ensure that the Food Safety Management System is established, implemented, maintained and updated
• Report to the Factory Manager on the effectiveness and suitability of the Food Safety Management system.
• Liaison with external parties on matters relating to the food safety Management System.

Education Background : Graduate/Post Graduate in Science

Skills Needed (Technical) : Food safety (HACCP, FSSC 22000, GMP etc)

Experience Needed (Professional) : 8- 10 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Manager in a similar industry manufacturing Infant Nutrition, Infant Cereals, Health Care Nutrition or Medical Nutrition products

Core Functional Competencies to be successful on the job:

• Problem solving PDCA,QFS management system, Formulation, process and equipment’s

Interpersonal relation, communication, team management, ability to convince and negotiation