Direct Client Advisor Food Safety & Quality (Retail Packaging)

• We are seeking a Food Safety & Quality Advisor with experience in packaging materials and supplier quality to support a high-visibility retail packaging program.

  This role partners closely with packaging engineering, supplier quality teams, and cross-functional partners to ensure the safety, compliance, and quality of customer-facing packaging products.

  The position is ideal for professionals with experience in packaging engineering, supplier quality, food safety, or materials science, particularly within consumer products, food & beverage, or retail packaging environments
  
  Tops Skills Needed

Years experience?:

• 3-5 years of experience

Technology requirements?:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Smartsheets
• ServiceNow
• Quality Management System knowledge

Required background & Skills

• Strong packaging and material science background with emphasis in plastics, pulp, and paper (3-5 years)
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards or manufacturer and supplier quality system and product quality auditing with an emphasis in materials (3-5 years)
• Progressive experience managing the development and review of information required to comply with product safety and quality (3-5 years)
• Quality Management System knowledge including HACCP, GMPs, ISO or GFSI and BRC complaint standards. Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality GFSI requirements.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Will work with packaging engineer, ideally has a background with packaging
• Compliance Tracking
• Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e., testing, supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of single-use packaging materials/items including but not limited to: poly-coated paperboard (hot cups), polypropylene PP (cups and lids), polylactic acid PLA, poly-hydroxyalkanoic acids PHA, molded pulp, corrugate, containerboard, utensils, etc.
• Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals, metrics, audit data, customer feedback, regulator, and workgroup input.
• Identify trends and lead investigation and resolution of packaging related concerns from regulators, retail stores, field QA partners or internal and external customers.
• Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams, including internationally based partners, to deliver results within demanding timelines.
• Acts as a Retail Food Packaging Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new packaging initiatives or operating practices.

Interaction level with team:

• Highly interactive, will partner with varying partner teams

Nice-to-Haves:

• Similar experience with their previous roles

Disqualifiers:

• Job hopping (not completing contracts)
• Poorly formatted resume/typos
• Missing must have skills