Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Plano • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,200 - $147,200 per year
About the role
- The Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance is critical to ensuring that we live up to this value through creating and leading implementation of strategies that effectively manage food safety and quality risks.
- This role will lead Yum! Brands’ Supplier Food Safety Governance program and will publish, communicate, coach, and plan for worldwide adoption of policies, standards, and audit programs across our food supply chain.
- Critical accountabilities for this role include working with Business Units, Franchisees, Suppliers, Audit Companies, Certification Program Owners, and other key stakeholders to implement global approaches to measure and manage food safety & quality risks from the supply chain.
- The position will also support Business Units with problem solving, crisis management and acceptance of alternative standards, where appropriate.
- Additionally, this role carries the responsibility for driving continuous improvement strategies based on analysis of Yum!’s Food Safety compliance status and performance trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in microbiology, environmental health, food safety, biology or related field, Master’s Degree is a plus.
- 7-10 years of relevant experience of food safety and quality management systems in the food/restaurant/beverage industry and regulatory area.
- Working knowledge of food regulations, microbiological methodology and practices, GAP, GMP, GFSI recognized certification programs, FSMA, environmental monitoring program, HACCP, and preventive control programs.
- Established/proven capability to develop and implement policy and risk mitigation programs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate clearly and concisely in a way that not only influences decisions in the development of food safety strategies.
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
- Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
- Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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