Supplier Quality Technologist

Supplier Quality Technologist

Thames (Optionally Hybrid 3 days office)

Director, Food Safety & Supplier Quality

The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar. The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy.

The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®. ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and food service product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane.

The Supplier Quality Technologist is responsible for ensuring that suppliers and purchased materials consistently meet company quality, food safety, regulatory, and compliance requirements. The role owns a designated category of raw materials, ingredients, packaging, or services and applies a science and risk-based approach to supplier management, performance monitoring, auditing, and continuous improvement.

Working closely with Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Quality, and New Product Development teams, the Supplier Quality Technologist helps protect consumers, safeguard the business, and support supply continuity by ensuring suppliers operate in compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) expectations.

• Own and manage an assigned category of suppliers, raw materials, ingredients, packaging, or services.
• Ensure suppliers and materials comply with applicable food safety, regulatory and customer requirements, including FDA regulations, GFSI standards and internal specifications.
• Risk assess each supplier and material combination in use within FCC, ASR and Ingredients Plus global manufacturing network and implement and appropriate and proportionate level of auditing, testing and other verification and monitoring activities as needed to protect operations from food safety, regulatory and functional risk of materials.
• Collect and maintain supplier quality and regulatory due diligence documents for all supplier and material combinations
• .Monitor and review supplier quality, food safety, regulatory compliance and performance metrics, identifying trends, risks and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs, Research & Development, New Product Development, Operations and Procurement teams to ensure supplier and material compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Represent the company when leading supplier audits, performance reviews, investigations and escalation meetings.
• Execute the Supplier Corrective Action Request program to investigate supplier-related quality incidents, material non-conformances and food safety concerns, ensuring appropriate containment and corrective actions are implemented.

• Experience working in a GFSI (BRC / IFS / SQF / FSSC
  22000) manufacturing environment, HACCP, & Food Safety.
• Experience performing audits of internal and external suppliers / manufacturing facilities
• Utilization of Quality Assurance systems and supplier corrective action programs
• Experience of working independently to influence others and achieve objectives within a framework of authorization

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline (e.g. Food…