Director, Supplier Management Program

What You'll Do for Us

• Driving implementation of The Coca-Cola Quality System (KORE) and ensures supplier products, packages, ingredients, services and production facilities comply with the requirements of KORE and local regulations, through directing the development and implementation of effective quality programs throughout the geography.
• Monitoring the effectiveness of Quality and Food Safety programs to ensure 100% compliance with quality principles, policies, and standards of the Company in all end-to-end Quality/Food Safety Assessments and ensure that corrective action/continuous improvement plans are developed.
• Developing and implementing business plans to execute Company's and OU's Quality & Food Safety strategy including compliance tracking, review/approval of new supplier, follow-up new technologies/trends, and investigate/share the best practices and their applications onsite; offers solutions to technical problems and provides guidance on Quality & Food Safety matters.
• Provideing technical expertise to suppliers for establishment of new plants, processes and line investments and conducts technical validation programs together with supplier in order to qualify and authorize new or modified process systems and/or equipment.
• Managing ingredients and package quality performance in the market and bottler plants to improve quality; conducts supplier audit and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Providing guidelines to suppliers on various sampling requirements of The Coca-Cola Company and facilitates suppliers by creating liaison between them and company/3rd party laboratories.
• Developing new processes and quality system applications, identifies technical investment needs and monitors the effectiveness of developments in order to provide a new category products manufacturing capability in supplier plants.
• Conducting regular supplier plant visits to support and monitor quality and manufacturing processes and provides integrated technical support, expertise and guidance during the implementation.
• Training supplier for KORE requirements, laboratory analyses, manufacturing processes and quality system if needed.
• Making sure supplier meets TCCC SGP & GPM system

• Bachelor's degree in food science, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology or related field is required.
• Excellent background to lead team to achieve great results
• 8+ years of work experience with progression of quality systems management in a manufacturing environment preferably in the food industry. Beverage industry experience is better.
• Demonstrated successful experience and abilities in the areas of: Quality Management Systems and applications (ISO 9001, Lean, Six Sigma, GFSI, etc.), food regulatory. Familiar with SGP & GPM system.
• Must have capability to review, analyze, summarize, and interpret quality systems data, draw conclusions, interpret quality systems data, draw conclusions, make appropriate decisions and recommendations, write reports and give oral presentations.
• Advanced analytical, problem solving, facilitation and communication skills
• Demonstrated skill to persuade/influence both internally and externally to the function and organization.
• Management system knowledge and auditing process knowledge
• Ability to understand risks and create mitigation plans.
• Knowledge of packaging, product, and ingredient
• Experience with Program Measurement and Measurement Verification are ideal
• Excellent written and oral English & Chinese