Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill's food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Supplier Qualification Specialist is responsible for performing food safety risk management activities for products, external manufacturing facilities, and other services relevant to the safe production of food and feed. In this role, you will collaborate with multifunctional teams to find and reduce quality risks. You will work with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns, as well as collaborate on audits. Key Accountabilities
Performs ongoing relationship management activities such as establishing key performance indicators, building a supplier scorecard, trending of claims and complaints and maintenance of required documentation.
Follows up on corrective actions to ensure that actions are taken in the appropriate time frame and key partners are informed.
Audits production processes, raw materials, or suppliers/vendors ensuring established quality standards are met.
Works closely with cross-functional teams, including product design, product management, and production, to identify and mitigate quality risks.
Conducts root cause analysis for defects, non-conformities, or other quality failures.
Ensures compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
Provides training, coaching, and mentoring to new team members.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with mínimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned.
**Qualifications**:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineer, Food Engineer or equivalent experience
- Experience in food safety, quality, and auditing systems
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Knowledge of Food Safety Management Systems and FSSC 22000/GMP+
- Experience in conducting food safety audits
- Professional language proficiency in English both written and verbal
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- Car driver license
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to objectively evaluate food safety systems and report findings in an organized manner
- Understanding of how to establish material risk and appropriate mitigation
- Food safety auditor
- Spanish intermediate level
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