Quality Assurance Manager

Career Opportunity:
Quality Assurance Manager – Northern Kentucky

Do you enjoy leading quality, compliance, and food safety programs? Are you detail-oriented, proactive, and able to build strong relationships with suppliers and internal teams? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Our client is a well-established, design-driven consumer products company that develops seasonal confectionery, gift, toy, and licensed products for major retailers nationwide.

As the Quality Assurance Manager
, you will oversee quality assurance, food safety, regulatory compliance, vendor quality programs, and audit readiness while partnering with cross-functional teams to support successful product launches.

• Lead quality assurance and quality control activities across products, suppliers, and contracted operations.
• Ensure compliance with FDA, BRC/GFSI, licensor, customer, and internal quality requirements.
• Manage vendor qualification, audits, inspections, corrective actions, and supplier performance monitoring.
• Lead HACCP, food safety, recall, and audit programs.
• Review new products, packaging, and product modifications to identify quality and compliance risks.
• Partner with Product Development, Design, Packaging, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and external suppliers to support successful product launches.
• Monitor changing regulatory requirements and communicate impacts to internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Supervise the Labeling Compliance Manager and QA Assistant.
• Lead investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives related to quality and compliance.
• Ensure quality standards are maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

• 3+ years of quality assurance, quality control, food safety, regulatory compliance, or related experience.
• Experience working with audits, supplier quality programs, AQL or other sampling methods, corrective actions, and compliance documentation.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, HACCP, BRC/GFSI, CPSC, ASTM standards, Proposition 65, or similar regulatory requirements.
• Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented, process-driven, and able to take initiative without waiting for direction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with vendors, auditors, and internal stakeholders while driving issues through resolution.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Access.
• Experience leading teams, projects, or compliance initiatives strongly preferred.
• HACCP and/or PCQI certification preferred.

$110,000-$125,000, commensurate with experience.

• Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, and additional employee benefits.
• Potential hybrid flexibility may be available after six months based on training progress and business needs.