Supplier Food Safety & Quality Manager- Tech Center- Caldwell, ID

Supplier Food Safety & Quality Manager

This role will develop, implement and maintain food safety and quality systems to ensure that the items purchased by Global Potato conform to product, regulatory and customer requirements. This is a highly collaborative position that interacts with the development teams when ingredient functionality is being defined, sourcing is being defined and developed, and specifications are created and documented. This individual works with suppliers (i.e. ingredient, packaging, Co-manufacturers / Joint Ventures) by phone, email, or on-site visit to their location as appropriate, to clarify material requirements, assess capabilities, evaluate food safety risks / programs and verify quality systems are in place to consistently deliver and improve ingredient performance. This individual works across the Food Group Quality Assurance department and Simplot affiliates to share resources in global supplier development and management. This role is located at the Caldwell Technical Center but requires significant travel. Collaborates closely with R&D and Purchasing on compliance issues and addresses the technical aspects of compliance. Develops, implements and maintains the documentation of policies, procedures, specifications, compliance records and vendor correspondence so that it is accessible via Simplot Web based Supplier database system. Works with ANZ Food Safety & Quality supply chain and supports global supplier assessments and approvals.

Key responsibilities include :

• Conduct on site and remote supplier assessments to ensure suppliers have capabilities and management principles in place to consistently deliver safe products that meet attribute requirements for intended end uses and are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Manages subcontract assessments by means of close coordination with contractors as well as direct communications with 3rd party assessors.
• Develops supplier food safety and quality policies, procedures, data capture and documentation procedures and integrates them into the overall Food Group Quality systems program.
• Works closely with Innovation, Operations and Purchasing to translate material requirements defined by the development team for specific product application into objective criteria using standard methods & terminology whenever appropriate & collaborating with external and internal resources on development of new measures where standard methods do not exist.
• Manage food safety incidents and investigations. This includes performing root cause analysis and assisting suppliers with corrective action plans. Supports supplier withdrawals and recalls.

Typical education includes a Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4-year college or university or equivalent experience. Preferred food safety and quality focused. Relevant experience of 5+ years related experience and / or training is required. Required certifications include PCQI (preferred) and FSVP (preferred). Travel is expected to be about ~75% annual.