Supplier Quality & Compliance Specialist

Wines Worldwide Directory; Burlingame, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

OLIPOP in Burlingame, California is seeking a Quality Specialist for Vendor Compliance. You will own supplier approval records and ingredient documentation, supporting onboarding with procurement, R&D, and regulatory teams in a fast-growing beverage business.

The role involves evaluating suppliers and ingredients, maintaining compliance records, and conducting supplier quality investigations, including site visits as needed to verify systems meet standards.

Qualifications

• Three to five years in quality assurance, supplier quality, quality systems or food safety within food and beverage.
• Experience reviewing technical documentation including ingredient specifications and COAs.
• High proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, and strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Maintain supplier approval records, ingredient documentation and compliance records supporting supplier qualification.
• Partner with procurement, R&D and regulatory on supplier onboarding, vendor approvals and ingredient changes.
• Evaluate suppliers and ingredients using risk-based assessments, and implement controls and monitoring.
• Monitor supplier performance metrics, maintain scorecards and support corrective actions.
• Conduct supplier quality investigations including root cause analysis and documentation review.
• Visit supplier facilities as needed to verify systems meet quality standards.
• Review ingredient specifications and certificates of analysis to support ingredient release, and maintain a library of ingredient retains for traceability.

Skills

Strong written communication

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

OLIPOP in Burlingame, California is seeking a Quality Specialist for Vendor Compliance. You will own supplier approval records and ingredient documentation, supporting onboarding with procurement, R&D, and regulatory teams in a fast-growing beverage business.

The role involves evaluating suppliers and ingredients, maintaining compliance records, and conducting supplier quality investigations, including site visits as needed to verify systems meet standards.