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Your impact
- Client support and program development of Food Safety initiatives
- Align with clients on key Food Safety initiatives.
- Participate in recurring client and account management level engagements to ensure on-going alignment. Both virtually and in person at clients’ locations.
- Ensure client’s food safety initiatives are clearly defined, met, or exceeded by our team.
- Support product Quality initiatives.
- Provide technical expertise with client specification development.
- Provide technical support in specification documentation (ensuring that an achievable and measurable specification is achieved).
- Support Solutions, Procurement, and suppliers with technical aspects in development of new products.
- Industry expertise and regulation development / adherence.
- Ensure clients are informed of all material changes in food safety policy that may impact their business.
- Ensure clients understand and are aware of the latest changes in policy and the client’s responsibility / exposure related to changes in food safety policy.
- Through on-going client engagement, provide consultation and expertise to clients related to mitigation and proactive activities clients should be engaging in to prepare for changes in food safety policy and regulations.
- Attend industry conferences for personal professional development and lead client engagement at such conferences.
About you
- A positive attitude, with a we before me mentality
- Accountability – holding yourself and others accountable for commitments.
- Professional Integrity – keeping commitments, acting with honor, conveying respect, and maintaining high moral standards.
- Trust – conduct business in a way that builds confidence in all team members.
- Competence – apply what you know in an effective manner, building team and client credibility, and ensuring the best possible results.
- Desire – genuine drive and interest to help our clients and team members.
- Leadership- Lead by example. Embrace and enforce our corporate values.
- Independence- Ability to work autonomously through high priority projects.
- Teamwork – contribute positively to team objectives, work positively with others to achieve both personal goals and team goals. Can work with the Food Safety team as well as cross functional teams across the Fresh Division.
- Excellence With Agility – ability to seek solutions and solve problems.
- Efficiently Deliver Solutions - work with the Fresh Division Food Safety team to follow our processes and procedures to maintain efficient working structures.
- Strong relationship and networking skills are a must. The ability to develop and maintain great personal and business relationships is paramount to success.
- Supply chain knowledge including distribution and logistics, procurement, manufacturing, transportation, and inventory management, accounting, supply chain visibility, etc.
- Solid understanding/aptitude for technical and analytical skills, demonstrating experiences with several of the following: spreadsheets, databases, SCM planning and execution applications, including ERP systems.
- Solid Team Building and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience of individual and team-based problem solving.
- Great organizational skills including planning, organizing, goal setting, and execution.
- 10+ years experience in a food safety role, preferably Produce, Meat and/or Seafood.
- 5+ years experience in a processor or distributor facility OR within a National Foodservice organization (one of our current clients or the like preferred)
- Master’s degree in food science / safety or related studies preferred.
- Solid Leadership and Business Accountability Track Record
- Foodservice industry experience highly desirable, either on supplier, distributor, or client sides.
- Demonstrated project management and superior personal productivity and oral, written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work positively with cross functional teams.
- Excellent communication skills required. Including listening, written, oral, and demonstrated group presentation. Excellent personal productivity skills and communications such as word, power-point, excel, etc.
What's in this for you?
Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life and long-term-disability plans! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.
Invest in your success. We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.
Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don’t have to accrue time off in order to take it!
We welcome all.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
