Director of Quality Food Safety Business Partner

At WK Kellogg Co, we exist to create joy and connection to inspire Gr-r-reat days. We believe that doing good is always good for business and we have stood for this since Kellogg Company was founded more than 120 years ago. We are passionate about doing our part to make nutritious foods, create social connectivity and respect natural resources. Together, these actions create positive progress for people and the planet – today and for years to come. We have big plans for how we are going to accomplish this, and we would love for you to join us in this effort.

The Director of Quality Food Safety (QFS) Business Partner – External Plant Network provides active leadership and sets priorities for quality, food safety and sanitation programs for the WK Kellogg Co RTEC External Network. Directs and coordinates plant quality, food safety, and sanitation personnel that enable the effective execution of innovation, policies, and standards through the delivery of tools, technical competency and capability building across all External Network plants, Co-Mans & Co-Packers. Enables delivery of Business growth plans.

Ensures the investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for serious and escalated issues. Responsible for functional development of direct reports.

Is a member of WK Kellogg Co QFS Leadership team.

• •Manages travel budget
• •Manages 4 Direct reports
• •Ensures KIWS (Kellogg Integrated Work Systems) as the way of working
• •Ensures robust capability building to enable effective coaching and development with RTEC External Network plants
• •Balances plant assignment workloads and prioritizing teams to assist in plant problem solving

• •Provides support to establish and effectively implement the Kellogg Integrated Work System (KIWS) and works effectively to ensure alignment of standards and approach. Responsible for building essential quality management skills, experience, and leadership both within assigned direct and indirect teams.
• •Provides technical guidance and interprets application of WK Kellogg global policies to develop and implement site specific quality and food safety procedures that meet regulatory and WK Kellogg expectations.
• •Manages the on-site plant support of quality innovation and quality improvement initiatives with R&D leads to assure adherence against compliance to design standards. Supports execution of supply chain requests (SCRs) and packaging work requests (PWRs) to assure adherence against WK Kellogg Co policy and compliance with design standards.
• •Make responsible decisions regarding quality, food safety and sanitation matters with WK Kellogg Co External Network plants. Operates with broad management authority, receiving minimum technical guidance and control; limited by general science-based policies and objectives of the organization. Keeps management informed of all matters of significant importance.
• •Ensures sites specific RCA & CAPA training and executes periodic mock recalls and inspections to ensure effectiveness of processes.
• •Use influence to achieve quality objectives in manufacturing and non-manufacturing functions. Extensive use of quality reviews, conference calls, plant visits, management updates, and quality metric reporting to communicate status and progress against objectives.
• •Select, train, develop, direct, and motivate an effective staff. Promotes diversity programs, recognition, and administers the Talent Management process to include the PDP process for performance evaluations and individual development plans including significant input for the plant QFS Managers.

• •Must be accessible 24 X 7, including holidays and weekends to handle RTEC issues and plant operational needs.
• •High level of travel required.
• •Incumbent must be able to deal with stress and make sound decisions quickly, and at times with incomplete information.
• •Must be able to manage large volumes of information and determine business relevant issues.
• •Must be able to work and understand the environment dynamics of Corporate Headquarters, manufacturing, broader supply chain and regulatory environment.