Senior Supplier Quality Expert - Remote

Quality Assurance Manager

In this role, you will define and verify quality and food safety standards across supplier management to ensure safe, high-quality materials. You will work with procurement and factories to drive continuous improvement and manage supplier quality programs, both remotely and on-site. You'll tackle vendor risk, audits, and corrective actions to protect product safety and regulatory compliance, while shaping quality systems at scale. The role offers impact through cross-functional collaboration and an opportunity to advance Nestlé's quality culture and supplier excellence.

Compensation / Benefits

• 401k with company match
• healthcare coverage
• performance-based incentives
• broad range of other benefits

Responsibilities

• Conduct vendor site risk assessments and establish verification activities for supplier management
• Ensure adherence to quality principles, policies, and local/international regulations
• Drive corrective actions with vendors to control food safety hazards
• Collaborate with procurement, factories, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure safe, high-quality materials
• Monitor and audit quality processes and outputs against defined standards
• Support improvement projects to reduce costs, eliminate waste, and improve quality

Key requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related technical field
• Minimum of 10 years of food-related quality assurance experience with understanding of factory operations
• Experience supporting or leading quality initiatives and audits
• Experience with SAP, TraceGains, or similar quality management systems
• Strong knowledge of food safety and HACCP, GMPs, allergen controls, sanitary design, pest control, food regulations, and basic food technology

• cross-functional collaboration
• project management
• problem solving
• SAP
• TraceGains
• HACCP