Head Quality - Food - Snacks

Role & responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of Standard Operating Procedures, standards and support in competency building of co-mfg. site teams as per organization requirements
• Development and support in setup & approval of new Co-manufacturing partners and expansion of the existing partners facilities wrt Food safety, Hygienic engineering, Pathogen monitoring plans, Plant Cleaning & Sanitation, Pest management, Quality monitoring schemes, Process validations & Compliances requirements and best practices.
• Accountable for adherence of end-to-end quality management and advising the business & procurement on key quality & process strategies in terms of CAPEX @ co-manufacturer end.
• Ensuring Compliance to First Time Right and seamless throughput for achieving planned targets.
• Implementation of Quality systems & compliances requirements with respect to Regulatory for all plants.
• Routine audits of co-manufacturing, raw material & packaging material vendors sites for Food safety & compliance evaluation
• Coaching and Developing Quality & Process verticals (Food Safety, HACCP, Product QA & NPD, RM PM, Sensory, Compliances, Consumer complaints & Plant In-charges) on functional and leadership competencies.
• Ensuring Continuous Excellence, Operational savings and budgetary controls.
• Experience in handling authorities & consumer visits in terms of authority deviations, notices & critical complaints

Preferred candidate profile

Ideal Candidate –

• B. Tech / M. Tech in food Technology from premier institutes having 15 to 20 years’ experience in Food, Savories, Beverages,
• Should have worked in tier one companies, MNCs
• Should have experience in the entire areas of Quality, RM, PM, HACCP, Food safety, Development of standards, QMS, Auditing & Certification Audits, Sensory Management, NPD, Risk assessment, Storage, Transportation etc
• Should be willing to work out of Rajasthan Location (Bikaner)
• Should be experienced in handling multi-location Plants and contract manufacturing plants.
• Should have excellent communication and presentation skills.