Quality Manager

Manufacture Belge de Chocolats; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary package

Insurance and benefits

Lunch vouchers

Company car or transport reimbursement

32 days holiday

Bike parking

Unlimited chocolate on site

Résumé du poste

Manufacture Belge de Chocolats in Brussels seeks a Quality Manager to ensure top quality, safety and environmental responsibility across operations, promoting continuous improvement, risk prevention and asset protection to safeguard people and product integrity.

In this role you will lead quality control, drive HACCP/GMP compliance, oversee audits, and develop teams. Fluent French/English (Dutch optional) and a Master’s degree with 10 years in a regulated manufacturing setting are preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in food science, food engineering, quality management, or equivalent.
• 10+ years experience in the food industry or regulated manufacturing.
• Proven leadership of teams.
• Fluent in French, English, and/or Dutch.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, and quality systems.
• Experience with audits and CAPA.

Responsabilités

• Oversee quality control across the site, ensuring food safety and product quality.
• Lead non-conformity management, root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Support HACCP activities and regulatory compliance across processes.
• Monitor quality trends, deviations and customer feedback to drive improvements.
• Lead environmental, health and safety initiatives and sustainability efforts.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Food safety knowledge

Auditing & CAPA

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Quality systems

Formation

Master's degree in Food Science or related field

Description du poste

Would you like to boost your career in the world of chocolate?

Our new opportunity could be just what you are looking for!

We are "Manufacture Belge de Chocolats (MBC)" and we develop tasty, innovative & high-quality chocolatesin the heart of Brussels.

We are proud to produce for the Godiva brand, but we are also expanding into the Private Label market.

Do you want to join a human-sized company with an international outlook and help spread our excellent chocolates around the world?

Do not look any further!

Your future role

As Quality Manager, you will ensure the highest standards of quality, safety and environmental responsibility across all operations by promoting continuous improvement, preventing risks, protecting people and assets and fostering a culture of excellence and accountability in order to safeguard people, ensure product integrity and minimize environmental impact while enabling sustainable business performance in compliance with applicable standards and regulations.

In this role, you will be assigned the following tasks:

Quality Control

• You will oversee quality control activities across the production site, ensuring the highest standards of product quality and food safety.


• You will drive the effective management of non-conformities, root cause analyses, and corrective actions to continuously improve performance.


• You will support HACCP activities and ensure risks are proactively identified and mitigated throughout the manufacturing process.


• You will analyse quality trends, production deviations, and customer complaints to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen product consistency.

Quality Assurance

• You will lead the site's food safety and quality management systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.


• You will ensure the effective implementation of HACCP, GMP, and certification schemes such as FSSC 22000.


• You will oversee supplier qualifications and raw material approval processes to guarantee product integrity and compliance.


• You will monitor regulatory developments and ensure ongoing compliance with food safety, packaging, and quality legislation.

Health & Safety

• You will foster a proactive safety culture that protects the wellbeing of employees and promotes safe behaviours across the site.


• You will ensure workplace risks are identified, assessed, and effectively controlled through robust safety programs and procedures.


• You will lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, and preventive actions to continuously improve safety performance.


• You will monitor safety performance indicators and support continuous improvement of health and safety standards.

Environmental Management

• You will ensure compliance with environmental regulations, permits, and reporting requirements across the site.


• You will monitor environmental performance and support initiatives aimed at reducing the site's environmental footprint.


• You will contribute to environmental audits, risk assessments, and continuous improvement actions that support the company's sustainability objectives.

The profile we are looking for:

• You graduated with a Master’s degree in food science, Food Engineering, Quality Management or equivalent.


• You have extensive experience (10 years) within the food industry or another highly regulated manufacturing environment, with first experience in a similar role.


• You have proven experience in leading and developing teams.


• You are fluent in French, English and/or Dutch.

• You have strong expertise in food safety standards, including HACCP, GMP, quality systems, and regulatory compliance.


• You have solid knowledge of quality assurance, quality control, auditing, and corrective and preventive action processes.


• You have experience with risk assessment, incident investigation, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• You are hands-on, proactive and comfortable taking ownership of challenges and driving solutions


• You have strong organisational, project management and communication skills, which enable you to manage priorities and collaborate effectively.


• You are dedicated to encouraging a culture of quality, food safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement.

What we offer:

• A formative experience: we are a young company, and you will be quickly involved in many topics


• A pleasant work environment


• A well-positioned salary package (gross monthly salary, group and hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, eco-cheque, company car or reimbursement of public transport costs, etc.)


• 32 days holiday per year (20 statutory and 12 RTT)


• Secured bicycle parking


• Unlimited chocolate consumption on site (offices) ?