Supplier Quality Assurance Manager Indirects

Due to growth we are missing a special ingredient. Could it be you?

Step into a pivotal role at Intersnack and shape the future of Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) in Indirects, CAPEX and Facility management in addition to other categories. If you are the pioneering type, you thrive in dynamic environments, excel in developing SQA relationships, and bring expertise in quality, food safety, and sustainability, this could be a unique opportunity to make a difference on a huge scale!

Join an organization that values entrepreneurial spirit, teamwork, and your personal growth. Intersnack has become one of Europe’s leading savory snacks producers by creating ‘happy snacking moments’ in people’s lives. Successful and growing, our turnover in 2024 was over €4 bn. Privately owned, we operate our business with a long-term view and commit ourselves to a more sustainable world. We are a business with an extraordinary team spirit. We challenge each other to improve and we empower our people to take ownership of what they do. We know from experience that to become a big player, you must first master being a team player.

So, if you want a real career, choose to work where you will be appreciated and supported to grow.

Your BIG challenge as a Supplier Quality Assurance Manager

First and foremost: this is SQA pioneering on a truly magnificent scale! As we continue to extend the scope of our Supplier Quality Assurance team, consisting of 20+ multicultural professionals, we are creating this new position for an entrepreneurial SQA professional who can shape processes, as well as execute them efficiently. You will strengthen quality, food safety and sustainability with our suppliers, working in close collaboration and alignment with the Procurement Category Managers for categories such as Business Services, Facility Management, CAPEX, and MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Operations), amongst others.

You will evaluate suppliers, perform risk assessments and audit as part of our programs. You’ll be responsible for the approval and management of the suppliers in these categories, ensuring full compliance is reached. Where not fully defined yet, you will collaborate in the creation and amendment of standards, policies and programs in the Indirects area.

The Supplier Quality Assurance Manager Indirects will be part of the Vendor Assurance - Indirects & Logistics team and will be based in Zevenaar (The Netherlands), Cologne, or Düsseldorf (Germany). This role involves EU travel and international travel.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop the Indirects categories from a quality, food safety and sustainability point of view, in alignment with the Procurement Category Managers.

• Perform vendor assessment and vendor management according to our Intersnack procedures.

• Ensure compliance through risk assessments, vendor audits and vendor development.

• Support vendors to provide services and goods within agreed quality, food safety, technical and other standards, with compliance to social and ethical standards.

• Work with vendors in case of any non-compliance, eliminating root causes to prevent recurrence.

• Manage relationships with our factories to handle and resolve quality and food safety issues to reduce complaint levels.

• Collaborate with both Central and Factory engineering on equipment standards and opportunities.

• Identify and jointly implement potential initiatives for improvement that could result in competitive advantage for Intersnack as well as our vendors.

• Manage all Vendor Assurance systems and the data therein, ensuring information and documents stay up-to-date for your categories.

Develop the Indirects categories from a quality, food safety and sustainability point of view, in alignment with the Procurement Category Managers.

Perform vendor assessment and vendor management according to our Intersnack procedures.

Ensure compliance through risk assessments, vendor audits and vendor development.

Support vendors to provide services and goods within agreed quality, food safety, technical and other standards, with compliance to social and ethical standards.

Work with vendors in case of any non-compliance, eliminating root causes to prevent recurrence.

Manage relationships with our factories to handle and resolve quality and food safety issues to reduce complaint levels.

Collaborate with both Central and Factory engineering on equipment standards and opportunities.

Identify and jointly implement potential initiatives for improvement that could result in competitive advantage for Intersnack as well as our vendors.

Manage all Vendor Assurance systems and the data therein, ensuring information and documents stay up-to-date for your categories.