Group Quality Manager

Group Quality Manager 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 meaningful profession, in a human-sized company, where everyone contributes with pride to better food. WHAT YOU WILL DO: Define, steer, 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 the control of quality and food safety risks, by supervising HACCP, VACCP, and TACCP processes, and by arbitrating decisions relating to non-conformities, product blocks, and withdrawal/recall procedures Manage, develop, and unite multi-site Quality teams, by reinforcing 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 Steer the Group's quality performance, through the monitoring of key indicators, the 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, 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 highly 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, completed by mastery of quality performance management tools and associated digital systems (ERP, LIMS, GED, e-QMS) Fluent command of 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 lead 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 achieve our ambitious objectives You will engage in a sustainable and responsible activity We look forward to receiving your application! jpidf3487e1jm jpit0730jm jpiy26jm