High-impact Food & Quality Assurance Evangelist, who is passionate about building food safety standards & systems across multiple set-ups, for driving food safety culture to the next level. Drives comprehensive global market food safety programs, conducting risk assessments, supplier conformance, and bringing process excellence while meeting expectations at all levels across the business. Integrates key strategies to drive and sustain a transformation in food safety, and ensure compliance in sync with company policies, food safety standards, regulations, internal audits, supplier audits and industry best practices. Improves processes to stabilize products as per parameters –with accountability to meet the standards and expectations that assure the food safety of products (HACCP & GMP norms). Collaborative leadership style, infused with positivism – groom teams into cohesive units of performers and encourage a performance-driven culture.
More than 21 years of experience in Meat, Poultry, Seafoods, juices, Mayonnaise, Sauces, Meals, Sushi, Vegetables, juices/beverages and freeze-dried products methodical processing, Statistical Process Control, Food Equipment and Machinery, internal & supplier audits, 250+ batches of training on HACCP, FSMS, ISO 4500, and Microbiology, Biochemistry & Analytical Chemistry Laboratories, including Equipment Operations and calibrations
• Food Safety & Supplier Quality Management: Conducting food safety risk assessments for process compliance and ensuring adherence to ISO-GSO and GMP quality systems; delivering supplier qualification program for assessing the supplier's authenticity, verification, and integrity.
• Food Production: Provide leadership for the Food Production Department, directing operations to ensure that safety, quality, environmental, production output, product cost, and other department objectives are achieved.
• Risk Identification: Deploying my risk assessment skills (regulatory requirements, food safety, and quality risks; providing corporate guidance to assess, control, and resolve food safety risks.
• Production & Process Excellence: Streamlining the production parameters, by timely planning/execution and surplus / or deficit product supply and distribution; bringing in process excellence by following the latest trends within the ongoing process, competitive benchmarking, and augmenting productivity.
• Regulatory Compliance: Leading all regulatory and food safety activities to ensure product compliance and alignment including compliance with legal matters/ regulatory approvals/registration/ licensing activities.
• Team Leadership: Providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to employees in the Food, Safety and Quality department; offering food safety training according to the store needs using teachable moments during assessments and recommending more formal training
_______________ SKILLS & COMPETENCIES_______________
• HACCP Level 3
• FSSC 22000 v6 Lead Auditor
• ISO 22000:2018 Lead Auditor
• BRC i6 Internal Auditor
• Documentation and 100% traceability
• Quality Management Food Safety
• Food Safety Standards & Regulations
• Food Microbiology & Biochemistry
• Lab Instrumentation & Calibrations
• IT Skills: ERP/ SAP/ IMI/ Oracle
• Hygiene & Sanitation
• Food R&D Validations
• Preservatives & Cultures
• Spices Formulations
• Lengthen Shelf life
• Nutritional Analysis
• Menu engineering
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk assessment and CAPA
• Supply Chain & Procurement
• Negotiations & Contracts
• Inventory Controls
• Capital Management
• Strong multi-tasking skills