Senior Quality Manager: Food Safety Strategy & Growth

Asahi Beverages Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Asahi Beverages Abbotsford site in Melbourne seeks a Senior Quality Manager to lead the site’s quality and food safety agenda. You will shape long-term strategy, drive a strong quality culture and guide capital priorities, working with an experienced quality, microbiology and laboratory team across manufacturing.

You will partner with site leadership and broader business to protect consumers, raise standards and support site performance. This role is a key member of the Site Leadership Team.

Qualifications

• Quality leadership experience within FMCG or regulated manufacturing.
• Experience leading managers or multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong problem-solving and risk-based thinking.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and build partnerships across manufacturing.
• Knowledge of food safety and quality management systems such as FSSC 22000.
• Tertiary qualifications in Food Technology or Food Science.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site’s quality and food safety strategy and translate priorities into action.
• Shape long-term quality roadmap including continuous improvement initiatives and future capital investment priorities.
• Champion a strong quality culture, partnering with manufacturing teams to raise standards.
• Develop an experienced team of quality leaders and technical specialists.
• Drive risk-based decision making using data to resolve quality issues and manage non-conformance.
• Maintain effective quality and food safety systems to ensure regulatory, customer and company requirements.
• Lead internal and external audits, licensing requirements and corrective actions to maintain governance.
• Partner with Site Leadership, central support functions, customers, logistics providers and regulators.

Skills

Quality leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Audits compliance

Data-driven thinking

Education

Food Technology/Science degree

Job description

Asahi Beverages Abbotsford site in Melbourne seeks a Senior Quality Manager to lead the site’s quality and food safety agenda. You will shape long-term strategy, drive a strong quality culture and guide capital priorities, working with an experienced quality, microbiology and laboratory team across manufacturing.

You will partner with site leadership and broader business to protect consumers, raise standards and support site performance. This role is a key member of the Site Leadership Team.