Flowers Foods

VP of Quality and Food Safety

Flowers Foods • $165K — $170K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Food & Beverages
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of progressive experience in quality management within food manufacturing or CPG companies
  • Extensive experience with quality controls
  • Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or a related field
  • Master's degree preferred
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing Quality and Food Safety team
  • Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to achieve quality objectives
  • Develop and communicate the Quality and Food Safety strategy and vision
  • Oversee enterprise-wide food safety systems, including HACCP/HARPC plans
  • Identify and mitigate quality and food safety risks during crises
  • Establish and monitor company-wide Quality performance metrics
  • Ensure compliance with FDA, FSMA, and GFSI-benchmarked standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and medical benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement savings plan
  • Professional growth and leadership training
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave
Full Job Description
Full-time employees are offered the following benefits:
  • Comprehensive health and medical benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement savings plan
  • Professional growth and leadership training
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave


Benefits may vary depending on your work location.

Bringing Home the Dough

The VP of Quality and Food Safety provides strategic leadership and guidance for the corporation's quality program in a multi-state, multi-facility environment. Responsibilities include developing, improving, maintaining, and refining the Corporation's quality standards and programs to ensure the manufacture of products that meet/exceed our customers' and Flowers' expectations, as well as promoting Quality throughout the organization. The VP of Quality and Food Safety has authority to connect with plants, warehouses, offices, etc. to promptly rectify all non-compliance issues. The role requires a leader who has the vision, energy, and passion for Quality, to see opportunities and inspire others to succeed by motivating, attracting, and retaining top talent, including developing others in the Quality area of the organization into positions with greater responsibility.

Rising to the Challenge: Position Responsibilities
• Leads, develops, and mentors a high-performing Quality and Food Safety organization while serving as the company's subject matter expert on quality, food safety regulations, industry trends, and best practices
• Partners with executive leadership and cross-functional teams - including Supply Chain, R&D, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, and Marketing - to ensure quality and food safety objectives are achieved
• Develops and communicates the overall Quality and Food Safety strategy and vision for the organization, establishing goals, standards, and priorities aligned with business objectives
• Overall enterprise-wide food safety systems, including HACCP/HARPC plans, Preventive Controls, internal audits, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Identify and mitigate quality and food safety risks while providing leadership during crisis responses, product recalls, market withdrawals, and other critical quality events
• Establish and monitor company-wide Quality performance metrics, driving continuous improvement, defect and waste reduction, and a culture of zero-defect excellence
• Ensures compliance with FDA, FSMA, GFSI-benchmarked standards (i.e. BRCGS, SQF), company policies and procedures and all applicable federal, state, and local regulations
• Perform other duties deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, and other applicable operating rules, policies, and procedures

Knead to Know: Preferred Qualifications
• 10-15 years' progressive experience in quality management with a food manufacturer or other CPG company
• Extensive experience with quality controls
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Additional Ingredients: Essential Job Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology or related field
• Master's degree preferred

Salary Range- 165000 -170000

We offer a competitive salary up to $170k and an excellent total rewards package. Interested job seekers who successfully complete the series of pre-screening questions and who appear to possess the basic qualifications for this position may be contacted for a telephone interview.

About Flowers Foods

Flowers Foods, Inc. is a producer and marketer of packaged bakery products. The company operates in two segments: Direct-Store-Delivery (DSD) and Warehouse Delivery. The DSD segment produces fresh breads, buns, rolls, tortillas, and snack cakes that are delivered to retail and foodservice customers directly. The Warehouse Delivery segment produces frozen breads, rolls, and snack cakes that are sold through customers' warehouse channels. The company's brands include Nature's Own, Wonder, Tastykake, Dave's Killer Bread, and others. Flowers Foods was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.
Learn more about Flowers Foods
Size
8,900 employees
Market Cap
$6.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$152.3 million
Founded
1919
5 Year Trend
+2%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ

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