Sourcing Quality Assurance Specialist

Sourcing Quality Assurance Specialist

#BoltonFood

About Us:

Bolton Group is an Italian family-owned multinational that has been producing and distributing a wide range of innovative, sustainable, high-quality fast-moving consumer goods for over 70 years. The Group's portfolio - which features some of the biggest brands in the Food, Home Care, Adhesives, Personal Care and Cosmetic sectors - includes over 50 successful brands that enter in the homes of 100 million families in more than 150 countries all over the world, every day.

The Group relies on the contribution of 11,000 employees in 59 offices, 16 production facilities, 7 Research & Development labs and 17 fishing boats around the world, allowing it to deliver quality products through sustainable processes with low environmental impacts.

Bolton Food is a Bolton Group company that manufactures and markets high quality food products and premium brands. These brands testify to the company’s commitment to quality, taste, innovation and sustainability.

Bolton Food is an Italian and international success story. Leader in the production of canned fish in Italy with the brands Rio Mare and Palmera, it is also at the first place in Europe in the market of canned tuna. Rio Mare is present in 40 countries around the world, holding a leading market position in many of them.

Bolton Food also produces and markets Simmenthal, a historic Italian brand synonymous with canned meat. The company is based in Milan with factories located in Cermenate for the production of fish products and in Aprilia for the production of canned meat, also holds several fishing vessels.

Main Activities:

• Setting and Updating technical documentation regarding raw material, packaging material, canned products and services.
• Ensuring that suppliers have the correct technical documentation when they have to provide goods of services to Bolton Food
• Managing the approval process for new materials or new suppliers.
• Coordinating the supplier process rating
• Managing the second-part audits implementation, caring for the audit scheduling, the updating of the documentation needed to perform the audit (check-list), the deviation analysis and the corrective action implementation
• Setting the control plan for the outsourced canned products.
• Managing the noncompliances referring to suppliers.

Stakeholders

Hierarchical relationship : regularly reports to his manager

Internal relationship : Regularly keeps in touch with the Quality Control team, the Food Safety & Quality Management System function and the Procurement Team

External relationship : strong contact with suppliers and Certification Bodies

What we are looking for

• Education : Food Engineer or Food Technologist
• Work experience : 5 years minimum in the Food or Agriculture business ; asked for experience in Quality, R&D or Production area ; expert audit

Hard skills :

- Data analysis and reporting

- Microsoft Office

- Risk analysis

- Languages :

o Italian (native language or C2)

o English (B2)

o French (optional)

o Spanish (optional)

Soft skills :

- Work ethic

- Persuasiveness

- Adaptability

- Problem solving

- Trustworthiness

- Time management

- Analytical thinking

Location: Cermenate, CO