Manager, International Supply Chain Quality - Boston, United States - Inspire Brands
Description
To manage and maintain an international, industry-leading quality and food safety management systems throughout the Inspire Brands International supply chain, delivering quality (inclusive of food safety) and risk management, mitigation, and focused improvement.
Ensuring the protection of our consumers, franchisees, and brands through execution of supplier and product approval based on risk assessment and measurement of ongoing performance to standards.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain, implement, and execute systems for the management of
- Evaluate suppliers for QA qualification for the Inspire supply chain in accordance with Innovation to Market, New Market Entry and Supply Chain demands and project timelines.
- Ensure all suppliers are risk assessed and approved in accordance with Inspire policies and quality management system & standards
- Measure, analyze, and report supplier risk, and quality performance through systems audits, certifications, specification compliance, KPIs, complaints, defect rates, and any other applicable performance measures.
- Establish supplier performance indicators and controls to mitigate risks.
- Support, enable, and execute quality requirements and verification of suppliers as part of the oversight of licensee/franchisee local sourcing within Inspire QA policies.
- Lead continuous improvement, corrective and preventative actions, and another focused improvement with suppliers as necessary.
- Maintaining processes and procedures for effectively reporting supplier of performance.
- Monitor, review, assign disposition communicate, and resolve
- Support and/or lead international supplier manufacturing plant startup and related startup activities as needed k. Interface with supplier QA contacts, Franchisees, and regulators for all quality and food safety matters.
- Identify and maintain such 3rd Party relationships and support providers, inclusive of identification, capability assessment, qualifications, ongoing performance, and calibration to brand standards and requirements.
- Maintain and execute product risk analysis and process and procedures for product approval, including:
- Execute processes and procedures in accordance with Inspire policies and quality management systems for product approval.
- Monitor, risk assess, respond to, and resolve product complaints in
- Execute product quality evaluation and compliance verification processes and performance optimization and communication.
- Ensure quality role within the new market entry and innovation to market projects are executed right first time and ontime.
- Lead quality by design within the innovationtomarket process
- Contribute to supply chain cost, capacity and contingency projects as required with supplier qualification processes and procedures.
- Maintain effective twoway dialogue to ensure teams/stakeholders
- Link with stakeholders to gain crossfunctional support for the product
- Execute supply chain interventions as necessary to ensure productrelated incidents
- Execute systems and processes for Specifications Life Management:
- Ensures systems are in place to manage and maintain current
- Ensures the basis for managing product quality for key products is defined in product specifications.
- Ensures processes for specification creation, review, and approval are executed and maintained.
- Ensures current specifications are communicated to and agreed with Suppliers.
- Ensure process and procedures specification change management is established and executed.
- Support quality systems and standards for continuous improvement
- Contribute to systems and standards landscape analysis and best
- Support and contribute to systems optimization initiatives and
- Ensure standards, processes, and procedures are documented, communicated, and always maintained current. d. Support systems user training, calibration, and qualification
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS
- _ Minimum:_ 4-year degree in Food Science, Biology, Engineering, Medical Sciences
- _ Preferred: _Certification in Lead Auditor, HACCP Quality Manager
- _ Minimum: _3-7 Years of_ _Experience in a food manufacturing quality assurance role or related food industry experience managing quality assurance/food safety programs and/or manufacturing systems
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, OR ABILITIES
- Knowledge of:
- Good Manufacturing Practices, (GMPs)
- ISO Standards
- US FDA/USDA regulations, Canadian food mfg criteria, and regulations (CFIA, etc),& International Food Regulations
- Continuous improvement methodologies (example: Lean, TPM, TQM & Six Sigma)
- Statistical Process Control
- Sanitation in
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