• Develop and execute the Business Unit's global Food Safety and Quality strategy, aligning initiatives with overall business objectives and growth priorities.
• Establish governance processes that ensure consistent implementation of food safety and quality standards, policies, and best practices across all regions and facilities.
• Lead the harmonization of food safety and quality requirements across manufacturing sites, distribution operations, and supply chains.
• Drive continuous improvement through standardized audit programs, risk management processes, corrective actions, and management review systems.
• Champion digital quality initiatives and system optimization efforts to improve transparency, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.

• Ensure compliance with applicable global, regional, and local regulatory requirements, including FDA, EFSA, MAPA, Codex Alimentarius, and other relevant food safety regulations and standards.
• Serve as the executive lead for product recalls, food safety incidents, and quality-related crises, ensuring effective communication, risk mitigation, and corrective action implementation.
• Oversee internal, customer, regulatory, and third-party audits, ensuring timely resolution of findings and sustainable corrective actions.
• Lead enterprise risk assessment activities to proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate food safety and quality risks.

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, Quality Technology Centers, and other key stakeholders to ensure product quality, consistency, and compliance across the value chain.
• Establish and monitor global quality and food safety performance metrics and KPIs, providing actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance product quality, operational performance, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.

• Develop and implement a global Food Safety and Quality Culture strategy that strengthens employee engagement, accountability, and ownership.
• Partner with centralized functional teams to establish training and competency programs that build technical expertise and leadership capability.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on food safety culture maturity, organizational effectiveness, and improvement opportunities.

• Lead the development and execution of the global Supplier Quality Management program.
• Establish supplier qualification, approval, monitoring, and performance management processes.
• Partner with Procurement and Supply Chain teams to ensure supplier compliance with food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead supplier risk assessments and mitigation strategies for raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, and service providers.
• Strengthen supply chain resilience through proactive quality risk management and supplier performance improvement initiatives.

• Lead and develop regional Food Safety and Quality teams across multiple geographies.
• Foster collaboration among manufacturing facilities, laboratories, business units, and corporate functions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, regulatory authorities, certification bodies, and industry organizations.
• Serve as the organization's senior subject matter expert for food safety and quality.
• Influence and engage executive leadership to advance strategic food safety, quality, and compliance initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Quality Management, Microbiology, or a related technical discipline required.
• Master's degree preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience in Food Safety and Quality within protein, ingredient, agricultural processing, oilseed processing, food manufacturing, or related industries.
• Experience in low-moisture food manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site, multi-regional Food Safety and Quality programs within complex manufacturing environments.
• Enterprise-level Food Safety and Quality leadership experience required.
• Experience leading organizational culture transformation initiatives preferred.
• Proven experience engaging with executive leadership, regulatory agencies, customers, certification bodies, and industry stakeholders.

• Extensive knowledge of HACCP, preventive controls, food safety systems, quality management systems, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of food manufacturing operations, laboratory environments, and quality assurance processes.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to effectively influence and communicate across all levels of the organization, including executive leadership, customers, and regulatory officials.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, risk management, and change leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive results in a global, matrixed organization.

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