Global Head of Quality (m/f/d)

About Givaudan

Givaudan is a global leader in Fragrance & Beauty and Taste & Wellbeing. We celebrate the beauty of human experience by creating for happier, healthier lives with love for nature. Together with our customers we deliver food experiences, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. In 2023, Givaudan employed 16,260 people worldwide and achieved CHF 6.9 billion in sales with a free cash flow of 13.3%. With a heritage that stretches back over 250 years, we are committed to driving long-term, purpose-led growth by improving people's health and happiness and increasing our positive impact on nature. This is Givaudan. Human by nature. Discover more at www.givaudan.com

As the Global Head of Quality, you will be responsible for leading the Quality organization and overseeing the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure that customer quality expectations are met. You will manage nine direct reports and work together to facilitate improvements in the quality of our raw materials, intermediates, and finished products, as well as ensure a smooth ingredient lifecycle process.

This position is based in Kemptthal, Switzerland, and you will report to the Head of Global Operations Taste and Wellbeing.

In this exciting role you will:

• Lead the global Quality team, ensuring a healthy talent pipeline as well as high engagement and performance of all teams
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive internal, customer, and vendor quality policies and programs
• Foster globally networked technology expertise and implement global best practices
• Improve all quality-related processes based on a continuous improvement approach
• Explore and propose inspiring new ways of improving quality for our customers and consumers
• Encourage active best practice sharing within Quality, Givaudan, and insights from the external environment
• Provide the strategic link and voice of quality with key stakeholders

Your professional profile includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Quality, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related discipline
• Of advantage a Master's Degree in a Technical field
• Overall work experience of 20+ years
• Minimum 10 years of related experience
• Solid experience managing people and programs
• Deep Experience with all quality processes, including vendor quality, customer quality requirements, continuous improvement, complaint, issue and crisis management, audit, and change management
• Broad knowledge of order fulfilment, brief management, regulatory, and innovation processes
• Sound finance and business knowledge
• Experience with manufacturing technologies and product characteristics, such as liquids, spray drying, powder blending, process flavours, chemical synthesis, juice-based compounds, emulsions, separations, extractions, and distillations
• Strategic knowledge of IT systems, including Atlas, Athena, FPR, SAP, Compliance engine, PII, GSD, RMQ, QDMS, AVAP, and ILM
• Experience with Food Safety and Quality Systems, such as FSSC, AIB, ISO, GMP, GHP, and HACCP

Your benefits in Kemptthal:

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
• 40-hour working week, flexible working model
• Additional paid days off
• Favourable pension fund contributions
• Subsidized meals in the Staff restaurant / You benefit from a discounted catering offer (incl. lunch)
• Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site)
• Discounts at the company shop
• Free Staff Parking and Bike Badge
• Subsidized: REKA vouchers and SBB half-fare travelcard
• Complimentary beverages (tea, coffee, water)
• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital
• Worldwide private accident insuranceLunch at subsidized prices. Also, drinking water, tea and coffee are available free of charge at all locations

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