Head of Quality (f/m/d)

Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on delicious taste, meaty and juicy texture, while only using clean ingredients. Planted is setting a completely new standard in the plant-based meat category, making it a healthy, delicious and sustainable choice for all. Truly better than meat from animals.

Our growth is driven by a hunger to create a sustainable, healthy, and compassionate future for all – consumers, planet and animals. We are more than a delicious product; we are a mindset. Sustainability, health, and animal welfare are at the core of our identity. We never compromise on quality and our only natural ingredients, ensuring trust with our consumers as well as partners through our commitment to excellence.

Your Mission:

• You lead and develop Planted’s mission-driven Quality team, covering all aspects of food quality and regulatory compliance
• You ensure consistent product quality and safety at our sites in Kemptthal and Memmingen, as well as at suppliers and co-manufacturers, in line with Planted standards, IFS, and legal requirements
• You strengthen the quality culture across the organization
• You expand and optimize the quality management system to meet the needs of our growing product portfolio, technologies, markets, and customer base
• You ensure that all quality standards, control systems, and certifications support current and future market and customer requirements
• You implement scalable processes and ways of working within the Quality team and across functions like Operations, R&D, Commercial, customers, and suppliers
• You take ownership of quality across all production sites, including managing customer, authority, and certification audits, as well as audits at external partners
• You lead the organization through quality issues or crises, including heading the crisis team
• You actively participate in or oversee key Quality working groups such as HACCP, Food Defense, and Food Fraud

You:

• Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in food sciences or a related field
• Bring 5+ years of experience in quality roles within food production, including proven leadership experience
• Possess in-depth expertise in quality assurance, management, and control—covering crisis management and communication
• Are a team player, responsibility taker & flexible with a “hands-on” approach
• Decide quickly and effectively using a risk-based approach, communicating clearly even under pressure
• Think entrepreneurially and are eager to help shape and scale an ambitious company
• Are willing to travel regularly between Kemptthal and Memmingen
• Communicate fluently in both German and English
• Bring experience with quality in animal or plant-based meat products—an advantage