Quality Manager

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

We are looking for a Quality Manager based on Cali- Colombia.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Implement, improve, and optimize factory quality systems (food safety, hygiene, and quality).
• Guarantee performance achievements and development competences for their quality factory team.
• Continuously improve the quality culture at the site and beyond factory that promotes Good Manufacturing and Storage conditions for our products.
• Optimize and manage factory quality budget throughout improvement projects.
• Prepares leadership reports and communications regarding quality issues in logistics, country and manufacturing operations that affect the cluster and ensures improvement plans are in place and monitored through regular review.
• Responsible for supporting QMS compliance in factory, warehouses & logistics as needed to meet marketplace needs.
• Performs internal audits and gives follow up for external audits and corrective actions to guarantee FSSC 22000 certification,  AIB inspection and client audits with satisfactory results.
• Initiates activities aimed at managing quality issues with customers and channels including rejections, complaints, technical support, product handling and customer waste reduction.
• Develop strong RCA and CAPAs to improve the performance of the factory Quality and Food Safety Management system and reduce consumer and customer complaints and incidents.
• Assure technological and new product or process implementations at the factory are according to Flora Global Quality Standards.
• Provides Quality requirements for physical product returns from customers and provides disposition approval (where needed).
• Ensures regular marketplace on-shelf product assessments are carried out, data is analyzed, and improvement projects are activated and followed up.
• Import/ export: Ensures re-codification of product when required, ensure local registration of import product to comply with legislation, raise issues and drive improvements.
• Ensures instant shelf audits are completed for new innovations and promotions to provide timely feedback.
• Acts as liaison between suppliers, planning, logistics and warehouse to meet spend and identify opportunities for efficiencies.

Requirements:

• 7-8 Years’ experience as Quality management in food factories
• Technical career background: Food Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Biochemical Engineer, Chemist, etc.  
• Advanced English is a must
• Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver projects to a high quality engineering standard.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strategic and collaborative thinking
• FSSC 22000 experience
• CIP validation experience
• Food thermal processes experience

Desirable:

• R&D knowledge and way of working
• Experience leading Quality teams
• ESH management
• PCQI certified
• FSSC 22000 lead auditor certified
• HACCP certified
• Spreads process advance knowledge
• Regulatory advance knowledge
• ISO 9001 lead auditor certified
• Integrated systems HSEQ lead auditor certified

¡If you are interested in taking a step forward in your professional career, apply here!

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.  

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