Senior Quality & Food Safety (1-Year Contract)

Senior Quality & Food Safety (1-Year Contract)

Location: Bangkok

Employment Type: 1-Year Contract

About the Role

We are seeking a Quality & Food Safety professional to oversee Quality Management and Food Safety compliance across a global network of external manufacturing partners. This role will be responsible for ensuring that products manufactured by external suppliers consistently meet company standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations throughout the product lifecycle.

The successful candidate will serve as a key partner to contract manufacturers and internal stakeholders, leading supplier qualification, quality audits, risk assessments, product validation, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality products.

Key Responsibilities

External Manufacturing Quality Management

• Lead Quality & Food Safety activities for external manufacturing and co-packing partners.
• Assess and qualify new manufacturing partners through quality audits and risk evaluations.
• Ensure implementation and compliance of quality management systems, food safety requirements, and company standards across external manufacturing sites.
• Develop and maintain quality documentation, technical specifications, and risk assessments throughout the product lifecycle.

Supplier Quality & Compliance

• Conduct supplier audits and performance reviews to evaluate compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Monitor corrective and preventive action plans, ensuring timely closure and sustainable improvements.
• Drive supplier quality performance through continuous monitoring, coaching, and collaboration.

Product Qualification & Validation

• Support new product introductions and product transfer projects by leading quality qualification activities.
• Oversee product validation during pilot and commercial production runs.
• Ensure raw materials, manufacturing processes, and finished products meet defined quality and food safety requirements.

Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Identify, assess, and mitigate quality and food safety risks across the external manufacturing network.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions for quality incidents and customer complaints.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen supplier performance and quality systems.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with R&D, Supply Chain, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, and Commercial teams to support product development and commercialization activities.
• Provide Quality & Food Safety expertise during project execution and product lifecycle management.
• Support regulatory compliance and product registration activities where applicable.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Microbiology, Biology, Food Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Supplier Quality, or Quality Management within the Food, Beverage, Dairy, Nutrition, Pet Food, or FMCG industries.
• Experience conducting supplier audits and managing external manufacturing partners is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of food manufacturing processes and quality risk management.
• Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional and international stakeholders.
• Good command both Thai and English

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.