Quality Data & Finished Goods Specs Lead

RYZE; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

RYZE is seeking a Quality Data & Finished Goods Specification Manager to own the data backbone behind quality decisions and rebuild our finished good specification system. As RYZE scales across DTC, mass retail, and a cross-category launch, this role turns complaints, non-conformance, and audit data into insights and action.

It also manages specifications across a co-manufacturer network for repeatability and practicality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality data analytics, trending, or continuous improvement within food or beverage manufacturing.
• Strong analytical skills, with hands-on experience turning complaints, NCR, and audit data into actionable insight (e.g. CPMU, foreign body, and allergen trending).
• Experience developing or owning finished good specifications, including process parameters (blend time/speed), product testing, and label controls.
• Familiarity with eQMS platforms and reporting/dashboard tools for quality data.
• Comfortable driving corrective action cross-functionally, including directing investigations with Quality Managers across a co-manufacturer network.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to lead cross-functional analytical meetings and translate data into clear action.

Responsibilities

• Own all quality data analytics and processing, using complaint data to build CPMU insights that drive department decision-making.
• Lead the design of key data trending, including foreign body drivers by type and site, allergens, serious complaints, and quality complaints.
• Lead data trending on non-conformances, tracking closure against agreed timeframes and escalating any at risk.
• Drive corrective action and site focus, giving Quality Managers clear direction on priority investigations and actions.
• Own and produce the data behind weekly and monthly quality reporting, and lead the complaints analytical meeting.
• Support quality system improvements, including the ongoing use of systems, keeping it simple and effective.
• Lead and develop RYZE’s finished good specification format, rebuilding it to be practical and enforceable across the co-manufacturer network.
• Build core product controls into every spec - ingredient order, blend time and speed by machine, product testing details, and label controls and approval.

Skills

Quality data analytics

Analytical thinking

Finished good specs

eQMS platforms

Cross-functional leadership

Technical writing

Tools

eQMS dashboards

Job description

RYZE is seeking a Quality Data & Finished Goods Specification Manager to own the data backbone behind quality decisions and rebuild our finished good specification system. As RYZE scales across DTC, mass retail, and a cross-category launch, this role turns complaints, non-conformance, and audit data into insights and action.

It also manages specifications across a co-manufacturer network for repeatability and practicality.