Executive, Supplier Quality

**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.

**Responsibilities:
**Supply Quality Management**
- Ensure timely feedback to warehouse team and supplier for any non-conformance or quality deficiency for the supplied items.
- Periodically monitor supplier performance based on the rejected items during incoming and production as well as the responses on actions taken for those rejected items.
- Prepare necessary documentation for the point (2) above as part of periodic reporting to Quality Manager, include the improvement action that Supplier has taken.
- Conduct desktop audit or site 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
- Perform data analysis including supplier performance on root cause and corrective action and preventive action for supplier improvement and monitor effectiveness check on supplier improvement actions.
- Analyze supplier monitoring performance metric and driving supplier performance improvement.
- Organize monthly supplier meetings, issue, review, monitor external CPAR and supplier performance monitoring and supplier quality improvements.
- Monitor new suppliers or existing suppliers with extended scope or changes.

**Support on Operation**
- Align with company policy to ensure good quality and safe products are produced
- Ensure QC inspector prioritize on work safety
- Carry out inspection task according to BRCGS, SMETA 4-pillars, FDA standards, HACCP & GMP requirements
- Supervise QC team on their work to ensure smooth line release and production process with production team on daily operation.
- Establish SOP for QC inspector to accommodate the Quality requirements in production area and get a review and approval from QA manager
- Conduct daily meeting to QC team on the duty roster, inspection procedures, fulfilment of inspection record
- Support QA manager to ensure effectiveness of SOP implementation by factory team
- Report to QA manager for overall Quality performances which include good documentation, good manufacturing practice and good hygiene practice in the plant.
- Support on new innovation project which include factory trial.
- Conduct data analysis, trending and reporting on RM/FG rejects, microbiological, environmental, and in-process parameters
- Ensure calibration of instruments is timely carried out
- Issue CAPA to respective department and follow up verification and effectiveness check
- Ensure QC lab consumables are properly stocked for daily operations
- Support in lab operation improvement projects for continual improvement
- Maintain and review for CPAR closure, monitoring and tracking for the effectiveness of CAPA implementation.
- Support in environmental monitoring program for facilities and their data collection and trending
- To support on the others task, which is assigned by QA manager

**Required Competency**
- Experience in supplier management, supplier approval, supplier performance monitoring.
- Good interpersonal skill, in collaboration with supplier.
- Lead QC team to ensure inspections are carried out in respective area in factory according to Manual & procedures of BRCGS, SMETA 4-pillars, FDA, HACCP standard and GMP requirements
- Good people management and communication skills
- 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
- Experience in chemical and microbiological testing