THE OATLY WAY

Oatly is a company built on the idea of change. Our mission is to help people upgrade their everyday lives and the health of the planet by making tasteful oat-based food products accessible to a wider audience in a world-class manner. It's why we come to work every day. With head office in Malmö and production in Sweden, Netherlands and the US, our products are available in almost 30 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

As a Quality manager one of you passion must (is)developing. This role contains develop, maintain and continuously improve the sites day-to-day and long-term Quality and Food Safety systems, maturity, standards and internal quality audit programs. To support the site in managing complaints, issue and incident prevention and investigations, gathering data and work with preventing improvement activities will also be apart of your work. You need to ensure that applicable laws and regulations, external and internal requirements on the operations are fulfilled and maintained.

Other aspects of the role is continuous collaboration with management, leaders and global colleagues as relevantwithin the framework of our operating model, ongoing projects and improvement initiatives.

The typical day to day will involve:

• Coach indirect reports to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills needed to provide coaching to the Operational teams within the area of food safety and product quality.

• Provide expert advice to the Leadership Team and their teams, ensuring a continuously high standard of Quality and Food safety standards are met.
• Be the site’s expert resource in terms of the specifications for both “Oat-base” and finished product, as well as for consumer issues regarding food safety and quality.
• Suggest and facilitate the delivery of local strategic quality objectives (KPI) and strategy to reduce employer liability claims, safeguard alignment with market and Global
• Develop and suggest priorities and robust action plans that prevent, reduce and where necessary investigate quality complaints.
• Facilitate the delivery of local strategic quality objectives
• Continued development of an on-going strategy which is aligned with Regional and Global requirements.
• To be accountable to the customer for keeping Oatly’ s promise that their products will always be safe, legal, authentic and of the specified quality.
• Actively work with and help manager build a quality culture.

WHO YOU ARE

The role also implicate leading with a continuous improvement-based culture. With this we know that you have experience of engaging and managing teams of people – can coach people to be at their best! And to find their own solutions and creates a safe and inclusive environment we know you can do so. You want to facilitate collaboration that supports alignment, creativity and results in your team.

To thrive and be happy in this role, we believe that you have the following qualifications and experience:

• Job specific education: Food Microbiology, Food Chemistry, Biology or related field
• Formal auditing qualification is preferable
• Actively keep up to date on new standards and legislation
• 10 years of job specific experience in a Food Safety/Quality specialist role
• Understanding of both HACCP (minimum Level 4) and the BRC Standard
• Knowledge of CIP systems, COP and Facility Sanitation Standards
• BRC/ISO 22000 and other Regulatory Audits
• Project Management
• International experience of collaboration
• Understanding of quality programs such as six sigma, or Leanmanufacturing andwork experience with Statistical Process Control
• IT competence (Word, Excel, Power Point; Outlook)
• ERP system (D365)
• SHE Management systems
• Fluent in Swedish and English (oral and written)

YOUR APPLICATION

We value diversity and inclusion and welcome people from all backgrounds who see sustainability and health as important values. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, let’s do this together! It will be fun!

Apply no later than 18th of June.

We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested, please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there. This will ensure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone!

THE OATLY WAY

Oatly is a company built on the idea of change. Our mission is to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources. It's why we come to work every day. With head office in Malmö and production in Sweden, Netherlands, China, Singapore, and the US, our products are available in almost 30 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Love Oatly xxx

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