Manufacturing Quality Assurance Lead

5 days ago


Ashford, United Kingdom Givaudan Full time

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Manufacturing Quality Assurance Lead - Fine Fragrance M/W/D

Concerning the objective of the function to assure the safety, compliance, legality and quality of our products, you will work largely unsupervised supporting the execution of the Quality Assurance, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Fine Fragrance Quality validation.

You will report to Head of Quality and Improvement.

Missions:

  • Manage and co-ordinate investigations into customer complaints and internal non-conformance.
  • Communicate and report on investigation findings to internal and external customers.
  • Be the single Point of Contact (SPOC) for communicating with partners.
  • Analyse and interpret CI/performance indicators/improvement project data, define and propose improvements. Complete approved actions.
  • Support the daily coordination of the Fine Fragrance Validation team.
  • Provide support to the QA Manager by performing analysis and interpretation/trending of reported data from multiple sources.
  • Lead and implement assigned actions related to quality assurance requirements.
  • Demonstrate and provide a good level of knowledge and interpretation of quality-related policies, standards, procedures, and requirements in daily work life (e.g., reviewing business processes, improvement projects, audits, meetings).
  • Provide quality-related training to the function.
  • Induction training and subsequent training for less experienced QA officers/internal auditors/staff in operations and all other site functions.
  • Provide guidance to your team regarding the update of their departmental manuals and procedures.
  • Promote quality principles and culture, being visible, walking the floor, participating in SOED/VPM meetings in multiple tasks.

Academic Background:

  • Vocational Diploma in an appropriate technical field.
  • University degree.

Professional Experience:

  • Overall work experience of 5+ years in a similar position.
  • 1 to 2 years of coaching experience preferred.

Technical Skills:

  • Experience using computer-based Management Applications.
  • Good level of understanding of the principles of Quality Management Systems (e.g., ISO 9001) and continuous improvement.
  • Knowledge of business processes in Operations and in other Site functions/businesses on Site (e.g., Manufacturing, distribution and Creation, Procurement, Sample/Application labs, Ingredients, Oral care, active beauty).

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate, and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions, and divisions. Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers, and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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