Supplier Quality Assurance Manager

We are missing a special ingredient. Could it be you?
Are you a quality assurance professional with a passion for travel? Do you have a strong desire to work in an energetic and positive environment where your ideas, expertise and cooperative spirit can make a huge difference? Then this could be a great job for you! With a turnover of nearly €4,2 billion, we are one of the largest snack producers in Europe and the market leader in nuts. Being privately owned, we can operate our business with a long-term view and commit ourselves to a more sustainable world. Intersnack Procurement manages the purchasing portfolio for the entire Intersnack Group. Our Supplier Quality department has a vacancy for a Supplier Quality Assurance Manager with an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong drive for quality. Could this be you? Please read on, this could be one of coolest position in quality you will ever encounter!

Your BIG challenge as a Supplier Quality Assurance Manager
You will manage all flexible packaging materials or nuts from a quality, food safety and technical point of view. This includes primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging. You will become responsible for the approval and management of the suppliers in these categories. It is key for this position to ensure that all packaging materials comply with legal, customer and company requirements and actions are taken towards suppliers and internal stakeholders in case of any non-conformance. As the jobholder works closely within a network of suppliers, buying managers and other internal stakeholders, relationship management skills and business acumen are crucial skills.
This role can be based in Düsseldorf / Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Zevenaar, in the eastern part of The Netherlands, or in Slough, close to London and involves international travel, mainly within Europe.

Your responsibilities as our Supplier Quality Assurance Manager:

• Execute Intersnack’s Procurement Supplier Quality Assurance program by ensuring that all legal, food safety, technical and social requirements of the Intersnack Group are met by our Packaging material supplier base.

• Maintain, update and communicate the Food Safety Risk analyses of our Packaging materials and ensure that all Intersnack Group factories are guarded against industry hazards.

• Lead and execute the Supplier Audit scheme, so all Packaging supplier audits are completed as per required timelines, supplier audit non-conformances are actioned and closed.

• Manage supplier non-conformities, perform trend analysis, identify trends, and determine/ implement corrective actions.

• Lead complex and fast-paced packaging material categories, with high numbers of suppliers and items, ensuring supplier compliance, data system integrity and stakeholder communication.

• Contribute to the Packaging material Categories' sourcing strategy on a technical level and be one of the gatekeepers, primarily ensuring Food Safety, but also an impeccable supply chain to our factories on operational level.

• Support Intersnack factories during certification audits (e.g. AIB, BRC, IFS).

We are entrepreneurial industry leaders, what should be your qualities?
First you have a positive mindset and a strong personality! Working should be fun and rewarding and you are a contributor to a positive atmosphere. You are analytical, you see the bigger picture, prevent problems instead of letting them "happen" to you. Respectful, sustainable, and mutually beneficial collaborations are the starting points for you in your work. When working with others to solve a problem, you know how to flawlessly switch between the proverbial “carrot” and “stick”.

Besides the above, we ask:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Packaging Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Food Science or similar;
• At least 2 years of experience in (Supplier) Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Vendor Assurance, packaging technologist/expert or similar role in the packaging industry;
• Work experience within flexible packaging materials is advantageous;
• Preferably qualified lead auditor or proven experience in quality auditing, with attention to detail;
• Flexibility and willingness to travel internationally, mainly within Europe;
• Attention to detail, organization skills, action orientation, drive for results;
• Experience in multicultural, cross functional organizations;
• Fluency in English;
• Ability to deal with ambiguity;
• Valid driving license.

We ask a lot, but offer you even more!

First, a great working environment with many driven and positive colleagues who really want to team up with you. We are a very healthy company and that means that there is always room to support good ideas. Our location and workplaces are modern and optimally facilitate pleasant working conditions. Working from home and flexible working hours are possible in agreement with your team. We also offer you a permanent appointment if you perform well. In addition, Intersnack naturally offers you a good salary and excellent fringe benefits, such as:

• Good study facilities;
• Telephone with private use;
• Conditional bonus scheme;
• 30 days of leave;
  
• Depending on your preferred location local benefits around travel, working from home and holiday allowance, as well as a pension scheme

Intersnack: an international player with strong brands
Intersnack Procurement is part of the international Intersnack Group with offices throughout Europe. We are continuously growing. The international headquarters of Intersnack Procurement is in Zevenaar. From Zevenaar and our hub sites in Düsseldorf / Cologne, DE and Slough, UK we manage the entire purchasing portfolio of the Intersnack Group. You've probably enjoyed some of our products; we produce savory snacks and crunchy popcorn as well as nutritious nuts and creamy peanut butter. We produce, package, and sell these products under brand names such as Chio, POM-BÄR Tyrrell’s and KP, but also under private labels for retailers. We also supply semi-finished products to the food industry.

We are not listed on the stock exchange, which means that we can be very entrepreneurial and can develop a long-term strategy. We are a large European leader in our industry, yet remain entrepreneurial, flexible, and personal. That is also part of what makes us Intersnack; the atmosphere is pleasant, everyone knows each other, communication lines are short, and you get a lot of responsibility. So, it is not surprising that long employments and interesting career paths are a rule, rather than an exception. Our official language is English, in line with our very international character.

Do you want to respond or just want to know more?
Call Dustin, his number is 06-42497257, he can tell you all about Intersnack Procurement, the job and what it is like to work here. The real story, of course, so that together with you, we can make a good assessment whether Intersnack and this job is the right opportunity for you.

Please upload your application documents in English only! PLEASE NOTE: for non-EU applicants, a valid work and residence permit is a prerequisite for this post.

Acquisition as a result of this position is not necessary, we would like to get in touch with interested candidates directly.