CORPORATE QUALITY DIRECTOR - FMCG (España)

• Multinational Food Company|Corporate role, operations in Europe and Africa

Reputated multinational Food Company.

Promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the financial performance of the Group. Champion continuous improvement efforts and defect reduction initiatives to maintain and optimize an effective Quality Management System; initiate and implement quality improvement activities as appropriate to raise the performance of company's activities.

• Assures quality products and processes by establishing and enforcing quality standards and testing materials and products.


• Establishes quality and reliability standards by studying product and consumer requirements with other members of management and with production operators, technicians, and engineers.


• Develops raw material standards by studying manufacturing and engineering requirements, conferring and negotiating with suppliers, and devising testing methodsand procedures.


• Implements in-process product inspection standards by studying manufacturing methods and devising testing methods and procedures.


• Establishes standards for the disposition of finished product by devising evaluation tests, methods, and procedures.


• Creates and manages all quality KPIs required for Quality management, including nonquality costs, suppliers and copackers non-conformities, overall supply chain nonconformities, consumer complaints, internal plans. Decisive contributor to continuous improvement of quality.


• Institutes and maintain several international standards by methods and procedures management.


• Creates product quality documentation system by writing and updating quality assurance procedures.


• Maintains product quality by enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures and government requirements.


• Collaborates with other members of management to develop new product and engineering designs and manufacturing and training methods.


• Prepares product and process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and Summarizing information and trends.


• Completes quality assurance operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results.


• Develops a quality assurance staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.


• Manages quality assurance staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.


• Ensures quality by planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.


• Achieves financial objectives by preparing the quality assurance budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances and non-quality costs, and initiating corrective actions.


• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

To be part of a growing solid FMCG international company

• The position requires high availability to travel.


• BA or BS in relevant field (Chemical, Biology, Veterinary, Food Technology).


• Very fluent English, other languages desirable.


• Over 10 years' experience as Quality Manager, preferably in a Corporate/Global position.


• Mandatory to have previous experience in food industry (manufacturer, retailer, integrator).


• Knowledge of wet technologies will be very valuable.


• Experience managing a team of people.


• Knowledge of safety requirements, legal standards, and quality processes.


• Working knowledge of quality system requirements.