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Quality Assurance Manager

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of all internal Quality Assurance plans and programs necessary for the relevant markets Nutreco serves, contributing to the realization of organizations' goals and objectives. This is achieved by safeguarding the desired internal and external quality levels of products and processes and services (meaning full regulatory compliance with Food Safety and Food Defense standards for manufactured products and feed ingredients) and retaining all relevant certificates required in order to meet global and local standards and schemes.

He/she provides leadership and direction in the area of Quality Assurance and manages and develops a team of QA staff to ensure the required standards in quality assurance/quality control targets are met. Quality management is focused not only on product/service quality, but also on the means to achieve it. The Quality Assurance Manager directs an entity's inspection and testing programs, as well as its proactive quality assurance procedures designed to prevent defects and/or improve performance.

In pursuing these objectives, he/she manages the department's employees and interacts with other managers and staff in departments that run processes where quality is an important dimension (e.g. production, research, supply chain, etc.). The Quality Assurance Manager consults with the entity's other departments, such as supply chain, production, sales, and may communicate with customer's or supplier representatives. The scope of the Quality Assurance Manager is mostly an OpCo with one or more production site/production lines, but not exclusively.

More senior QA/QC management roles may cover a wider area. Quality Assurance management roles also exist in Supply Chain, Sales and in Innovation (R&D)

Quality Policies and Programs:

o Develops, implements, monitors, maintains and improves the quality policies and the quality control, HACCP and Food Safety/Food Defense and similar programs, in coordination with the manager(s) of production, supply chain and other relevant areas, according to the relevant internal and external global and local standards, in order to ensure an adequate quality assurance system by which the certificates are retained.

o Prepares improvements to the quality policy, tracks developments on quality and includes these in the policy, in accordance with internal and external standards and divisional/group QA/QC policies.

o Oversees, guides and delegates Quality Assurance Laboratory Programs at all (production and other) facilities to ensure they meet company and customer requirements, ensures overall communications of the Quality Assurance requirements to the appropriate personnel both internally and externally to facilitate seamless business operations

Quality Systems / Certificates and Continuous Improvement:

o Establishes and maintains the quality management system in which all procedures and process descriptions are defined according to the requirements of the relevant standards and schemes within the organization so that understanding the processes and division of responsibilities arises and continuous quality can be guaranteed and the relevant certificates are retained.

o Drives continuous improvement processes in the organization, promoting and supporting improvement processes and actions with expert advice, tools and guidance. Conducts risk based assessments/improvement programs to minimize impact of any process and product deficiencies

o Liaises with relevant departments, collects data, relevant for the quality systems, from departments and ensures that all data included in the quality systems are up-to-date

o Oversees the maintenance and upgrading of agreed business essential certifications for the facilities and ensures any review includes all new requirements.

Quality Control:

o Drafts and ensures compliance with the procedures for the implementation of quality control of incoming and manufactured goods and in-process controls, in accordance with the organization guidelines and relevant standards and schemes. Similarly, with…