QA Compliance Specialist at Nestle

Position Summary

In this role you will be responsible to assess the level of compliance and determine the status of compliance on an on-going basis towards Food Safety, Legal and Nestle Quality requirements. 

Proposes modifications and updates to the FQAM. In this position the jobholder is overall accountable for Compliance. Update internal documents such as QMS as per the updates received from regulatory affairs. Perform a complete gap assessment of all products for regulatory requirements and our practices once every year with the help of regulatory affairs.

A day in the life of a Compliance Specialist:

Leadership

• Knows, by product group, all compliance requirements (Legal, Food safety and Nestle norms).
• Ensures that monitoring schemes include all up-to-date compliance requirements and are implemented.
• Reviews monitoring data for finished products, ingredients, and packaging materials against these requirements.
• Alerts the FQAM on discrepancies and solutions.
• Updates compliance requirements based on change management.
• Ensures the launch of new products, which are compliant with norms.
• Advise Factory management on troubleshooting out of specification results
• Advise factory compliance requirements linked to Nett content management.
• Oversee the budget for the chemistry laboratory and contaminant monitoring program.
• Advise and manage the compliance to Halaal and Kosher requirements.

Technical Assistance

• Factory QA: Overall supervisor of Monitoring plan and Chemistry laboratory
• Application groups; Provides the relevant Application groups with compliance related requirements, Information, and data.
• Analytical facilities: Provides the analytical facilities, internal and external with up-to-date compliance requirements and follows up to receive results in a timely manner.
• Supply Chain & Export: Provides compliance requirements to producing and receiving markets and ensures the IMS product briefs are completed on technical inputs.
• Regulatory Affairs: Solicit for updates and provides data upon request through the FQAM.

What will make you successful?

• Graduate/Food Technologist/Natural Sciences degree
• Minimum 5 year's experience in  Quality Assurance
• Robust Quality Leadership knowledge
• ISO 9001 certification process and documentation requirements,
• Local Food Laws.
• QSTAT (Ester / NSPC)