Group Quality Manager
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Location
- Villars-sur-Glâne
- First posted
• 22 July 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite duration
• 1752 Villars-sur-Glâne
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About Cremo ##
Join us and give meaning and taste to your career! ###
At Cremo, we are experts in dairy products in Switzerland and we are committed to quality, healthy, and tasty food. Joining us means practicing a profession that has meaning, in a human-sized company, where everyone contributes with pride to better nutrition.
WHAT YOU WILL DO: ####
• Define, drive, and evolve the Group Quality strategy, ensuring the compliance of integrated management systems with regulatory, normative, customer, and label requirements across all sites
• Represent the company to certification bodies, authorities, customers, and external partners, and guarantee the success of audits as well as the implementation of associated improvement plans
• Ensure control of quality and food safety risks, by supervising HACCP, VACCP, and TACCP procedures, and arbitrating decisions regarding non-conformities, product blockages, and withdrawal/recall procedures
• Manage, develop, and unite multi-site Quality teams, by strengthening a quality culture oriented towards the field, accountability, continuous improvement, and performance
• Support the company's strategic projects, notably new product launches, process evolutions, and quality commitments to customers
• Drive the Group's quality performance, through the monitoring of key indicators, control of non-quality costs, risk analysis, and reporting to General Management
• Define the roadmap for internal laboratories and guarantee the reliability of analyses, by supporting their development towards the best reference standards, notably ISO 17025 certification
WHAT YOU BRING: ####
• Higher education (University Master's, HES or equivalent) in agri-food, life sciences, food technology, or quality engineering; a quality auditor, HACCP, or Lean Six Sigma certification is an asset
• Confirmed experience of at least 8 to 10 years in a quality management function within the agri-food industry or a heavily regulated industrial environment, including team management
• Recognized expertise in quality and food safety management systems (ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, ISO 17025, IFS/BRC), as well as HACCP, VACCP, and TACCP methodologies
• Proven experience in conducting certification audits, customer audits, and regulatory inspections, as well as in managing critical situations such as major non-conformities or product withdrawals/recalls
• Solid understanding of Swiss and European regulatory requirements, complemented by mastery of quality performance management tools and associated digital systems (ERP, LIMS, GED, e-QMS)
• Fluent in French and German; English is an asset
• Recognized leadership, strong decision-making capacity, and great autonomy
• Ability to unite and communicate with multidisciplinary teams, to drive change, to arbitrate in complex situations, and to promote a demanding, pragmatic, and results-oriented quality culture
WHAT WE OFFER YOU: ####
• An evolving environment and a pleasant working framework
• Possibility of internal training and development
• Various discounts at more than 150 partners via the Swibeco platform
• Advantageous social benefits (supplementary health and accident insurance, supplement to family allowances)
4 REASONS TO JOIN CREMO: ####
• You will actively participate in the transformation of Cremo
• You will contribute to projects at the heart of a historic Swiss agri-food company
• You will have a direct impact on the company's performance to reach our ambitious objectives
• You will engage in a sustainable and responsible activity
We look forward to receiving your application!
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