Quality and Sanitation Manager

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Executive San Antonio, TX, US

About Us:

Finlays Solutions is a leading partner to the B2B beverage manufacturing industry, recognized for its deep expertise, strong industry relationships, and commitment to innovation. The company plays a central role in supporting beverage brands, flavor houses, private label partners, and manufacturers through high-quality products, technical capabilities, and collaborative problem-solving. With a strong presence in the ready-to-drink beverage market, Finlays Solutions focuses on identifying emerging opportunities, expanding into new market spaces, and delivering solutions that meet evolving customer and consumer needs.

Finlays Solutions operates with a strong commitment to its mission, values, ethics, and long ‑ term goals, ensuring that every initiative reflects the company’s dedication to integrity, partnership, and sustainable success.

Job Summary:

The Quality & Sanitation Manager is a senior leadership position, reporting to the Director of Quality Control, and part of the Senior Leadership Team on site. The position is accountable to deliver the Quality Management and Food Safety System for the site, through a GFSI-aligned certification. This includes a robust program comprised of quality assurance, quality control, quality improvement, customer and complaints management, non-conformance management and supplier non-conformance management.

The Quality Assurance Manager also provides support and governance of ethical certifications on site (Organic, Kosher, Halal, Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade) on site. The position leads implementation of and ongoing validation of a hygiene / sanitation program through management of the sanitation team and collaboration with external sanitation service providers. All this is achieved with strong people management and leadership skills and the ability to manage a budget.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Accountability on site for the Quality & Food Safety Management System, including:

• The development, implementation, execution, and improvement of quality systems, focusing on consistent quality, food safety, allergen management, food defense and fraud (authenticity), and aligned to a GFSI certification .
• The maintenance of external certifications for said Quality System and including other certifications such as consumer-focused qualifications (for example Organic, Fairtrade, RA) and religious qualifications (Kosher, Halal).
• The HACCP, and all prerequisite programs, ( or equivalent food safety) system that extends from raw materials and packaging materials, through to final packaged product .
• Acting as a member of the Food safety Team (or as the Food Safety Team Leader in cases where the Quality Specialist is in the process of acquiring this capability).
• Managing all internal management systems between the Quality and functional teams required to achieve this, such as documentation and record keeping, non-conformance management, including cost of non-conformance, customer complaints management, audit programs, incident management, and validation and verification programs.
• The management of customer quality and technical requirements, working collaboratively with Commercial to drive enduring partnerships with key, strategic customers, through well-defined and structured engagements.
• The execution of proper problem solving aligned with documented protocols that drive and support root cause investigations.
• Supporting the management of suppliers, third party co- packers and co-manufacturer partnerships.
• Supporting the regulatory and…