SU Group Quality Manager
Nomad Foods
SU Group Quality Manager
Salary Not Specified
Nomad Foods, Mount Hermon, Woking
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 18 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 08cd3fce96a549cb9028e2dab1296fad
Full Job Description
This role is known for supporting NF's SU Quality & manufacturing leadership teams, across a range of frozen food / ice cream categories, deploying standardisation of SU Quality best practice and driving the SU Product Safety / Quality agend, with the HO SU Quality., Product Safety & Quality improvement programs
- Drive a prioritised action plan for alignment of ways of working for NF SU Quality Procedures / codes of practice.
- Provide a risk based overview across all SU's to drive best practices & standardisation program.
- Actively support the implementation of supply chain footprint projects.
- Leadership; building strong relationships with SU Leadership teams, providing SU Quality support to each SU Ops Team.
- Influencing skills; with SU Quality & Leadership teams, to support the SU sites & deliver QA performance targets for agreed Quality KPI's & GFSI audit/certification food safety standards.
- Collaboration; with Procurement/Supplier Assurance/RDQ teams (e.g. specs) to progress suppliers issues with NF's suppliers.
- Using Quality KPI's & Process Compliance, provide status assessment & on-going tracking / reporting of SU Quality performance, identifying risk based gaps in the action plans.
- Ensuring the SU Quality agenda, supporting the HO SU Quality / HO Ops Quality, is aligned to the wider business Quality direction.
- Give strategic input & support, with the HO SU Quality, for the achievement of SU's with responsibly manufactured business objectives, meeting international food industry standards.
- Actively reduce risk of conflict of interests, drive a risk based (consumer & brand) assessment with Product Incident management & support with NF Product Incident training for SU Quality teams.
- Provide technical support for the Sourcing Unit's (SU's) Quality Teams to ensure the product safety, legality, sustainability and quality of Nomad Foods (NF's) products.
- Have a detailed understanding of SU Quality ways of working, through site visits and connections with the SU Quality teams. Map SU Quality processes against NF's ways of working (e.g. CoP) & support SU Quality teams development initiatives and delivery of training plans.
- Promote a Product Safety culture within the SC business & actively support NF's Group Quality program.
- Take a proactive approach in driving Quality performance & agenda, plus being a change agent to step-change the ways-of-working in SU Quality teams.
FMCG SU Quality experience. - HACCP (level 3 or 4).
- Food Microbiology.
- Food Technology.
- GFSI audit / certifications, particularly BRC & IFS.
- Good understanding of factory Quality & matrix organisation, processes and ways of working.
- Demonstrate People centric mentality & collaborative behaviour.
- Having a pragmatic approach to problem solving, root cause analysis and reaching risk based solutions.
SU Quality Agenda Leadership
SU Quality Performance
Product Incident Management
Technical Support
SU's Food Safety Culture