SQA Packaging Technologist - Flexibles

at  Mars

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Packaging Supplier Quality Assurance team is responsible to approve and manage suppliers that can deliver packaging to Mars Wrigley factories and co-packers , ensuring they fulfill the requirements of the Mars Packaging Quality Management standard.

The principal accountability of this role is to achieve the following benefits:

• Knowledge of Mars technical requirements and assurance of the suppliers’ capability to deliver against this
• Assess confidence in suppliers capability to meet technical specification and quality requirements
• Objective supplier performance measurement to drive Continuous Improvement
• Root cause analysis and resolution of non-conformances
• Technical development of the supply base to meet future packaging material developments.
• Alignment of suppliers with the Mars food safety management program

Working as part of the Commercial Supplier Quality Assurance team, the job holder will be developing new and existing suppliers to deliver our growth and commercial targets while ensuring they meet the Mars Global Quality standards. A key requirement of the job will be to influence the packaging supply base to continually improve their quality performance. The relationship with internal clients is critical to this role to understand the needs of the business and the technical requirements from suppliers for packaging material. The job holder will have responsibility for packaging materials from around 30-50 suppliers delivering to all Mars Wrigley Confectionery sites in Europe.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Responsible for the Quality assessment and input of quality standards, Q&FS insights, supplier performance in the selection rocess to define the right Sourcing strategy for the Packaging supplier base and potential new packaging suppliers for the Mars Confectionery EMEA region
• Assessment and confirmation of supplier capability to meet ARS Quality standards by supplier risk assessment, SQA audit, review of analytical data, verifying supplier hazard controls are operating effectively to ensure all quality, food safety and legal risks associated with packaging, their storage and transport are robustly managed.
• To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.
• Support the supplier to address gaps in Q&FS capability and suggest improvement areas to develop suppliers to meet the right Quality standards.
• Develop technical expertise in the production of packaging and keep up to date with technical developments in the industry that can set new standards and best practises for our suppliers
• Resolve packaging related technical/quality non-conformances through thorough root cause analysis and defining corrective and preventive actions with the supplier and good follow-through.
• 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.
• Drive operational excellence of supplier base against PQM tandard.
• Improve internal systems and tools to make quality reporting and data management efficient.

The principal accountability of this role is to achieve the following benefits:

• Knowledge of Mars technical requirements and assurance of the suppliers’ capability to deliver against this
• Assess confidence in suppliers capability to meet technical specification and quality requirements
• Objective supplier performance measurement to drive Continuous Improvement
• Root cause analysis and resolution of non-conformances
• Technical development of the supply base to meet future packaging material developments.
• Alignment of suppliers with the Mars food safety management progra

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Responsible for the Quality assessment and input of quality standards, Q&FS insights, supplier performance in the selection rocess to define the right Sourcing strategy for the Packaging supplier base and potential new packaging suppliers for the Mars Confectionery EMEA region
• Assessment and confirmation of supplier capability to meet ARS Quality standards by supplier risk assessment, SQA audit, review of analytical data, verifying supplier hazard controls are operating effectively to ensure all quality, food safety and legal risks associated with packaging, their storage and transport are robustly managed.
• To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.
• Support the supplier to address gaps in Q&FS capability and suggest improvement areas to develop suppliers to meet the right Quality standards.
• Develop technical expertise in the production of packaging and keep up to date with technical developments in the industry that can set new standards and best practises for our suppliers
• Resolve packaging related technical/quality non-conformances through thorough root cause analysis and defining corrective and preventive actions with the supplier and good follow-through.
• 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.
• Drive operational excellence of supplier base against PQM tandard.
• Improve internal systems and tools to make quality reporting and data management efficient