About the role

Vice President of Quality and Food Safety overseeing quality initiatives at Ventura Foods. Leading efforts to ensure compliance and quality across multiple plants in North America.

Responsibilities

Leads the efforts to enhance, communicate change, and maintain company Quality and Food Safety prerequisite programs, such as GMPs, SSOPs, and other programs.
Directing the efforts of the Regional Quality Managers enhances and drives the transition of our HACCP program to HARPC and pushes the quality culture throughout the organization.
Leads and sets direction for Plant QA organization to ensure the manufacturing of quality and food safe products that meet our customer expectations. This includes oversight and improvement of sanitation and quality control practices.
Provides oversight and direction for all food regulatory matters including Crisis Management and Recall/Retrievals.
Provides guidance and direction to management regarding regulatory compliance, responses, and actions to organization and/or agencies.
Collaborates cross-functionally, educates, and trains staff, operations management, and leadership to ensure compliance to Ventura Quality and Food Safety system Prerequisites.
Develops and maintains a Quality Systems and Food Safety strategy as it relates to auditing. This includes developing internal skills and competencies and maintaining programs for external 3rd party audits.
Manages group and budget. Working with HR, develops staff skills and competencies to ensure career pathing and maintaining Ventura Foods knowledge base for Food Safety, Quality Systems, and Regulatory compliance.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required
15+ years Quality, Food Safety, Regulatory or related field experience in leading multi-plant quality or food safety operations is required
10+ years of management with progressive people and programs experience is required
Executive-level communication across diverse audiences is required
Proven success in building and holding accountable high-performing teams, along with change management is required
Strong knowledge of FDA, USDA, and international food safety regulations is required
Ability to travel up to 30% in North America is required
Systems: ERP (JDE), Redzone, SharePoint
Bachelor's focused in a technical science emphasis highly desired
Advanced science focused degree strongly preferred
Food or pharmaceutical manufacturing quality experience highly desired
Knowledge in sanitation, and regulatory compliance is helpful

Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
Employee Appreciation Events
Employee Assistance Programs