Senior Supplier Quality Assurance

at  Mars

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Your goal as a Senior Supplier Quality Assurance is to represent Mars forward Supplier on Quality & Food safety compliance. The role will be key to strategically shape and execute the Mars Supplier Quality Management program for one of the biggest categories in Food. You will play a significant role in the onboarding of new Suppliers, performs audits, leads Supplier quality programs, is involved in non-conformance investigations and leads the Global SQA community for the category, with who the strategy for all regions is defined. The position is collaborating closely with Quality, Procurement & Product Development and Supply.

The Senior Supplier Quality Assurance will have support from the wider Commercial team as well as several functions in R&D. You will work closely with peers from the Q&FS and Supply. You will be involved in short term assessing, approving, verifying & developing supplier’s capability to meet specification of incoming materials.

• Being an active part of an highly engaged, highly transparent & highly enthusiastic local and European team
• Opportunity to work with team of professionals.
• Opportunity to learn new functionality and business processes.
• Flexible schedule.
• Work remotely across multiple countries

Assess confidence in suppliers capability to meet specification and quality requirements

• To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.
• Verifying the quality and effectiveness of the controls by auditing the suppliers’ production facilities and implement & follow up corrective actions where needed

Lead the global SQA community & build the strategy for Global SQA Category

• Lead the Global SQA Category community.
• Build a strategy driving improvement globally for the Category
• Assess Standard compliance & be involve in the corporate standard revamp.

Assess confidence in suppliers capability to meet specification and quality requirements

• To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.
• Verifying the quality and effectiveness of the controls by auditing the suppliers’ production facilities and implement & follow up corrective actions where needed.

Strategic Supplier Performance Management

• Manage the Supplier relationship with the Key Supplier of the particular Category
• Define ambitious quality targets for the suppliers, and deliver year on year reduction in supplier non-conformance to support factory efficiency. Ensure regular reviews of supplier quality performance with suppliers.
• Create a strategy supporting the Category performance in the region
• Lead the strategic projects of the category in the region

Continuous Improvement

• Manage ad-hoc quality supplier related issues
• Initiate, drive and follow up on corrective actions related to materials &suppliers and inform internal stakeholders
• Contribute Q&FS insights and Material quality management standards to the supply strategy.

Non Conformances Management

• Support critical non-conformance investigation of the Category
• Initiate, drive and follow-up on corrective actions related to materials & suppliers and inform internal stakeholders.

Quality & food safety risk assessment of Low, medium Risk suppliers or high risk commodities suppliers

• Assessing the risks of existing and new materials and ensuring these risks are transferred into specifications (microbiological, chemical and physical).
• Understanding the controls that suppliers have in place for controlling these risks
• Partner with buyer to ensure material risk assessment & specifications are reviewed, understood and agreed by the supplier