Quality Manager

Raw Materials / Ingredients QAM.
Monday to Friday office hours.
To 37k, 33 days holiday, bonus, healthcare plus benefits.
Overview:
A new and exciting role has arisen within our technical department.
The Raw Material QA Officer is responsible for ensuring all raw materials and their supply chains are appropriately approved for use by the company/site through risk assessment, monitoring, verification and ongoing assessment.Within your role you will be a key point of technical contact with the supplier base, developing working relationships. You will ensure appropriate documentation and evidence is in place to meet due diligence requirements, customer, regulatory and third-party standards for safety, quality, legality and authenticity of raw material and their supply chains.
Responsibilities
Maintenance of approved raw material and supply chain list
Management of live specifications database for all raw materials and packaging
Refresh, review and sign off all raw material and packaging specifications.
Risk assessment of new materials and supply chains, once approved via the NPD process and interim assessment by Raw Materials Assurance Manager
Establishing intake acceptance criteria for raw materials
Maintaining raw material micro/compositional analysis schedule, review results, corrective action to out of specification results
Raw material replacement assessments

compliance with customer specification, policies, and standards
Advising on raw material shelf-life extension system daily actions
Participating in assessments to maintain legality, safety, quality, and authenticity.
Accountability for day-to-day queries regarding live materials and supply chains
Provision of supply chain and raw material data in audits, challenges, crisis situations
Raising, coordinating, and closing out non-conformance investigations with suppliers with site visits where applicable
Maintenance of due diligence records for raw material and supply chain assurance policy compliance
Packaging compliance approvals, maintaining records.
Completion of timed traceability challenges back to suppliers
Horizon scanning for emerging issues which potentially impact materials used by the site.
Maintain vulnerability and integrity assessments and mitigations programme.
Assessment of integrity status and establishing mitigations programme
Intake inspection of raw materials in absence of Intake QA
Sign off High-Risk intake checks e.g. C of A verification etc.
Provision of supplier data to support Export documentation process.
Job Type: Full-time

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