Food Safety & Quality Specialist
Job Location: Pune
Company description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
Three to five years of experience as a Food Safety and Quality professional, responsible for supporting the accurate collection, validation, and reporting of market data related to product quality, ensuring compliance with Ferrero Group FSQ standards. This role assists in maintaining high product quality and driving continuous improvement by providing reliable data, coordinating field activities, and supporting the implementation of quality initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support to test and monitor market performance of innovation and seasonal brands across RTMs.
• Ensure smooth execution of panel activities across all locations, managing channels and clusters.
• Check perceived quality pictures daily and upload in system
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reports, as well as ad hoc analyses.
• Check perceived quality bills and manage PQ accounts – submit bills to finance.
• Educate distributors on maintaining warehouse quality.
• Conduct quality check at CFA & Distributor WHs
• Plan and coordinate for Distributor warehouse audits as per guidelines.
• Ensure Online temperature monitoring at Distributors to maintain WH Temp. compliance by continues monitoring.
• Provide information and guide Panel team for conducting transit tests.
• Provide support to field Panel team field activities and training for the team.
• Drive quality improvements interventions/ projects and coordinate closely working with Panel team, Pilot Officers & Distributor Officers
• Visi-Coolers Quality management - Conduct regular quality checks; monitor temperature, hygiene, and stock rotation. Escalate issues promptly and ensure timely corrective and preventive actions. Prepare Visi-Cooler tracking report monthly.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Coordinate and ensure reporting on time from all locations
2. Coordinate and conducting Perceived Quality check at POS level.
3. Manage, check and control perceived quality accounts and submitting bills on time to Finance
4. Co-ordinate and conduct distributor Warehouse audits and provide proper training for Supervisors and QA's.
5. Coordinate and conduct transit tests and generate result and submit it on time.
6. Visi-Cooler project management
Who we are looking for:
EDUCATION
Graduation in Science / Food Technology, Management with 1 - 3 years of experience in food industry
Referral Code : C
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.