Supplier Quality Manager

Role Summary:

Reporting to the global or regional Supplier Quality leader, the Supplier Quality Manager

executes, implements, maintains and improves the Supplier Quality Program for their determined region and/or supply base through engagement, assessments, and food safety and quality systems leadership. For low to medium risk suppliers, this individual will collaborate with Procurement and the Global Supplier Quality CoE to ensure our suppliers and contract manufacturers meet the requirements and work globally where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support of McCormick stakeholders in selection, development, and/or maintenance of Suppliers, Co-Mans, Licensees.
• Communicate quality and food safety risk to vendor/supplier/procurement and be the point person for your assigned suppliers. Participate in supplier onboarding, development, maintenance, improvement, and disqualification processes.
• Lead an incident workstream, complaint investigation, claims.
• Analyze supplier data to develop actionable insights and communicate technical information to internal cross functional partners
• Assess and identify potential Quality and Regulatory risks within identified area and lead mitigation efforts. Understand internal and external Quality and Regulatory risks and failures in identified area of focus to identify opportunities for resolution. Communicate risks to appropriate stakeholders.
• Participate in risk prioritization countermeasures, based on risk tolerance, severity, and probability of occurrence.
• Reinforce Quality Culture and development by sharing industry trends, supplier best practices, and quality systems that have been observed and align with our functional competencies for growth.

Desired Skills/ Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in relevant discipline.
• Experience in one Quality focus areas (Customer, Operations, Regulatory, Supplier, Global CoE) or related function, including Supply Chain, Product Development preferred.
• Experience in the Food/Flavor Industry preferred.
• Decision Making: Make decisions for identified supplier base using the Quality and Regulatory Standards. Use the escalation process where the standard does not apply or exist using cross functional team and/or external input.
• Financial Acumen: Understand and execute a standard approach of maintenance of key financial topics, including: Travel and expense, Waste, Scrap, IAR.
• Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory Culture, Programs, Standards: Monitors and understands Quality and Regulatory best practices and developments. Supports internal, end-to-end Quality and Regulatory.