A leading FMCG is looking for Plant Quality Assurance Manager

Purpose of the Role:

- Responsible for driving quality excellence for own manufacturing units and satellite third party operations.

- Deploy quality assurance and improvement processes for the operations on continuous basis.

- Expected to add tremendous value in building culture towards quality improvement, problem solving, innovation by building strong capability in the team and extended associates.

Qualification & Experience:

- Graduate in Engineering . Post graduation in any stream would be added advantage, preferably MBA.

- At least 7 years of managerial experience in quality management area in leading organisation.

- Strong understanding of Quality management processes, Excellence processes, HACCP, TPM - QM and GMP etc.

- Six Sigma Black Belt and strong understanding of practical application of statistical tools

Key Deliverables of the Role:

- Immediate supervisory responsibility for Quality Assurance in the mother plant and sub-contract units in line with quality systems and regulatory requirements to ensure zero defect at market place.

- On-going data analysis of product and process outputs for early detection, RCA and CAPA, to prevent quality issues, reduce COPQ and identify improvement opportunities.

- Build culture for quality and drive excellence throughout unit operations.

- Drive Quality Programme aggressively, ensuring appropriate levels of personal responsibility and accountability for Quality decisions and outcomes, within function and cross functions, focusing on accuracy, consistency and comprehensiveness.

- Design and anchor/facilitate training programmes for Company and Sub-contract members on Quality processes, GMP, Food Safety, and HACCP.

- Supervise, coach and nurture the Quality Team by way of performance evaluation, identification of development needs.

- Conduct/facilitate internal and external audits related to food safety, HACCP and GMP.

- Work closely with Corporate Quality Assurance and Technology teams for ensuring compliance, building perspective and support for improvement initiatives and projects.

- Liaison with Government/ Regulatory officials.

Skills and Competencies:

- Extremely detail oriented.

- Strong enquiry and analytical skills.

- Highly organised - prioritisation, planning and execution.

- Approachable, flexible and ability to build healthy collaborative relationships within the team, internal and external stakeholders.

- Inspire and motivate team and business associates.

Other Key Functional Interfaces:

- CQA, Packaging, Regulatory & Process Excellence teams

Growth Path & Future:

- Horizontal: Managerial roles in CQA/ Plants in Edible and Value Added Products clusters in India/ International Manufacturing locations /Regulatory/Process Excellence functions

- Vertical: Head - CQA Domestic, Head - CQA Intl Business

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