Senior Executive

The Company

At IRVINS, you'll join Singapore's high growth homegrown consumer food brand expanding quickly on the global stage, with 5 offices and 19 markets worldwide, and a product lineup that redefines the food industry.

Founded in 2008, over the years we have pivoted and evolved from an F&B restaurant into a modern food CPG startup. With IRVINS' global reach, category and market leadership, and startup mentality, we welcome people with a builder attitude keen on building things from scratch and help turn a homegrown brand into Singapore's iconic global consumer brand.

This is a commercial business development role where you get a chance to work with distributor partners and grow the business across markets. You may be required to travel and stay overseas for a prolonged period of time as per need basis.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1.Supply Quality Management

• Ensure timely feedback from the warehouse team and supplier for any non-conformance or quality deficiency for the supplied items.
• Periodically review supplier quality programs, monitor supplier performance and issue CPAR to suppliers for any non-conformance in raw materials.
• Analyze supplier monitoring performance metric and driving supplier performance improvement.
• Prepare documentation on supplier performance, conduct raw material inspection data analysis as part of reporting to Quality Manager, include the improvement action that Supplier has taken.
• Perform audit to existing or new supplier for existing or new ingredients.
• Review and verified identified root cause and planned corrective actions by external parties, including supplier, vendor, service provider in CPAR.
• Organize monthly supplier meetings, issue, review, monitor external CPAR and supplier performance monitoring and supplier quality improvements.
• Liaise with relevant departments e.g. supply chain and R&D department on new suppliers on-boarding process and existing suppliers for any changes as well as continual improvement initiatives.

2.Support on Daily Operation

• Align with company policy to ensure good quality and safe products are produced throughout production.
• To train and supervise QC inspector on-job training to ensure food safety and quality competency as well as worker safety.
• To support daily factory operation, trials and perform daily inspection tasks according to BRCGS, SMETA 4-pillars, FDA standards, HACCP & GMP requirements and relevant regulatory requirements to ensure compliances.
• To establish SOP for QC inspector to accommodate the Quality requirements in production area and get a review and approval from QA manager
• Conduct daily meetings to QC team on the duty roster, inspection procedures, fulfilment of inspection record
• Report to QA manager regarding overall Quality performances which include good documentation, good manufacturing practice and good hygiene practice in the plant.
• Issue CAPA to relevant departments on any non-conformance identified, review and monitor CPAR closure and effectiveness.
• Review and maintain all CCP's and OPRP programs are updated and comply with FSQA requirements.
• Support daily laboratory operation and QC lab consumables are properly stocked for daily operations
• To undertake the other relevant tasks, which are assigned by the QA manager.

Our dream candidates:

• Minimum requirement degree in food science or food technology. Preferably candidates with 2-3 years working experience in supplier quality management and operation in the FMCG industry. Good HALAL quality management system understanding will be an advantage.
• Possess good interpersonal skills and able to work collaboratively with other departments, different levels of people and multiple suppliers.
• Experienced in leading a group of QC team to ensure daily inspections are carried out in respective areas in the factory according to Manual & procedures of BRCGS, SMETA 4-pillars, FDA, HACCP standard and GMP requirements and others food safety standards.
• Good understanding and working experience in root cause analysis on deviation and non-conformances handling and good problem-solving skills with use of QC tools.
• Experience in developing SOP, work instructions, checklist, forms, and records and FSQA related testing.
• Able to work under minimum supervision and tight deadlines.