Role Purpose
Lead the Quality & Food Safety function for the export business, ensuring products manufactured across multiple plants meet international quality, food safety and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the overall Quality & Food Safety framework for the export business across multiple plants.
- Standardise quality policies, processes and controls for export production.
- Ensure compliance with country-specific food safety, quality, labelling and regulatory requirements.
- Lead international customer, regulatory and food safety audits and ensure timely closure of observations.
- Drive compliance with FDA, European and other international export regulations.
- Ensure export quality standards are implemented within day-to-day manufacturing operations.
- Monitor quality performance, deviations, CAPA and continuous improvement across plants.
- Ensure country-specific product, packaging, labelling and food safety requirements are clearly implemented at plant level.
- Identify quality risks across the export supply chain and establish appropriate controls.
- Build capabilities of plant quality teams through training and knowledge sharing.
- Develop MIS and dashboards to track quality performance, audits, deviations, compliance and CAPA.
- Continuously strengthen the export quality framework as the business expands into new international markets.
Candidate Profile
- 15+ years of experience in Quality / Food Safety, preferably in a large manufacturing setup.
- Strong experience in Food, Beverage, FMCG, Agri-processing or Processed Food manufacturing.
- Strong international export exposure with knowledge of country-specific regulations.
- Good understanding of FDA, European and other international food safety requirements.
- Experience handling international audits and regulatory compliance.
- Experience building and improving quality systems, beyond audit management.
- Experience working across multiple plants / manufacturing locations.
- Experience managing large Quality teams at a senior HOD / Corporate level.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.
Preferred Industries
- Food & FMCG companies with significant export operations.
- Beverage companies with manufacturing and export exposure.
- B2B food businesses.
- Seafood and meat processing / packaging companies.
- Pharmaceutical companies with strong quality and process-safety systems.
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