Global Head of Quality

vor 3 Wochen


Volketswil, Schweiz Givaudan Vollzeit

Givaudan is the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. In close collaboration with food, beverage, consumer product and fragrance partners, Givaudan develops tastes and scents that delight consumers the world over. With a passion to understand consumers’ preferences and a relentless drive to innovate, Givaudan is at the forefront of creating flavours and fragrances that ‘engage your senses’. The Company achieved sales of CHF 5.1 billion in 2017. Headquartered in Switzerland with local presence in over 100 locations, the company has more than 11,100 employees worldwide. Givaudan invites you to discover more at www.givaudan.com.

Global Head of Quality (m/f/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As the Global Head of Quality, you will be responsible for leading the Quality organization and overseeing the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure that customer quality expectations are met. You will manage nine direct reports and work together to facilitate improvements in the quality of our raw materials, intermediates, and finished products, as well as ensure a smooth ingredient lifecycle process.

This position is based in Kemptthal, Switzerland, and you will report to the Head of Global Operations Taste and Wellbeing.

In this exciting role you will:

  • Lead the global Quality team, ensuring a healthy talent pipeline as well as high engagement and performance of all teams
  • Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive internal, customer, and vendor quality policies and programs
  • Foster globally networked technology expertise and implement global best practices
  • Improve all quality-related processes based on a continuous improvement approach
  • Explore and propose inspiring new ways of improving quality for our customers and consumers
  • Encourage active best practice sharing within Quality, Givaudan, and insights from the external environment
  • Provide the strategic link and voice of quality with key stakeholders

Your professional profile includes:

  • Bachelor's degree in Quality, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related discipline
  • Of advantage a Master’s Degree in a Technical field
  • Overall work experience of 20+ years
  • Minimum 10 years of related experience
  • Solid experience managing people and programs
  • Deep Experience with all quality processes, including vendor quality, customer quality requirements, continuous improvement, complaint, issue and crisis management, audit, and change management
  • Broad knowledge of order fulfilment, brief management, regulatory, and innovation processes
  • Sound finance and business knowledge
  • Experience with manufacturing technologies and product characteristics, such as liquids, spray drying, powder blending, process flavours, chemical synthesis, juice-based compounds, emulsions, separations, extractions, and distillations
  • Strategic knowledge of IT systems, including Atlas, Athena, FPR, SAP, Compliance engine, PII, GSD, RMQ, QDMS, AVAP, and ILM
  • Experience with Food Safety and Quality Systems, such as FSSC, AIB, ISO, GMP, GHP, and HACCP

Your benefits in Kemptthal:

  • Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
  • 40-hour working week, flexible working model
  • Additional paid days off
  • Favourable pension fund contributions
  • Subsidized meals in the Staff restaurant / You benefit from a discounted catering offer (incl. lunch)
  • Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site)
  • Discounts at the company shop
  • Free Staff Parking and Bike Badge
  • Subsidized: REKA vouchers and SBB half-fare travelcard
  • Complimentary beverages (tea, coffee, water)
  • Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital
  • Worldwide private accident insuranceLunch at subsidized prices. Also, drinking water, tea and coffee are available free of charge at all locations

#LI-Onsite

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.

Remote working: Hybrid

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Join us and Impact Your World

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.


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