QUALITY MANAGER I SUPPLIER

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.
Required Qualifications.
Bachelors degree in relevant discipline.
OR Relevant McCormick experience in a technical field while in pursuit of a degree could also be considered.
Certification or training focused on Quality and Food Safety for Supply Chain preferred: PCQI (or HACCP, based on region).
Certification or training within the Quality field preferred.
ASQ certification (CFSQA, CQE) or Six Sigma Green Belt for example.
Awareness of GFSI audit schemes.
6+ years.
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.
Excellence within Supplier, Operations, Customer, and Regulatory areas.
Continually uses Quality and Regulatory knowledge to improve competitive position.
Is connected to industry boards and external industry networks to increase internal awareness of trends and best practices.