Food Safety Manager ( 12 months contract)

As a Food Safety Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the deployment of a risk-based food safety management program from design to execution as well as conducting food safety risk assessments, HACCP validations, setting acceptance criteria and performing food safety monitoring.

Requirements

• Maintain proper documentation relating to QA reports, KPI’s and ensure trends identified in audits and HACCP validations are tracked and preventative actions are developed.
• Design, development, and deployment of Food Safety programs
• Support the business quality policies and capture operational feedback to keep them up to date
• Establish food safety scorecard with defined criteria to assess food safety risk factors, implement improvement strategies and communication to all applicable stakeholders
• Develop Food safety strategy for the company and work with plants to ensure objectives are met
• Responsible for Food Safety Assessments
• Ensure risk assessments are used as a key decision-making approach for product, process and package design safety
• Provide risk-based food safety verifications for suppliers, manufacturing sites, warehouses, and transportation and customer
• Conduct HACCP validations (planning and execution)
• Food Safety Risk Assessments to support plant notifications and critical business issues (Crisis Management)
• Assess, review, and approve R&D, Engineering and Supply Chain projects
• Support the effective management of operational food safety challenges at factories (including disposition decision making based on risk assessment and advice on risk management interactions with authorities)
• Partner with factories on improvement strategies for quality and food safety compliance
• Development of capabilities and competencies in the short and long term to the plant quality teams and HACCP coordinators
• Governance and support for CAPA plans in the full Supply Chain related to Food Safety
• Support for QCMS audits and other compliance requirements FS policies
• Provide cross-functional leadership with QA, R&D and Commercial functions
• Develop and provide training on company food safety management requirements
• Participate in GFSI, customer and supplier audits as required
• Influence and partner with cross-functional peers, effectively communicating how food safety supports our company values and implement a food safety culture across the organization

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Work, life balance