Our client is a company activating in food and pharmaceutical ingredients sector and this role will be located around Bucharest area.

Main tasks:

• Is strategically responsible for Quality as a cornerstone of the local Food businesses;
• Works with the local teams for ensuring the maintenance of regulatory accreditation ISO
• Agrees with and supports the operating businesses to develop new test capabilities to further enhance and support the commercial offering of the business;
• Ensures that the appropriate Quality controls and Quality KPIs are in place;
• Implement corrective actions raised during internal and external auditing are carried out effectively and promptly, providing coaching and development to further develop team capabilites 
• Ensures all reasonable steps are taken to achieve accuracy, reliability and repeatability of analytical results;
• Assesses key operational risks and takes action to mitigate them;
• Drives the laboratories forward through continuous improvement and the measurement and management of the suite of corporate quality KPI’s;
• Ensures all work in the laboratory is performed in accordance with the methods and Standard Operating Procedures;
• Ensure areas outside of the lab such as logistics have good management of quality standards in place when collecting, handling and transporting samples;
• Is held accountable for engaging and training staff in the purpose and use of the quality system; assist with the provision of a high level of internal and external customer care, in close collaboration with the technical and the commercial teams.

Main requirements for the most eligibile Candidate:

• At least 3-4 years of relevant experience with specific expertise on testing methods, proficiency testing organization, quality management (ISO 17025 accreditation of a national body is an advantage)
•  Able to identify / describe a best practice and to implement it.  
• Interpersonal skills (as this role will interface a lot with the local and regional teams, to understand and document processes);
• Ability to define concepts, align them with key stakeholders and describe them clearly and concisely;
• Structured, analytical and driven personality, strong problem-solver with “can-do” mentality, able to both pragmatically define solutions and capture all relevant details when necessary;
• Have minimum 2 years of relevant quality management-related experience in an organization dealing within the food sector (primarily) ; secondary can come from the pharmaceutical or environment laboratory activities. 
• Experience in working with complex documentation, requiring focus on details/processes.
• English – advanced level, both written and verbal.
• MS Office skills
• University degree (Master) in Engineering, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Molecular Biology.