Assistant Quality Manager

Main purpose of the role

Project Golden Finger is a new project that will put Unilever Gulf at the forefront of the FMCG industry in the region. The Unilever Compass growth ambition is to double the business till 2020; requiring significant investment in the supply chain to deliver. Here comes a very challenging role to be on board of the team who will deliver this mega project.

Key Accountabilities:

Leadership, People, Culture & Linkage

• Deploys UL Quality strategy and goals through site specific projects and targets
• Provides Quality leadership to influence Site Q culture through activities to create passion for products and brands, visibility for quality, and coaching of site leadership
• Builds quality and consumer safety skills and knowledge through coaching and training of factory team
• Ensures Quality team has level of required skills and knowledge as appropriate to support site quality programs
• Builds Site Quality talent through recruiting, coaching and training
• Participates as lead for Site Quality in Quality meetings and forums as needed
• Participates as lead for Site Quality in virtual site network meetings and forums

Quality Systems Management

• Ensures UL QMS is implemented locally to assure consumer safety and overall quality of the final product being manufactured
• Verifies compliance of site operations to UL QMS and other applicable quality related requirements through program of internal audits
• Ensures complete, accurate and on‐time submission of annual Quality Verification program self‐assessment
• Ensures that Unilever and applicable external standards and requirements are accurately represented in local procedures and work instructions
• Reviews and analyzes site quality KPIs, loss trees, and data to understand quality performance and identify areas for improvement
• Ensures that site details for Inter‐Company Quality Agreements are provided to MCO receiving the product, as appropriate to product being sourced
• Ensures site maintains satisfactory standings and approvals for Unilever and applicable customer required audits / certifications
• Ensures site compliance with all local regulatory requirements related to consumer safety and product quality, and that ethnic and religious requirements are in place and maintained,
• Verifies traceability of materials, packaging and product aligned with UL and regulatory requirements and applicable consumer safety risks
• Ensures site utilizes SAP QM and specifications in alignment with applicable requirements
• Leads for site in product incident management situations linking with MCO Quality
• Implements and verifies procedures to control non‐conforming materials and products (e.g. dentification, segregation, disposition, reprocessing)

HACCP, Hygiene, Cleaning

• Develops, implements and updates site HACCP plan and pre‐requisite programs and ensures mitigation of consumer safety risks through HACCP validation and on‐going verification
• Implements pre‐requisite programs required to support site HACCP plan including validation and on‐going verification requirements (e.g. pest controls, allergen management, hygienic controls, etc.)
• Ensures implementation and on‐going compliance to requirements of category / technology GMP that are applicable to the site

Testing & Measurement

• Ensures quality of materials and packaging by implementing in‐take control program (e.g. processes to receive, inspect, sample and approve for use, produce & maintain required documentation, re‐control aged materials as needed, etc.)
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