Assistant Manager - Market Quality Assurance

Handling 3rd Party QA experience is a MUST

- Analyzes Food Safety and Quality management systems across the distributor and retail outlets as it relates to handling and movement of food products throughout the logistics chain.

- Assesses distributor operations and execution consistency and reliability including cold chain data analysis. Food distribution supply chain auditing.

- Validates Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), audit data and corrective actions resultant from verification activities to distributors' management.

- Investigates internal/external customer/consumer complaints, praise, and inquiries, regulator and workgroup input. Provides recommendations for improvement and follows up on execution.

- Manages the interface with other functions to recommend and oversee updates of distribution operating procedures, standards manuals and operational tools that are related to distribution food safety, product quality and regulatory compliance.

- Communicates effectively to provide internal customers with appropriate awareness and knowledge of distribution quality assurance standards, requirement, program updates and process changes.

- Interfaces and influences cross-functional teams as the product safety, quality management system expert in the development of new initiatives or operating practices. Ensures company business initiatives meet product safety, quality and regulatory standards at the market place.

- Acts as subject matter expert on project teams to support product safety and quality initiatives to develop and implement new distribution QA programs or procedure improvements needed to support business initiatives. Collaborates and influences cross functionally to create alignment of distribution QA programs across the company