Quality Regulation Manager

Lead and manage all activities related to supplier quality across Panda’s supply base (local and international). Ensuring that suppliers consistently meet Panda’s Quality, Food Safety, and Regulatory requirements from selection and approval through continuous performance monitoring and improvement.

• Manage Government Regulatory Compliance and control systems to ensure compliance to regulatory and legislation requirement (e.g. Municipality/ SASO/ SFDA etc.) and align guidelines with main stakeholders.
• Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and oversee control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal and regulatory guidelines with main stakeholders from Commercial, Operations and Quality team.
• Collaborate with GR departments to monitor enforcement of standards and regulations and set a plan for timely compliance projects with the concerned department.
• Supports Panda’s future projects to identify possible compliance risks and act as a governance role to ensure adherence to regulations throughout the projects.
• Keep abreast of regulatory developments within or outside of the company as well as evolving best practices in compliance control.
• Communicate all new circulations from regulatory authorities to the concerned departments and ensure compliance on time to avoid any violations of legal or regulatory guidelines.

Lead and manage all activities related to supplier quality across Panda’s supply base (local and international).

Ensuring that suppliers consistently meet Panda’s Quality, Food Safety, and Regulatory requirements from selection and approval through continuous performance monitoring and improvement.

Drive the Supplier Qualification, Classification, and Performance Management Framework to secure safe, compliant, and high‑quality products for customers.

Non‑conformity System.

Handling the Non‑conformity system to document, track, and elevate critical quality issues that may cause risk to the business by identifying root‑causes and addressing the right CAPAs.

Manage non‑conformity system and ensure that the non‑conformance management process functions effectively, and that all necessary guidance and training is available.

Evaluates incoming food alerts and recalls and assesses the impact to the business and/or its impact to determine the actions needed in response to internal or external notices.

Define and build a solid foundation of a Quality‑Assured Project Management that will be highly recognizable and relevant throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Support assigned projects (Functional and Organizational Level) with the respective Department to ensure that projects are executed according to the agreed SLA.

Participate in New Product Introduction (NPI) and project team activity as required, to ensure that specifications are updated and reviewed, and that the product complies with Panda's standards.

Oversee the development of Good Product Practices to ensure that products are safe and of the requisite quality for store availability.

• Supplier auditing and Lead auditor training.
• Risk assessment and classification modelling.
• Knowledge in Process and procedure analysis, development, and improvement and QMS.
• Knowledge of local and international food safety standards (HACCP, ISO, AIB, BRC) and Saudi regulatory authorities’ standard requirements.