Manager Quality Assurance

About the role

Lead supplier quality assurance for raw and packaging materials and maintain product quality across storage, transportation and distribution. Build a proactive, risk-based programme to identify, qualify and develop vendors, prevent material-related food safety and quality failures, and verify damaged and expired market stock through documented controls.

What you'll do

• Maintain an approved supplier list and define quality requirements for new suppliers, existing suppliers and changes to material sources or manufacturing processes
• Raw and Packaging Material Risk Assessment: Assess biological, chemical, physical, allergen, adulteration and authenticity risks in raw materials
• Evaluate food-contact suitability, migration, contamination, barrier performance, seal integrity and transit protection risks in packaging
• Define sampling, testing and verification requirements according to material risk and supplier performance
• Conduct gap assessments and implement supplier improvement plans covering hygiene, process controls, traceability, testing, packaging consistency and capacity readiness

What you need

• 6–10 yrs of experience
• GMP
• Root cause analysis
• Six Sigma
• Vendor management
• Audit
• Compliance
• B.Tech or B.E. or M.Tech or M.Sc or B.Sc

Good to have

• Food safety
• Reconciliation
• Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Performance management