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Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager
Location: Remote - EU Travel
Industry: Beverage Manufacturing
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000
Are you passionate about ensuring the highest standards in quality and excellence?
Do you thrive in a dynamic and innovative environment? We are searching for a dedicated and experienced Quality Assurance Manager to join our client, a global beverage company and play a key role in maintaining the integrity of their products.
The Advocate Group is leading the search for a brand newly created position for an experienced Quality Assurance professional to drive quality standards in manufacturing processes across bottling partners in EMEA, with a particular focus on Europe.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing QA leadership and manage from quality perspective assigned projects (quality project like new site approval, and new line approval, NPD projects).
- Organized, facilitate and tracking the quality assurance validation activities.
- Managing and tracking the Non-Conformances, root cause analysis investigation. Manage and tracking implementation of the corrective actions and preventive actions.
- Manage and provide direction to the QMS coordinator and the QAE junior during investigations into consumer complaints.
- Build effective relationships with customers, suppliers, contract manufacturers & internal stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively to all levels of the business, including senior management, peers, colleagues, partners & direct reports.
- Conducting scheduled external Quality / Food Safety Management System Audits (GMP) as assigned.
- Attending and monitoring first quality trial productions for new sites (and new lines) as assigned.
- Travel to the co packing & supplier production sites, across the European region as required to support investigations, provide technical support to trial productions from quality perspective, ensure appropriate change control, and to conduct GMP Audits.
- Deputize the QAD as required (deputize the QAD on incident management when required).
- Analysing data, interpreting & then reporting as requested (external lab analysis, NPD data and Quality metrics, scorecard).
- Implement new procedures & improve the existing procedures as part of the Monster Energy QMS.
- Manage, train, develop and give leadership to direct reports.
The Ideal Experience:
- A science degree or equivalent, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Engineering, Life Sciences or other related technical degree.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience within the Quality function of a Food & Beverage organisation.
- Must be able to perform with minimal direction at high level
- Experience of QMS Auditing preferable
- Experience of Non-Conformance and Incident Management
- Experience with statistical analysis.
- Leadership skills
- Fully computer literate (Microsoft Office)
The Person:
- Flexible, enthusiastic, hardworking & committed to a career in Quality Management
- High level of personal integrity
- Ability to work on own initiative and in a team
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to be calm, patient and assertive
- Ability to adapt to change
- A rapid learner & a creative solver of problems
- Happy to travel, work evenings & early mornings – as the job requires
- Resilient and able to cope with the rigors of a demanding job
Application Process: If you're ready to take the next step in your career and drive the growth of an exciting global business, we'd love to hear from you!
Get in touch with Ellis at the Advocate Group or 'APPLY NOW' to be considered for this exciting vacancy.
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The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
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