Supplier Quality Lead

at  Wonderbrands

SUMMARY

Reporting to Director of Food Safety, Quality and Customer Care, the Supplier Quality Lead will be responsible for suppliers’ quality and food safety approval program for all new and existing packaging, ingredients, MRO items and service providers supporting Procurement and Sourcing team needs. Working closely with R&D, Sourcing and Quality Assurance Program teams, he/she will be responsible for communication with new suppliers’ quality representatives to ensure that all of Wonder brands Food Safety requirements are met during approval process and all of the paperwork and audits for existing suppliers are maintained and up to date.

REQUIREMENTS

• Post-secondary education in a relevant field is required.
• 2-3 years’ experience in food safety with a strong knowledge of food safety (BRC, HACCP) programs, GMP programs and QA systems
• Exceptional communication skills showing ability to serve as liaison between cross-functional internal and external teams.
• Proven organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks, the ability to work well with others; working knowledge of manufacturing processes and attention to detail are critical.
• Strong computer skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, Trace gains, SAP)

• Manage and lead the supplier approval team to ensure that tasks are conducted consistently, efficiently and meet the needs of the business.
• Work with supplier approval team in providing expertise, guidance, and leadership as it pertains to supplier approval activities.
• Communicating to all new and existing Wonder brands suppliers (Fresh business) of packaging, ingredients, MRO items and service providers regarding food safety/quality requirements as per current FGF food safety program.
• Take lead on executing various initiatives and communications with suppliers and cross functional teams to ensure supplier documents are up to date in system and approvals are done in timely manner.
• Assess all supplier’s paperwork to validate and minimize any risks with new materials.
• Connect with suppliers through the Trace gains and ensure documents in system are up to date. Uploading supplier information and documents received thru emails and maintain the required template in the system to ensure it meet regulation requirement.
• Maintaining contract service providers required documentation.
• Keeping food safety documents up to date with any new / changes to materials (thru records and online systems).
• Assist Food Safety and Auditing team with scheduling on-site supplier visits for higher risk suppliers when approval is required.
• Validating existing supplier paperwork and documenting it internally for further reference by other teams.
• Communicating new material approvals and changes to all departments as required.
• Obtaining all necessary knowledge and training in supplier food safety and risk assessment as required by the industry, to stay current on all requirements.
• Updating all existing supplier’s paperwork and necessary audits on timely manner to ensure compliance to BRC audits as well as Wonder brands food safety programs.
• Assist the Quality Assurance department on all audits (BRC, Halal, RSPO, Organic etc.)
• Participate in cross-functional teams in the development of new supplier approval requests.
• Other duties as assigned.