Ice Cream Asia Innovation Quality Support Manager

Unilever (Thailand) (Lat Krabang)

Bangkok, Thailand

Unilever Thai Group of Companies is a fast-moving consumer goods company with a strong presence in Thailand for more than 80 years. Unilever offers Thai consumers a wide range of leading brands in four categories; Home Care, Personal Care, Foods and Ice cream products. Our Thai portfolio includes major brand icons such as: Comfort, Lux, Vaseline, Citra, Sunsilk, Clear, Pond’s, Dove, Axe, Rexona, Close Up, Breeze, Omo, Sunlight, Knorr, Wall’s, Magnum, Cornetto, Lipton and luxury division Unilever Network. Unilever Thailand employs around 4,000 people and generated annual sales of Baht 40,000 million in 2014.

About this position

Unilever is hiring for the position of Ice Cream Asia Innovation Quality Support Manager, based in Minburi Factory, Ladkrabang Industrial Estate. This role focuses on ensuring consumer safety and product quality in innovation projects across Asia.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the tracking Key Performance Indicators of the site related to Innovation
• Participate in the cross functional team composed of representatives from R&D, Planning and SUIT in the conduct of Technical Risk Assessment for defined New Innovation projects and processes in Asia.
• Equip with full operational knowledge on identifying, prioritizing and providing full quality which includes PQS concerns and food safety view on TRA, follow up and ensure the mitigating actions in addressing the mentioned risks are taken timely and before commercial production.
• Support ensuring that quality and food safety related parameters are considered in the technical risk assessment, design HACCP and Batch Trial Runs
• Use appropriate tools and prioritization techniques in providing solution to noted quality and consumer safety issues on innovation and new products.

Requirements

• Technically competent, qualified, skilled and capable to conduct technical risk assessments.
• Knowledge and skill on the process, materials and QMS are required to dynamically enable or carry out the necessary changes without compromising Product Quality and Consumer Safety.
• Actively works with the Sourcing Unit Innovation Team, R&D, Procurement, Production and Projects Team in ensuring flawless execution of innovation projects.
• Responsible for providing regular analysis of E Incidents, RCA on EA, EB and EC rejections from Suppliers, COA Analysis, 3P lab annual analysis for products, SKU reference for new products and innovations, TRA and design phase HACCP control plan.
• Works closely with the site Hygienist on cleaning and allergen validation for new products and processes.