Director, Food Safety & Quality Systems - APMEA

Kerry; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerry, the world’s leading taste and nutrition company, is seeking a senior FSQ leader for Malaysia to govern and drive continuous improvement of Food Safety & Quality initiatives across APMEA. You will align with Global FSQ and lead cross-functional teams to meet customer expectations and regulatory standards.

You will shape regional FSQ strategy, strengthen standards, and drive capability building across multiple sites, ensuring sustainable, quality outcomes for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of strategic and operational experience within global food and/or beverage organisations, ideally with pan-APMEA exposure.
• Strong knowledge of food & beverage regulations, industry standards and evolving customer/consumer expectations.
• Broad technical experience across Supply Quality, Operations, Quality Systems, Regulatory, R&D, Manufacturing, Laboratory Management and Sustainability.
• Strong technical expertise in food chemistry, raw materials, sensory, microbiology, food packaging and food engineering.
• Proven track record in continuous improvement, change management and driving customer-focused, best-practice approaches.
• Strong customer focus with experience building trusted relationships, including with large FMCG customers.
• Proven experience in talent development and building high-performing teams within a global organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, governance and continuous improvement of FSQ systems and programmes across APMEA, with focus on customer expectations, business strategy, policies, food safety and risk mitigation.
• Drive knowledge sharing and performance improvement across APMEA by enabling rapid sharing of best practices and effective ways of working.
• Strengthen FSQ capability and standards through FSQ procedures, cross-functional SPC capability building, Training Needs Analysis and delivery of training programmes.
• Lead FSQ systems and digitalisation governance across EPM, Intelex, SAP, KerryTrack and other FSQ platforms.
• Champion a customer-centric approach to quality and leverage FSQ capability as a strategic advantage.
• Act as key conduit between APMEA and Global FSQ to align priorities and deploy global FSQ initiatives.
• Provide leadership during significant FSQ events, ensuring risk assessments and final release decisions.
• Standardise best-practice ways of working across countries and plants in APMEA.
• Lead through influence to develop FSQ capability and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

FSQ leadership

Global FSQ knowledge

Change management

Customer-focused approach

People development

Strategic thinking

Tools

EPM

Intelex

SAP

KerryTrack

Job description

Kerry, the world’s leading taste and nutrition company, is seeking a senior FSQ leader for Malaysia to govern and drive continuous improvement of Food Safety & Quality initiatives across APMEA. You will align with Global FSQ and lead cross-functional teams to meet customer expectations and regulatory standards.

You will shape regional FSQ strategy, strengthen standards, and drive capability building across multiple sites, ensuring sustainable, quality outcomes for customers and partners.