• Job Description

  Req#: 47593

  About Kerry

  Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

  About the role

  Kerry is seeking to fill a key vacancy for a Food, Safety and Quality Director for Third Party Manufacturers and the position can be based remotely in the United States; however, it will require frequent travel to various sites and Beloit, WI.

  Key responsibilities

  • Provide food safety & quality oversight for a network of about 60 TPM’s supporting both the T&N and AH&N business. These sites manufacture and pack a wide range of food and pharma ingredients, so this position requires broad experience across multiple technologies including spray dry, fermentation, aseptic packaging, dry blending and packing.
  • Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to steer the TPM network and protocols to ensure success through contract requirements, compliance to Kerry standards, oversight of food safety program trends and procedures for positive release and validation. This role leads food safety and quality across the 60 TPM network, risk assessing each site and driving improvements to raise standards and reduce risk, with the authority to delist TPM’s that do not meet expectations.
  • Establish and execute a routine visit schedule to assess programs, compliance to Kerry and FDA/USDA standards and product specifications (source documents), compiling trip reports and using this information to add to the risk assessment of the TPM. Act as the director level contact for all food safety and quality issues relating to TPM’s including complaint investigation and recall/withdrawal. Conduct mock recalls to ensure traceability through our systems. Partner with Supply Quality to maximize learning from their supplier audit and the ongoing surveillance and oversight that this role will provide through additional visits and trend review.
  • Oversee, guide, and verify deployment of Kerry food safety and sanitation standards across sites in alignment with FDA, CFIA, PCQI, USDA. Conduct expert level review of food safety plans and prerequisite programs to identify and oversee closure of any gaps by the TPM as they pertain to Kerry products.
  • Inventory Quality Subject Matter Expert: Due to the close connection with Supply Chain, this role will have an additional responsibility as the subject matter expert for inventory control and reduction of stock at risk within the quality function with proficiency in the tools that are shared across function to assess and reduce stock at risk.
  • This role requires frequent travel to TPM sites (minimum of 50%) to assess practices, risk and compliance as well as resolving issues and coaching for improvement.
  • This role reports to the VP of Food Safety and Quality for North America, with a dotted line to VP of Supply Chain. The role will have 1-2 managers reporting to it that will support from a system, procedures, risk assessment perspective and can also work directly with TPM’s that need development or readiness assessments.

  Qualifications and skills

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited institution in Microbiology, Chemistry or a related science or engineering discipline.
  • 15+ years of experience in food safety and quality leadership, with a broad range of technologies including both FDA, USDA, and some pharma/dietary supplement exposure. Must be knowledgeable in technologies such as spray dry and aseptic, hygienic zoning, environmental monitoring and sanitation, sensory and analytical programs to effectively assess the quality of programs and practices at the site. Experienced auditor who brings experience and credibility and confidence to the role, capable of taking a firm stance on requirements and also coaching towards best practice.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience, strong collaborate that can drive the best way forward.
  • Knowledgeable in food safety, HACCP, GMP's, Prerequisite Programs, sanitation, hygienic zoning, and environmental monitoring.
  • GFSI Certification - SQF, BRC or FS22000. PCQI Trained.
  • Statistical Process Control and SAP knowledge preferred, with strong analytical and skills to organize data.
  • Must be willing to travel as needed to sites and occasionally to Beloit.

• About the company

  At Kerry, we are proud to provide our customers – some of the world’s best-known food, beverage, and pharma brands – with the expertise, insights, and know-how they need to deliver products that people enjoy and feel better about consuming.

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