Associate Manager Quality Assurance

**Your Opportunity as the Associate Manager, Quality Assurance**This role ensures co-manufactured, co-packed, and repacked products meet FDA and JMS quality and food safety standards through effective oversight of external manufacturing facilities, personnel, and QA and operational programs.**Location:**Orrville, OH**Work Arrangements:**Monday to Friday - Hybrid**In this role you will:*** Lead and support co-pack/co-man partnerships by auditing, managing relationship, and seeking continuous improvement opportunities.* Support R&D teams during on-site production start-ups, trials, and commercialization activities to ensure quality and food safety expectations are met.* Maintain current, accurate, and copacker documentation to support TraceGains requirements.* Manage, share, and update Prodika specification systems to ensure product information remains accurate, complete, and aligned with business needs.* Partner with cross-functional teams to advance innovation, transformation projects, portfolio changes, and other strategic business initiatives.* Contribute to additional quality assurance projects and business priorities as needed – complaint management, ETQ Holds, scorecard ownership, and other activities pertinent to achieving high co-pack/co-man standards.**What we are looking for:**Minimum Requirements: * Bachelor's degree is required in Food Science or related scientific degree* Minimum 2-3 years of quality/food safety experience in food manufacturing plant environment* Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (human or animal food) or HACCP experience is preferredAdditional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:* Solid working knowledge of quality assurance, food manufacturing, food safety, processing, packaging, and distribution* Strong ability to work in cross-functional & team-oriented environment with multiple disciplines* Proven capabilities in project management* Better Process Control School Certified* Self-starter; take charge, positive & proactive attitude* Ability to lead several projects altogether and concurrently* Detail & process oriented with strong problem-solving skillsets + Strong computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); other systems desired (ETQ, Prodika, SharePoint, TraceGains, Centric, etc.)* Ability to communicate clearly within the organization and externally* Excellent written and verbal communication skills* High emotional intelligence and ability to work with ever changing conditions* Position may require up to 40% travel annually #J-18808-Ljbffr The J.M. Smucker Company