This is an opportunity to join a world-class consumer package goods manufacutrer in an important decision making role managing the quality assurance components of new product launches.
Key skills: quality assurance, microbiology, suppliers of new materials/products, food/beverage, product launches, liaison between R&D and factory, release to market decisions, testing, supplier quality, innovation/renovation product projects, taste test, shelf life, audits, challenge testing, protocols, pre-HACCP, Quality Management Systems, storage.
We would to consider your background, if you have the following:
- Minimum of Bachelor's Biology (microbiology) or related major; prefer advanced degree.
- You will "tread on a larger stage" than a plant Quality Assurance Manager. You will need to stand up to senior executives, hold your ground and demonstrate your position. An example would be your competitors use a particular ingredient in a product. Your executive management want to meet competition. The product is not FDA approved. You make your case.
- Minimum of 5 years in a leadership Quality Assurance and/or R&D role with a well-branded food or beverage manufacturer.
- Willing to travel 50% to site locations.
- Combine the communication leadership to insure product integrity with managerial courage and effective communications from consultants to suppliers to corporate to factories.
- Demonstrate effective recent product launches in food or beverage from a Quality Assurance view.
- Likely our ideal candidate is currently employed as a Corporate Quality Assurance Manager working in a Technology Center.
You can reside at one of many factory/corporate sites in North America.
