Regional Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Lead

Posted 15hrs ago

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Canada Food Safety Quality and Regulatory POD Lead providing safety leadership across plants in Canada. Collaborating with stakeholders for quality and regulatory compliance while driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide food safety, quality and regulatory leadership for a group of plants in a sub region or hub
  • Partner with stakeholders across the country and with regional colleagues to create alignment on strategy and processes
  • Drive continuous improvement across the region and participate with corporate leadership to drive continuous improvement of corporate policies and procedures
  • Assist in the creation of the FSQR strategic and tactical business planning for the NA region
  • Lead and develop the team's talent pipeline through succession planning, performance management, coaching, mentoring, and the hiring process
  • Analyze, review and interpret external regulations and customer and supplier standards
  • Implement the necessary policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations for the Canada POD
  • Build and maintain leadership and key stakeholder partnerships with cross-functional teams to promote an integrated safety and quality culture
  • Independently facilitate resolution to highly complex issues and proactively anticipate risks and implement preventative action or mitigation plans as applicable
  • Support the development and escalation of new innovations, continuous improvement and process maintenance initiatives
  • Support the Canada and broader NA Regions base and non-base capital to maintain and improve the food safety management systems and product safety.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience in the areas of food safety, quality assurance and regulatory affairs
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience
  • Minimum of two years of direct supervisory experience including performance management
  • Travel up to 25%
  • Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada
  • Experience with any product, food, feed and health, safety and quality practices and systems
  • Demonstrated experience leading interactions with external regulatory bodies such as CFIA
  • Experience driving continuous improvement through demonstrated project ownership and execution
  • Cross business collaboration and partnership experience
  • Confirmed experience in designing business strategy/vision and execution.

Benefits:

  • Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.