Head – QA & NPD (Dairy)
Milk Mantra

Senior Leadership Role responsible for Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Research & Development, and New Product Development across all plants of Milk Mantra.

Position: Head – QA & NPD (Dairy)

Location: Gop, Konark(Main plant), Sambalpur & any new plant or upcoming 

Job Description:

• Lead and drive all Operational & QA compliance activities, ensuring products have the expected level of quality while maintaining the required standards.
• Ensuring compliance to guidelines given by FSSAI or any other applicable law/rule with regard to food safety/food processing / SOP in plant operations – procurement, processing, and sales as per FSSAI.
• Ensure all-time inspection readiness of operations, including preparation for regulatory inspections.
• Foster in doing the right things right-first-time culture across operations.
• Implement Quality management system and governance, propose and implement improvements
• Drive quality management improvements, review and analyze them on a weekly, monthly, and annual basis to identify trends

• Collaborating with the plant head and procurement lead to improve quality in operations – by proactively identifying and closing gaps in the process.
• Ensure consistency, standardization, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of approaches while always maintaining compliance with regulations and client expectations through continuous performance feedback and providing requisite training.
• Define, implement, monitor quality strategy and implement appropriate metrics relentlessly seeking and implementing best practices or any improvements
• Driving research and development across all product categories. In collaboration with cross-functional teams, research product ideas, determine feasibility, create prototypes, etc.
• Lead, manage, develop, and coach the team, fostering the right behavioral mindset.
• Closely interacts with all business functions to ensure effective contribution to achieving desired standards.

Experience/Skills required:

• Must have led large teams.
• Systems Thinking Approach
• Agility, problem-solving approach and end to end ownership are critical
• Partner with Businesses to provide and implement business solutions
• Bring in Industry Best Practices
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to effectively prioritize and manage a broad and demanding workload

Note: Candidates from Dairy Industry & Immediate joiners are preferred. The gross compensation offered will be the best in the industry and carry a performance-linked incentive.

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