Quality Manager

**Function**: Quality**Reports to**: Supply Lead**Scope**: B&W Northlatam**Location**: Nuevo León, México.**Terms & Conditions**: Full time position. Currently live in Nuevo León or have immediate mobility to be transferred. Have a medium/high level of English.**ABOUT** **UNILEVER**:Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.**JOB** **PURPOSE**:Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. If you want to be part of Unilever´s history, as being part of the creation of a completely new site that has the expectation to be a state of the art and future fit factory, a model for other sites to reference both internally and externally, then this role is just for you**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES **BE**:Quality Manager leads the team responsible for implementation and enforcement of specifications, standards, and Quality Management System (QMS) for quality assurance and controls in alignment with Unilever standards and applicable regulatory requirements.**WHAT** **YOU** **WILL** **NEED** **TO** **SUCCEED**:Experiences & Qualifications- Experience building and leading high performing teams.- Experience participating in projects of new sites opening or similar (Desirable).- Capabilities: Digital, automation, agile, data & analytics capabilities,Business Acumen, Influencing.- Behaviors: Pioneering, empowerment, Owner´s mindset, Start-up mindset, Change and Talent catalyst, Servant and Inspiring leadership, D&I mindset.- Quality Systems Management.- FDA requirements experience- HACCP, Hygiene, Cleaning- Testing & Measurement- WCM & Continuous Improvement- Innovation & Change- Site experience in quality related category knowledge, understanding of requirements.- Experience with SAP QM and specifications in alignment with applicable requirements**Level** **of** **Education** **Needed**:- Bachelor’s degree required, Engineering, chemistry, biology or equivalent degree and experience.- Master’s degree (desirable)**MAIN **RESPONSABILITIES**:- Deploys UL Quality strategy and goals through site specific projects and targets.- Provides Quality leadership to influence Site Q culture through activities to create passion for products and brands, visibility for quality, and coaching of site leadership.- Builds quality and consumer safety skills and knowledge through coaching and training of factory team. Ensures Quality team has level of required skills and knowledge as appropriate to support site quality programs.- Builds Site Quality talent through recruiting, coaching, and training.- Ensures UL QMS is implemented locally to assure consumer safety and overall quality of the final product being manufactured.- Verifies compliance of site operations to UL QMS.- Enforces FDA and Health Canada requirements as defined by law.- Point person for internal and external Quality audits (UL, BRC, ISO, FDA, HC)- Supports savings initiatives by ensuring Quality is not sacrificed.- Drives waste reduction by focusing on Quality defects and non-conformances.- Be the champion for Quality pillar management-WCM with the purpose to increase the operating performance of the company and achieve better competitiveness.- Ensures complete, accurate and on-time submission of annual Quality Verification program self-assessment.- Develops, implements, and updates site HACCP plan and pre-requisite programs and ensures mitigation of consumer safety risks through HACCP validation and on-going verification.- Implements pre-requisite programs required to support site HACCP plan including validation and ongoing verification requirements (e.g., pest controls, allergen management, hygienic controls, etc.)- Ensures implementation and on-going compliance to requirements of category / technology GMP that are applicable to the site.