Senior Foods QA Manager

The overarching purpose of the Senior Group Foods QA Manager role is to provide oversight of all Foods QA related strategies, frameworks, policies, practices, standards, and guidelines. The role aligns all Foods QA practices across divisions at a store level nationally, and in non-RSA, when applicable. The Senior Group Foods QA Manager manages a group of QA food technologists and drives the overarching Foods QA system across categories within the group as well as advising, monitoring, and providing technical food science, food safety, and food technology guidance when needed. The focus is to provide oversight of food safety, legal and quality compliance and engage with all hygiene and safety bodies and committees within various local, provisional, and national governmental bodies. There will also be a strong need to understand the concepts of food technology/science and microbiology risks in food, as well as the auditing of suppliers and food legislation. Further to this, the role will participate in various projects, align, and consolidate all projects and act as a central point for all related matters across individual projects and/or categories.