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Food
Safety Manager, Private Brands Food Safety
Amazon.com Services LLC
Remote
Full-time
Job details
Job Type
Full-time
Benefits
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Health insurance
Full Job Description
- Bachelor’s
Degree in food science, microbiology or related field.
- Preventive
Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) Certification.
- 3 years of
experience in food manufacturing and/or auditing.
Job summary
At Amazon.com, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on
earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven
people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything
online, this is your chance to make history.
We are looking for a Food Safety Manager to join our Private Brands Food
Safety team.
Our vision for Food Safety is to support Amazon’s mission of offering the
widest selection of products available, while protecting customers from
potentially hazardous products. We are looking for a dynamic, organized
self-starter to join our Food Safety department, focusing on our private
label foods. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a highly visible
space and be part of a vibrant and fast-growing company!
Needed Skills and Abilities:
- Influencer:
Food Safety Manager with the ability to identify opportunities,
influence business teams and operations to gain support for food safety
and overcome resistance by creating strong, persuasive, balanced
positions through the use of data.
- Leader:
Significant experience collaborating with and influencing
cross-functional teams. Track record of implementing food safety
programs within a business.
- Doer: No job
is too trivial. Compliance leaders dive deep and have exceptional
attention to detail. Must have the ability to successfully visualize and
drive end-to-end process requirements, program implementation, and
continuous improvement, working through the many obstacles along the
way.
- Communicator:
Ability to communicate food safety and quality expectations and
requirements with business leaders and all cross-functional support
teams at all levels of the organization. Must have the ability to write
well-reasoned and data-driven white papers, leveraging science,
research, industry benchmarking and trends where necessary.
- Problem
Solver: Exceptional problem-solving skills required. Crisis events
require quick, high-judgment decisions, and the ability to direct teams
to work through difficult challenges.
Key job responsibilities
As a high-level summary the deliverables are:
- Improve and
drive consistency within Supplier Risk Assessments across all Private
Brand businesses. This informs and standardizes the management of all
Private Brand food safety controls.
- Support the
Amazon Audit Program through coordinating food safety and quality audits
with manufacturing facilities including communication of audit process
and scheduling.
- Perform
calibration audits with third party providers against the Amazon Audit
Standard.
- Review audit
reports and close out corrective action plans within agreed to
timeframe.
- Refine audit
process as needed.
- Manage third
party auditing providers.
- Define and
monitor metrics to track compliance and process effectiveness.
- Propose and
work independently on projects that drive efficiencies and
standardization.
- Keep abreast
of emerging issues in food safety and quality as it relates to
manufacturing facilities and laboratory testing.
- Exceptional
risk assessment skills (regulatory requirements, safety and quality
risks).
- Ability to
work independently and autonomously.
- Self-motivated
with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting.
- Ability to
travel 20% of the time.
- Master’s
Degree in food science, microbiology or related field.
- Understanding
of various food product categories and processing steps.
- In-depth
knowledge of GFSI standards and how they relate to each other.
- Experience
working with international suppliers.
The pay range for this position in
Colorado is $ 74,000 to $129,800 [yr]; however,
base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and
experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as
part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical,
financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This
information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information
is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or
external careers site.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal
opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national
origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran
status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals
with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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