Global Senior Quality Specialist - Viby

Location: Viby J, DK

Are you interested in joining an exceptional team that supports the organization with Quality Business Management? Are you proactive and passionate about establishing positive interactions and creating a valuable impact? If so, you could be the colleague we are looking for.

Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) is a global leader in improving premium nutrition. Together with our customers, research partners, suppliers, and others, we discover and deliver documented ingredients and products that can advance lifelong nutrition for the benefit of consumers around the world. AFI is committed to pioneering innovative solutions that set new benchmarks for quality, safety, and environmental responsibility.

Global QEHS is a department of 30 colleagues split into 3 teams; Business Quality Management, Product Quality Management, Supplier Quality Management & Compliance, and EHS. We work closely together both within own team but also across teams and with numerous stakeholders in Sales and at sites.

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Business Partner to join our dynamic team in Business Quality Management.

Your responsibilities
You can look forward to an exciting role with great variation in responsibilities and tasks.

• Quality and Food Safety Leadership – lead as the primary innovator for site quality teams, leading creative solutions to food safety and quality challenges.
• Crisis Management – participate in defined tasks related to local or global crises, ensuring innovative communication and resolution strategies in line with company procedures.
• Consultation in RCA/CAPA – offer expertise and consultation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes.
• Process Implementation – support local Quality teams in the reimagining and implementation of new global processes, methods, and systems related to Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Quality & Food Safety (Q&FS) strategy.
• Strategic Quality Projects – potentially lead strategic quality tasks, especially in cases of resource or competency gaps for specific problem-solving.
• Stakeholder Management – manage and nurture relationships with stakeholders through continuous feedback and innovative engagement strategies.

You can anticipate opportunities for travel, as this role may require approximately 30 days of travel per year.

What will make you successful
We expect you to have a master's degree in a relevant field such as Food Science, Quality Management, or Dairy Engineering. In addition, you should have some years of experience in quality, food safety, or food production.

You have innovative problem-solving and decision-making skills. It's important that you possess a strong independent drive and the ability to excel in informal leadership roles. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are a must – as these skills will help you in your creativity and collaboration across teams.

Naturally, you are passionate about ensuring product quality, food safety, and environmental stewardship through creative and forward-thinking approaches.

As Arla Foods Ingredients is an international organization, fluency in spoken and written English is a requirement.

Application and contact
If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please apply as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the right candidate is found. For additional information, please call. For additional information, please call Senior Manager for Business Quality Management Claus Tofting-Olesen at +45 9131 9556.

Together we discover and deliver powerful nutrition for a stronger tomorrow
Arla Foods Ingredients is a global leader in improving premium nutrition. Together with our customers, research partners, suppliers, NGOs and others, we discover and deliver ingredients and products that can advance lifelong nutrition for the benefit of consumers around the world.

While our factories may be packed with shiny steel vats, our labs look like something from the space program and our offices are awash in spreadsheets, we are a fundamentally human company with a genuine commitment to sustainability. By joining us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to shape your own development in a company that has seen double-digit growth every year for a quarter of a century. Read more about what it means to work with Arla Foods Ingredients: https://www.arlafoodsingredients.com/about/career/#career

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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