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Quality Assurance Professional -Supplier Quality at Mars Incorporated

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Chicago, Illinois





Job Description:

Do you have a passion for quality? Are you comfortable working independently and making decisions?

Do you enjoy finding ways to improve processes and helping others? Then this might just be the role for you!

Supplier Quality Assurance

You will be responsible to ensure that raw and packaging materials that meet/exceed the needs of the regional manufacturing sites and end-users. You will be responsible to build continuous supplier process improvement, identifying /executing cost improvement initiatives, assuring food/human/product safety, leading continuous quality improvement, and performing supplier site visits and audits. The role requires a passion for quality with a preference for functional expertise in food, organics and/or snack materials and ideally experience in Raw Materials.

The Supplier Quality Assurance role interacts extensively with the buying team, manufacturing, product, and commodity development functions with a special emphasis on deep functional knowledge within a unique commercial buying category (i.e., cocoa, fat/oils, peanuts, gum, colors, etc.).

What are we looking for?

Minimum Qualifications


  • BS degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Engineering or related technical field

  • 3 years of experience in a technical area such as R&D product development, quality systems, laboratory management, manufacturing, or engineering

  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time during peak season. Mostly regional travel within driving distance.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office


Preferred Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience with direct supplier chain quality management

  • 2+ years of experience on quality management

  • 5+ years of experience in a technical area such as R&D product development, quality systems, auditing, food safety, laboratory management, manufacturing, or engineering

What would your key responsibilities be?


  • Assures quality and consistency of raw materials and packaging supply within the region

  • Creates material risk assessments and supplier improvement plans

  • Works in partnership with Commercial Buying Team and Site-based Quality Services to identify and execute inbound material cost, quality, food safety and efficiency improvement projects

  • Manages all inbound supply risks including material security, quality, food/product safety and regulatory compliance

  • Performs supplier site audits and ensures completion of identified corrective actions on time

  • Communicates effectively with multiple internal customers in Commercial, R&D and Supply to drive the SQA agenda

  • Performs supplier performance reviews and manages supplier performance metrics


Decision Making Authority and Impact

  • Proper supplier risk assessment and food safety controls under the Supplier Quality Assurance function to directly prevent manufacture of adulterated product.

  • Product conformance to specifications and requirements

  • Management of raw material quality and safety issues including risks, root cause analysis and communications

  • Risk categorization of suppliers


Recommendations

  • Supplier-based quality system improvements

  • Prioritization of continuous improvement activities and resource allocation to achieve improvements

  • Inputs into global and regional Supplier Quality Assurance Strategy

  • Disposition of non-conforming product

  • Updates to raw material risk assessments and specifications

What can you expect from Mars?


  • The opportunity to learn, develop and take charge of your own career.

  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package.

  • To be respected and valued.

  • The Five Principles at the center of every decision

  • The opportunity to work cross functionally, add value and impact a better world for generations to come.

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