What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP of Food Safety & Quality position at Sartori Company?
SUMMARY
The Vice President of Food Safety and Quality plays a pivotal role in our mission to create the Best Cheese in the World. This leader will drive a quality-focused culture grounded in our values of commitment, integrity, and excellence. The Vice President will lead, enhance, and sustain best-in-class food safety and manufacturing quality programs that exceed customer expectations and meet our high standards for safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. Leveraging SQF, GFSI, and our Global Quality Policy, this role ensures adherence to global regulations and champions initiatives that drive continuous improvement. Success is achieved through strategic leadership, the development and training of team members, and a culture of accountability. This leader will embed quality accountability at every level, ensuring our commitment to delivering excellence and exceeding customer expectations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Team Leadership : Lead through Sartori’s values to develop and engage a dynamic team of quality, food safety, laboratory, and regulatory team members, fostering a culture of development, integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Customer Leadership : Develop relationships with key customers, building confidence in Sartori food safety and quality programs. They will coach others to proactively align communications with our customers' food safety and quality counterparts, ensuring a consistent and best-in-class approach. This role significantly enhances customer relationships and strengthens our brand reputation.
- Strategy Development : Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and R&D to develop, implement, and communicate a clear strategic vision and maximize resource alignment to ensure the best food safety and quality outcomes for our customers.
- Budget Management : Oversee the food safety, quality, and regulatory budget, ensuring proactive planning for continuous improvement through investments in equipment and team development.
- Capital Project Leadership : Provide leadership for the food safety and quality elements of capital projects, ensuring all processes maintain and / or improve our standards.
- KPI and Dashboard Development : Lead the creation and implementation of management reporting dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and optimize our food safety and quality programs.
- Food Safety, Manufacturing Quality, and Regulatory Monitoring : Stay abreast of emerging trends and concepts for food safety, quality, and regulations. Continuously evaluate and improve the organization's tools, processes, and methodologies to perform best in class.
- Data-Driven Decision-Making : Drive the team's adoption of data and science-based decision-making to achieve superior performance. Analyze non-compliance, first-pass quality, and testing results and develop a plan for actions to improve.
- Continuous Improvement : Create an environment of continuous improvement by using and championing continuous improvement tools and techniques
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
EDUCATION and / or EXPERIENCE
OTHER KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to handle or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands or arms. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to non-weather related cold, heat, wet and / or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, caustic sanitation chemicals and manufacturing cellulose powder. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by Team Members assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Sartori Company reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational and business needs, as necessary.
