Quality Manager

R-79260 | Salinas, Mexico

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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You ensure deployment of Mondelēz International’s risk-based food safety management program from design to execution, including Internal Manufacturer, External Manufacturers, suppliers and trademark licensing agreements.

How you will contribute

You will support the business unit's global quality policies and capture operational feedback to help keep them up to date. You will also deploy food safety programs in your assigned area of responsibility. In addition, you will ensure that risk assessments are used as a key decision-making approach for product, process and package design safety and provide risk-based food safety verifications for suppliers, internal and external plants and warehouses. In this role, you will also 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), 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.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

Delivering risk-based food safety programs to drive commercial outcomes, ideally within fast moving consumer goods environment
Influencing food safety strategy, providing operational observations and practical input that translates into significant business benefit
Collaborating to complete the agenda by working effectively across functions, geographies, and with internal and external
Relentless curiosity and a continuous improvement mentality
Building an internal network that allows for effective communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

Influence Operations & Deliver continuous improvement across manufacturing network through new tools / application, network benchmarking and leveraging cross-category, cross-region collaboration to ensure product design processes and quality systems are best in class.
Drive the successful implementation of quality policies, programs, tools and technologies that position Quality as a competitive advantage. Leverage shared services to enable achievement of manufacturing goals. Ensure preparedness for internal and 3rd party audits.
Work with plant quality managers to develop the plant Quality departments and capabilities. Provide necessary training and development in product knowledge, process technology, process control, optimization techniques, ensure direct staff is properly trained, focused, and viewed as exceptional partners to the plants and external manufacturers.
Providing program support to sites and facilitates in corrective/preventive action plans. Work with facilitates to ensure achievement of certification for 3rd party program, FSSC.

Education / Certifications:

B.S./M.S. in Food Sciences or similar discipline

Job specific requirements:

Minimum 12-15 years of related experience, with demonstrated technical and managerial ability.
Fluent English
Experience on IL6S program implementation.
Excellent leadership capabilities, interpersonal relations skills and problem-solving skills.
Extensive knowledge of Quality Principles and Mondelez Quality programs and Policies.
Demonstrated ability to work with all levels of the organization manufacturing settings.

Relocation Support Available?

Country to country Relocation support available through our Global Mobility Policies

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!