Supplier Quality Assurance Manager

1.      Partnering with R&D, SRA, Commercial Buyers and Marketing in developing raw materials SQA strategies which are aligned with overall Global and Regional Business Strategies.

2.     Responsible for the Quality assessment and input of quality standards, Q&FS insights, supplier performance in the selection process to define the right Sourcing strategy for the raw materials supplier base and potential new raw material suppliers for the Mars Wrigley Confectionery China region

3.     Assessment and confirmation of  supplier capability to meet MARS Quality standards by supplier risk assessment, SQA audit, review of analytical data, verifying supplier hazard controls are operating effectively to ensure all quality, food safety and legal risks associated with the ingredients, packaging, storage and transport are robustly managed.

• To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.

• Support the supplier to address gaps in Q&FS capability and suggest improvement areas to develop suppliers to meet the right Quality standards.

• Develop technical expertise in the production of raw materials  and keep up to date with technical developments in the industry that can set new standards and best practices for our suppliers

• Resolve raw materials related technical/quality non-conformances through thorough root cause analysis and defining corrective and preventive actions with the supplier and good follow-through.

• Develops an extensive X functions network that ensures sufficient routes of communication are developed to promote robust engagement with internal and external stakeholders so that suppliers’   risks are transparent to all and/or open opportunities to consolidate and leverage resources that creates value to the business

• Define ambitious quality targets for the suppliers, and deliver year on year reduction in supplier non-conformance to support factory efficiency. Ensure regular supplier quality performance reviews.

• Drive SQA Metric and provide periodic update to the business

• Lead and/or support Value Engineering and sustainability projects to support both Commercial and R&D strategies implementation.

• Support the development and implementation of new raw  material in response to innovation pipeline, support delivery of COGGS related projects which require raw material developments and spec. changes

• Partnership with R&D, Q&FS, SRA and/or Commercial Buying to identify and eliminate gaps from quality control effectiveness and efficiency, cost, food safety and regulatory compliance point of view.

• Drive operational excellence of supplier base against MQM standard.

• Drive the implementation of the MQM standard by delivering training to internal clients on MQM standard and drive MQM compliance on the supplier part.