Quality Account Manager
- Location:
-
Leeds (LS10) jobs
- Salary:
- £competitive.
- Company:
- ARLA FOODS
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 21/11/2009 18:05
- Job id:
- 45842859
- Contact:
- The Recruitment Team
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/HO/QAM02
At Arla Foods, our natural passion for new technology plays a vital part in how we strive to grow our business and bring our consumers closer to nature. As the energy of our business, you combine a technical, engineering mindset with quality orientation and a desire to head our continuous evolution. Be a force of nature.We are currently looking for a Quality Account Manager to join our technical team in Leeds.
Key responsibilities are
·Ensuring that the Arla Brand and customer product specifications are completed accurately, approved and issued in a timely manner.Assess legal compliance of artwork and advertisement materials.
- To conduct supplier assurance audits to ensure that both Arla Foods Plc and Our customers Quality standards and codes of practice are met.
- To ensure that all non-conformances raised in customer audits are recorded, agreed, followed up and closed out to a satisfactory conclusion.
- To ensure customer technical queries and problems are answered and resolved to enable a permanent and satisfactory conclusion.
- To prepare and update the supplier assurance audit schedule.
- To maintain the up keep of Arla Foods European and third party supplier quality assurance database.
Liaise with Global Purchasing to ensure ingredient and packaging supplier information is complete and adequate to fulfil customer and BRC requirements
Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience working in a technical role at managerial level within the dairy or food related industry either in Operations, Quality or engineering disciplines.
- Must have a sound knowledge of food manufacturing, processing techniques and auditing.
- Knowledge of Quality Management Systems, laboratory methods and Good manufacturing practice.
- Desirable
- Technical experience working with Major Retailers.
- Technical experience working with European factories/Suppliers.
- Technical Auditing of European Suppliers
You must be educated to at least degree level in a food science or related discipline Experience of Food Legislation and Retailer Specification Systems would be an advantage.