Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

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We believe being healthy should not require tradeoffs. SCN Best Co is a leading innovator, developer and manufacturer of Vitamin, Mineral & Supplement (VMS), Over-the-Counter (OTC) and prebiotics/probiotics in enjoyable forms such as gummies, lozenges and chews. With over 50 years of excellence, our team leads the way in changing how consumers make healthier choices. With unique food science expertise and proprietary processes, we’ve pioneered many firsts.

Our passion to create new to the world products has guided and continues to be core to our mission of making health and wellness more enjoyable. Come join us and become a part of our winning formula!

The Senior Supplier Quality Specialist works cross-functionally with internal and external partners to ensure a compliant, harmonized Supplier Quality program is implemented and maintained. This position is responsible for supporting development of the SCN Best Co Supplier Quality Program and performing supplier qualifications, re-qualifications, and disqualifications, as well as supplier risk assessments, supplier conformance of raw ingredients, supplier audits, supplier performance, and maintaining supplier records.

• Execute processes, complete supplier electronic quality management system (eQMS) activities, and ensure compliance with SCN Best Co Supplier Quality Program requirements for all sites’ suppliers, third party labs, and service providers across the organization as part of a cross-functional, global team.
• Perform quality-related supplier activities including selection, qualification, re-qualification, disqualification, risk assessment (utilizing FMEA and HACCP methods), supplier corrective action requests (SCARs), performance scorecards, supplier criticality, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), Food Safety Plan, and Food Defense Plan across sites as part of daily activities.
• Participate in the supplier audit program, which includes developing and maintaining an annual supplier audit schedule and conducting audits of new and existing suppliers to ensure compliance with quality requirements, completing audit reports, and managing any audit corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to completion. Audits may be a combination of review, desktop, on-site, or outsourced to a third party to audit on behalf of the Company.
• Track and complete supplier re-qualifications on a routine basis. Disqualify suppliers as needed.
• Develop and maintain a professional quality-focused partnership with SCN Best Co suppliers.
• Develop and author document and change controls to create and update supplier-related documentation, procedures and records from selection through disqualification. Reflect current internal practices, regulatory changes, and incorporate industry best practices.
• Monitor supplier metrics and performance through the maintenance of supplier scorecards and analyzing data and trends to identify systemic issues. Collaborate with suppliers on improvement initiatives. Collaborate and review supplier performance with the internal cross-functional teams involved with supplier management.
• Liaise and participate in the SCAR process, ensuring timely resolution of quality issues to prevent recurrence.
• Work with suppliers to develop supplier quality agreements.
• Train peers on assigned job tasks and train employees cross-functionally on utilizing the Supplier Quality Program to maintain compliance.
• Provide subject matter expertise of the Supplier Quality program in investigations, deviations, complaints, external customer, certification, and regulatory audits and inspections.
• Travel (up to 50%) to perform supplier audits, qualification, re-qualification, certification, collaboration and maintain onsite presence.

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, chemistry, food science, engineering, or related field.
• 5 years’ professional quality or regulatory experience within the food & beverage, dietary supplement, medical device, or pharmaceutical industry.
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