Quality & Food Safety Manager Finland

Job description

As a Quality and Food Safety manager you will play an important role in maintaining world-class Quality and Food Safety in agreement with company standards and applicable regulations as well as external requirements.

 

You will be a key player supporting the Quality and Food Safety agenda and driving the culture of quality. Your mission includes monitoring the execution on the market with relevant KPI’s, guarantee robust design to delivery process, drive actions and project, improve the experience of the existing portfolio and guarantee food safety compliance.  

 

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE:

·  Responsible for implementation, application and maintenance of the company’s quality and food safety system.
·  Guarantee quality and food safety compliance and performance according to internal and external requirements.
·  Represent quality and food safety in product development and implementation in local market, conducting risk assessments and validations.
·  Implement food safety standards at external partners according to risk analysis.
·  Manage quality non-conformities with factories, supply chain and other relevant stakeholders, coordinating resolution using root cause analysis and CAPA.
·  Ensure traceability and superiority throughout the supply chain.
·  Drive the quality and food safety culture with all stakeholders.
·  Support for contact with food safety authorities.

In order to be successful, you need to have:

·  Min. 3 years of professional experience in Quality and Food Safety with a degree in relevant field (MSc/BSc Food science, Food Safety, Pharmaceutical etc.) 
·  Fluency in English and Finnish.
·  Good expertise in quality management and compliance monitoring.
·  Good competence in process development, continuous improvement, and problem solving.
·  Digitally fluent, with good skills of Microsoft Office Tools. 
·  Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams, clients and other stakeholders locally and globally. 
·  Detail-oriented mindset with ability to maintain high level of accuracy and thoroughness.  
·  Pragmatic, agile and solution-oriented mindset.

Favourable if you have:

·  Experience in leading Quality and Food Safety in projects.
·  Experience from Dairy process and manufacturing.
·  Experience in certification process and audit management.

OUR BENEFITS

At Danone we strive to have variety of benefits across our region in Nordics & Baltics and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

·  Health insurance from first working day
·  ePassi Lunch & Flex benefit
·  Stay active with the help of Yearly Wellness Contribution 
·  One share for all allowing to become co-owner of Danone
·  Unlimited access to our online learning platform and other amazing opportunities for your professional development, like buddy program, trainings, workshops etc
·  Organization and Team events

And hey, want a snack? Feel free to grab a yoghurt in the fridge at the office – products available all day! 

 

About Danone

Danone’s mission is bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we believe to do so we need a healthy planet. We have more than 100 000 employees worldwide built on three business categories: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Specialized Nutrition and Waters who all strive for our vision One Planet One Health.

Danone Nordics & Baltics have 500 employees based in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Latvia and Lithuania. Our brand portfolio includes many trusted brands such as ProViva, Alpro, Activia, Actimel, YoPro, Nutricia and Aqua d´Or.

Also, did you know that as a B-Corp certified company, Danone meets the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability?

 

How to apply: 

You send in your CV and application in English by pressing "apply". Last day to send in your application is January 19th . Kindly note that the position may be filled before last application date since interviews are held continuously.

 

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability status.

 

Danone Finland Oy with its registered office in Helsinki (Siltasaarenkatu 8-10, Helsinki) is the controller of personal data disclosed in the profile and in documents submitted during the recruitment process.