Quality Senior Manager

**WHO ARE WE?**

Do you want to work for a company that makes a difference in the world? At Unilever, we have a clear purpose - to make sustainable living commonplace. Through our 400 brands reaching 2.5 billion people every day, we aim to make a positive social impact globally and locally. Through our household brands, like Knorr, Dove, Hellmann’s, and Axe, we are creating a bright future for our customers, our business, and our planet - and you can be part of it.

Quality at Unilever means delivering superior consumer experiences, delighting every consumer and customer all of the time, every time. As the LATAM Nutrition BU Quality Lead, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that products meet the highest standards of quality and safety.

**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**:
The Nutrition Quality Lead is the leading Quality role for our Nutrition BU in LATAM and is responsible for quality governance and leadership of around 130 employees in 5 countries across 10 sites.

As the LATAM Nutrition BU Quality Lead you will have full end to end responsibility for the quality function within Nutrition, starting from design and innovation right through to the Sourcing Unit quality teams who are manufacturing our products.

You will be working with billion dollar iconic brands such as Knorr and Hellmann’s and d will play a key role in the overall Quality Leadership team for LATAM.

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**:

- You will deploy and lead the Nutrition Quality strategy, including governance and goals
- You will have a team of managers across offices and factories across the LATAM region, totalling around 130 employees
- You will lead the Innovation execution, quality risk management and quality improvement tasks, partnering with colleagues in Marketing and R&D
- You will be responsible for supplier quality improvement (working with colleagues in R&D and Procurement).
- Your role will focus on factory operations, including continuous improvement
- You will be responsible for the Quality Management System (QMS) compliance within your team.
- You will have a strong customer and consumer focus (you will partner with colleagues in the Consumer & Markets Insights Team, Marketing and R&D) to really understand our consumers.
- We are passionate about driving a strong culture of Quality and as the Head of Quality for Nutrition in LATAM you will be landing & leading Quality culture program activities

**LEVEL OF EDUCATION NEEDED**:
A food science or engineering degree (or similar, such as Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry etc) would be preferred, but other relevant backgrounds and experiences can also be considered

**WHAT YOU´LL NEED TO SUCCEED?**
- Appropriate functional business experience in quality, manufacturing, engineering and/or other supply chain /R&D roles
- Experience in leading teams and managing senior stakeholders (this role will regularly be interacting with Directors and VPs)
- Experience of working in/with factories
- Experience of virtual team working, your team will be based in different time zones and countries, so you must be comfortable with this. You will also be part of a wider Quality team based all over the world, you will need to have some experience in a similar environment, or be excited by this way of working
- Experience in change management
- Strong customer/consumer Quality mind-set
- Digitally enabled with an aptitude for new technologies.
- Strong communication skills
- Flexibility to travel - your team and stakeholders are based across Latin & Central America and you will need to spend time at different locations
- Strong team player
- Languages: Spanish & Advanced English & Portuguese Intermediate