Job Description:

Entity: Royal Canin

Location: Aimargues ideally (30 min from Montpellier in France), or Cambrai (30 min from Lille in France), or Niepolomice (Poland)

Type of contract: 1 year mission to cover parental leave

The Raw material SQA Lead is the owner of the quality of his/her category in compliance with the Corporate Standards, the regulatory and food safety requirements and the need of continuously improve existing baseline. The regional Raw material SQA Lead supports the deployment of the Innovation roadmap and Influence the category strategy thanks to the connections that are developed with Suppliers and a clear vision of the quality opportunities and threats of the portfolio.

What will be your Key Responsibilities?

Develop extensive knowledge and experience to improve business partnering and leverage external capabilities:

• • Be the expert of a portfolio of raw materials and suppliers in the Region to support internal and external stakeholders
  • Assure quality, food safety, regulatory compliance, sustainability of the materials supplied to the manufacturing sites by implementing MQM Standard and its associated procedures (HRCI, UHBI, Moulds & Mycotoxins)
  • Assess and validate supplier capabilities to meet Mars & Royal Canin Standards and specifications through the material risk assessments, audits and deployment of qualification plans. The SQA Lead animates a cross functional team of regional, local or global stakeholders to guarantee best in class risk assessments.

• Practice excellence in quality:

  • Anticipate and manage effectively quality exceptions, non-conformances and complex problems to minimize business impact,
  • Represent not only his/ her portfolio but also his/her category in case of business critical event or escalation to senior leaders,
  • Identify opportunities and propose improvement of the existing processes and Standards in place to build knowledge of the company, demonstrate capacity to bring new perspective on existing solutions
  • Advise SQA coordinators and officers of the category when facing complex business issue

• Participate, Lead and/or drive projects to support and allow a sustainable business growth with the highest quality Standards (cross functional & cross regional scope):

  • Enhance the quality of our raw materials and our processes
  • Support the global SQA and Commercial strategy deployment in the Region, aligned with EU strategic roadmap
  • Deploy new raw materials to support Commercial and R&D strategies