VP- Global FSQA at OSI Group

As a premier global food provider, the OSI Group partners with the world’s leading foodservice and retail food brands to provide concept-to-table solutions that delight consumers around the globe.

Join us and discover a work experience where diverse ideas are met with enthusiasm, and where you can learn and grow to your full potential. We’re looking for individuals who thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and who enjoy working as a team to deliver unparalleled service and solutions to our customers.

The salary range posted represents the low and high end of OSI’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience and performance. Base salary is one component of OSI’s overall total rewards package. Other components may include bonuses, special pay programs, comprehensive time off, 401k with match and a full suite of benefit offerings for you and your family.

Position Summary

This role is a key to our Global Food Safety Quality Assurance function. This role is responsible for leading, developing, implementing, and maintaining food safety policies and programs across OSI’s Global operations, ensuring compliance with international regulations and industry best practices. This role oversees all Global FSQA programs to ensure that the company system products meet or exceed food safety standards, customer specifications, government regulations, and the company product standards.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Job supervises a team, has authority to hire and performance-manage a team.
• Job leads/supervises/manages 1-5 employees.
• Helps implement the strategic Food Safety Quality Assurance plan by providing input to create the plan.
• Helps design programs to support the strategic FSQA plan
• Leads the implementation and sustainment of the global FSQA programs.
• Ensures alignment of zone programs with global FSQA policies, programs, and standards
• Reviews and analyzes FSQA data to improve implementation and effectiveness of FSQA programs.
• Fosters food safety culture at all levels of the Global organization.
• Provides direction in all matters related to compliance with local, state and federal, and appropriate export market food safety regulations in multiple countries.
• Provides mentoring as applicable to Global manufacturing FSQA leaders.
• Serves as one of the company’s FSQA representative on customer, industry and government food safety teams.
• Delivers thorough timely and insightful analysis of trends and metrics on quality and food safety, performance outcomes to senior leaders.
• Identifies and effectively communicates to senior management time sensitive findings and information that could impact the company or its customers.
• Maintains effective relationships with food safety and quality leaders of our customers.
• This role has the responsibility to understand and places in practice appropriate safety procedures. This responsibility is achieved through education, training, use of protective equipment (as applicable) and by following safety policies, regulations, standards, and laws.
• Collaborate with other functional areas within OSI to ensure sound FSQA principles are incorporated into all processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of experience in related field is preferred.
• 5+ years’ experience at the Director level, leading leaders, in primary or further processing food manufacturing, preferably both.
• Significant working knowledge of multiple regulatory environments preferred
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office Suite Products.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects to a successful completion that is on time and within established budget.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with individuals at all levels within the organization and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to directly influence the work environment by creating a dynamic workplace that effects positive employee relationships as well as effective relationships within the team.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to drive results.
• Ability to operate on tight deadlines with multiple priorities that are subject to frequent changes.
  
  

Preferred Education

• MA/MS/MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• PhD is a plus.
• Recognized expertise in industry as a result of prior positions, professional publications and speaking engagements, membership on industry committees.
  
  

Work Environment

• Work can be performed within a manufacturing plant environment with noise, extreme temperatures, and significant movement of powered equipment, people and conveyor (may depend on the role).
• Work conditions are typical of an office & plant environment.
• This role requires 30% domestic travel.
• Position may require the physical agility of lifting up to 15 pounds
• Position may require frequent and/or infrequent of bending, squatting, pushing, pulling, stretching/reaching, use hands or fingers, talk, hear, feel objects, tools, controls and standing/walking on concrete flooring.
• Position may require the physical ability to stand/walk for Less than 4 hours.