Senior Manager Food

Your role

Are you passionate about building food safety standards and driving product quality? We are looking for someone with technical experience to drive food safety and quality compliance.

Our Food Safety & Quality Assurance team is recruiting and we are looking for an experienced and highly driven Food Safety professional to join our international team. You will work within a team based across Europe to drive food safety and quality compliance with our Red Meat suppliers, and work collaboratively with our procurement, sourcing, supply chain and distribution centre teams. The role will share best practice, create standardized ways of working, drive improvement in food safety & quality and lead on various strategic projects to ensure we delight our customers.

Your area of responsibility

• Perform on-site supplier visits and audits to manage their approval and drive strategic improvements in quality to decrease complaints and increase customer satisfaction
• Using your expertise, knowledge from industry and the supply base to develop best practice ways of working with your suppliers and internally
• Strategically manage supplier product quality and performance. Delivering focussed error (complaint) reduction initiatives and identifying projects that will improve our quality and safety standards
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
• Investigate and manage quality issues with suppliers to ensure customer availability and quality is not compromised with thorough root cause analysis and corrective action
• Ownership of your category area to achieve key performance indicators relating to out of specification deliveries, customer complaints, and compliance metrics
• Manage and coordinate the onboarding of new suppliers and products ensuring compliance to food safety, legal and quality standards

Your profile

• 4+ years of experience in quality and food safety management, ideally within the meat industry
• Experience in auditing food manufacturers; additional food safety qualifications (e.g. HACCP, internal auditing) are highly desirable
• Willingness to travel, including some international trips; 50% of time spent at suppliers, distribution centres and the base office
• Excellent English communication and negotiation skills; pragmatic in solving time-sensitive issues - German skills are a big plus
• Confident decision-maker who remains calm under pressure and in challenging situations
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multitask across competing priorities
• Comfortable working with cross-functional and international teams across HelloFresh markets (UK, DACH, France, Nordics, BNL); intermediate to advanced skills in Google Suite / MS Office

What we offer you

• Modern and comfortable working space with great co-workers in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Discount for HelloFresh boxes and Convini products 
• Development possibilities along with internal trainings and a yearly central Learning & Development budget for teams 
• Flexible working hours including Work From Home/Work from Abroad/Sabbatical Policy, as well as a home office set up budget
• Extensive Onboarding and Buddy Program
• Social events including team events, Friday beers, company runs, book club, etc.
• Discounted fitness offers with our Urban Sports Club and John Reed partners, as well as yoga classes
• Well-being initiatives in cooperation with Headspace and Spill
• Childcare and company pension scheme benefit
• Company pension scheme
• Monthly allowance for the Deutschlandticket

Are you up for a challenge?

Apply now with your complete application documents, also without a photo and without stating specific personal characteristics such as nationality or gender if you choose to do so. German or English language certificates and documents regarding residence and work permits are welcome.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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