Support & Product Development
To support the development and quality assurance of common sourced own brand food products for METRO Cash & Carry International and provide general product support for the countries.
Tasks
- Development of products and their specifications in cooperation with suppliers Common Sourcing team and Own Brand team
- Organize monitoring systems (e.g. laboratory including sensory testing and assessing the results)
- Risk assessment of products and suppliers including HACCP
- Review and approve label information in Common Sourced articles
- Aligning with PC&G team the organization of sensory assessments
- Inspect suppliers
- First point of contact for suppliers and country quality colleagues
- Work with countries and suppliers to establish and implement quality standards
- Maintain data on supplier certification inspections product specifications and analysis results
- Manage complaints and incidents.
- Advising Procurement on Quality-related issues
- Provide training for countries
- Work with sustainability colleagues to ensure the Sustainability policies implementation
- Monitor and maintain the quality management system
- Regularly review and maintain the QA documents e.g. : GQA standards procedures technical manuals etc
- Ensuring that METRO branded products comply with quality legal and safety requirements and identify quality risks
- In case of quality deviations evaluate incidents and execute corrective actions
- Striving to continuously improve METRO QA processes and overall performance.
Qualifications
- University degree in food chemistry food technology or similar food related degrees.
- Excellent English communication and Project management skills good presentation skills - develop and present PowerPoint presentations to senior management.
- Experience 5 years in front line retailing / wholesaling and / or product quality management
- Knowledge of the international Own Brand trade.
- Good knowledge of HACCP national and European Food law supplier certification standards and crisis management.
- Experience in Food Analysis and Sensory analysis
- Experience in quality management and standards
- Experience in the collaboration with external laboratories
- Experienced in risk management.
- Work in cross functional teams.
- Ability to work with data and statistics.
Additional Information
- Work-life balance : Flexible working hours in agreement with your line manager 30 days of holidays.
- Training : A comprehensive training offer via our own training center or externally.
- Well-being : Health days with lots of health checks and information about your well-being company medical care including a range of preventive services such as flu shots OTHEB employee assistance program.
- Exciting life on campus : Free gym and sports classes Rioba coffee bar canteen with discounted meals for employees many campus events.
- Discounts : discounted Jobticket as well as discounts in our wholesale stores and at many partner companies.
- Comfort : Good transport connections free parking spaces JobBike.
- Company pension plan : You will receive a contribution to your company pension.
- Family driven : Three daycare centers for children on campus support of holiday camps for children of employees.
Key Skills
Test Cases,SQL,Quality Assurance,Agile,TFS,Jira,Software Testing,Test Automation,Cucumber,QA / QC,SDLC,Selenium
Employment Details
Remote Work : No
Employment Type : Full-time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1