QA Manager

QA Manager

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We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

Reporting to Senior Quality Manager

Your responsibilities

• Manage the implementation of Reckitt Quality Systems to support business strategies by ensuring compliance to Reckitt Quality Manual and applicable local regulatory requirements.
• Assess, communicate, and implement policies, procedures and initiatives from Global / Regional Quality.
• Increase Quality mindset of the site organization by leading Quality awareness enhancement programs, such as Quality Month Awareness etc.
• Monitor and share site functions’ Key Quality performance indicators and identify continuous improvement opportunities that lead to a higher performing quality culture.
• Lead site Change Control Management to comply with Global Quality System requirement and verify the effectiveness of approved change requests. Liaise with Global / Regional Change Control community as required.
• Manage document control system for use by functions within the Singapore Supply Centre site. Review and approve local SOP in the PDMS (Procedural Documentation Management System) to ensure they meet Reckitt quality system requirements, and have incorporated relevant new learning / processes and regulatory changes.
• Ensure timely review of materials and products quality and perform disposition to meet production schedule and delivery deadlines.
• Coordinate and facilitate non-conformance (NC) investigations, and ensure that root-cause analysis by the investigation team is thorough and complete, and appropriate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) are put in place to minimize product loss.
• Prepare Potential Early Quality Alert (EQA) when required, and follow-up on sharing of key learning.
• Support food safety / HACCP team for HACCP 2.0 & other food safety requirement eg. Contaminant, Food fraud etc.
• Implement an effective internal audit program and ensure compliance to requirements of: GMP / HACCP pre-requisite programs, Quality systems, Halal assurance system.
• Lead site team to prepare for audits (e.g. Global/Regional Quality Audit, External Certification Bodies), and ensure agreed audit findings are corrected and preventive measures are put in place.
• Organize Annual Product Review to drive product quality improvement.
• Support innovation projects and timely launch of new production introduction.
• Manage the customer complaint handling system – evaluation, investigation and corrective/preventive action planning, implementation and monitoring.
• Manage the local Mock Recall exercise as per Reckitt procedures.
• Assist Senior Manager, Quality in liaison with Global / Regional Quality in crisis situations, such as a potential product recall, or high-profile customer complaint.
• Represent the Singapore Supply Centre in various quality professional communities (e.g. GMC) to create a network for teaching and learning and identification of best practices.
• Support OE/Engineering improvement projects to ensure compliance to Reckitt quality systems requirements.
• Support Procurement team to help existing material suppliers to meet Reckitt Quality standards through sharing / training. Support the RMAQ (Raw material attribute questionnaire) review process for new material suppliers.
• Develop succession and development plans for direct reports, ensuring for their career growth and succession.
• Perform other tasks, roles or projects that may be assigned by the Plant Director or Senior Manager, Quality from time to time.

The experience we're looking for

• Minimum Bachelor degree in a scientific or technical discipline (Chemistry, Microbiology, Food Science or related)
• Minimum 5 years of Quality Assurance / Quality Systems in a regulated food manufacturing industry. Experience in manufacturing of infant/follow up formula will be of advantage.
• Performed supervisory role for min 3 years.
• Experienced in establishing/implementing Quality Management Systems, Food Safety Management System, Halal Assurance System.
• Preferably with extensive quality system audit experience.
• Experienced in collaborating with various functional roles within the organization to develop strategies and execute action plans to resolve critical issues.
• Strong understanding and working level knowledge of quality systems including HACCP, change control, corrective action/preventive action, process/product qualification, and the successful application of these strategies across an organization to produce desired results.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.