Quality and Food Safety Manager

5 months ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Danone Full time

About the job
We have a fantastic new opportunity for a **Quality and Food Safety Manager** to be part of our talented and dynamic Quality and Food Safety team based in Auckland. As a key people leader, you will contribute toward delivering Danone Quality and Food Safety ambition and commitments with a focus on identifying opportunities for improvements while promoting consumer-centric thinking.

Reporting to the Quality and Food Safety Director ANZ, you will contribute to the Auckland site’s Quality and Food Safety short and long-term strategies and plans. You will lead QFS Audits and work closely with the external authorities ensuring Danone adheres to the required compliance and regulations.

You will:

- Design and deliver QFS strategies and ensure robust quality systems on the site
- Motivate and coach the team in developing the required technical competencies necessary to effectively deliver and drive desired business results
- Manage operational impacts of quality and food safety including Capex, budget, and improvement projects
- Build an agile mindset within the core team with a focus on continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure appropriate GMP and other standards are maintained on-site with effective gap analysis leading to robust corrective and preventive actions
- Effectively manage QFS risks and QFS input into the change management process
- Manage customer complaints and non-conformity investigations on the site
- Work collaboratively with the cross-functional local and global teams on various QFS projects

About you
You are a strong people leader and a strategic, experienced Quality professional. Your proven leadership and stakeholder management experience, project management background, and ability to work with external regulatory authorities will be advantageous in this role.** **You bring a strong quality and food safety systems implementation background including improvement systems. Your ability to work cross-functionally and your natural flair to build and sustain good working relationships will be key to your success in this role.

To be successful you should also ideally have:

- A tertiary qualification in Chemistry/Microbiology/Food Science or similar
- Proven management experience in Infant Formula/Dairy/Food or other FMCG manufacturing
- Good understanding of HACCP, FSSC22000, GHP & GMP systems and requirements
- Sound IT skills (statistical process control and problem-solving expertise desirable)
- Prior experience in food handling and pathogen management
- Lean manufacturing techniques and Six Sigma experience would be a plus

About us
Danone’s mission is Bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy planet, and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

**Danone Nutricia Specialised Nutrition **produces specialty foods for infants and young children, and our mission **“We make every day count for you and your baby”** gives meaning to everything we do. We operate out of 3 sites in New Zealand in Auckland and Balclutha, where our teams undertake the development, manufacturing, and distribution, of our infant milk and toddler supplements with market-leading brands.

**WE OFFER**
- The opportunity to make this strategic role your own, with broad exposure across all areas of our business
- A large canvas to learn and grow in the role
- Endless possibilities to develop and accelerate your career
- An opportunity for global mobility at other global Danone locations
- A chance to make a difference in our society through Early Life Nutrition
- A dynamic manager and a high-performing team where you are both challenged and supported

Proving yourself in this role could lead to future opportunities within **Danone** both locally and abroad. We support our employees to take ownership of developing their career within **Danone** and encourage moves across (as well as within) our varying functions and businesses. We are passionate about developing and growing our team of leaders, and that could soon include you

**WHAT’S NEXT?**

**_ No Recruitment Agencies please._

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