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Quality Pillar Leader-1302393
– Northfield, IL
Description
Kraft Foods Group is
one of the most admired and largest food and beverage businesses in North
America. We’re also one of the largest worldwide among publicly traded
consumer packaged food and beverage companies, based on our 2012 combined
net revenues of $18.7 billion.
We manufacture
and market food and beverage products, including convenient meals,
Refreshment beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products,
primarily in the United States and Canada, under a host of iconic brands.
Our product categories span breakfast, lunch and dinner meal occasions,
both at home and in foodservice locations.
Our diverse brand
portfolio consists of many of the most popular food brands in North
America, Including three brands with annual net revenues exceeding $1 billion
each – Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats;
and Maxwell House coffees – plus over 20 brands with annual net
revenues of between $100 million and $1 billion each.
In the United
States, based on dollar share in 2012, we hold the number one branded share
position in a majority of our 50 product categories, as well as in 18 of
our top 20 product categories. We hold the number two branded share
position in the other two product categories.
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This position
drives the continuous improvement agenda for the company Quality Chain
Management System across the BU’s including RDQI and Kraft Foods plants.
The position provides visible quality leadership ensuring that KFG quality
standards and policies are clearly defined; programs are developed,
standardized, understood and met. This position brings best practices
forward for replication across the enterprise and ensures that best
practices are replicated across the BU’s. The position leads the Continuous
Improvement strategy for both design and conformance quality and best in
class cost of quality by utilizing L6S tools. The position has managerial
responsibilities including coaching, and developing the Quality
organization to have the skill to execute the integrated lean six sigma
agenda.
Responsibilities:
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Ensure standards i.e. policies, programs, systems and
universal standard work are developed and implemented
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Leadership of ISC Quality Pillar implementation
across the enterprise
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Develops and continuously improves the Quality Chain
Management System (QCMS)
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Ensures that policies, programs, procedures, and
systems are effective and monitors through compliance mechanisms such as
internal plant auditing, field quality and sanitation visits.
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Responsible for cost of quality measurement KPI’s and
application across the enterprise.
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Lead design quality agenda within RDQ and develops
training for the product/package/process developers
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Drive Continuous Improvement
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Stabilize the quality system, by delivering a
standard work approach and to ensure implementation across the enterprise
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Track, report and review the network quality
performance indicators on a regular basis to drive continuous improvement
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Coach BU and plant pillar leaders to drive
improvement utilizing statistical tools
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Monitor process capability against specifications and
drive improvement utilizing statistical tools
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Coach the organization on effective Root cause
analysis and implement corrective action and preventative action.
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Identify best practices and implement continuous
improvement opportunities driving commercialization excellence across all
BU/Plants
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Leads the training agenda to improve basic skill
level for DMAIC process, DFSS, Lean, Metrology, MSA, Sampling procedures
Qualifications
LEADERSHIP SKILLS:
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Command Skills and Managerial Courage
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Business Acumen
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Motivating Others
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Organizational Agility
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Dealing with Ambiguity and Timely Decision Making
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Experience leading and working with cross-functional
teams with strong people development skills and creating effective
strategies and programs
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Change Management
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
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Bachelor's Degree
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12-15 years of experience in food or CPG leading the
CI agenda
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Experience in plant and corporate Quality
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Experience in Supply Chain and/or RDQI
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Deep knowledge of quality systems and policies, HACCP,
and ISO/GFSI systems
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Practical experience in processed food manufacture
with emphasis on high risk products such as ready to eat meat, dairy, and
thermally processed shelf stable items.
TECHNICAL OR
OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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Master Black Belt, IL6S implementation experience
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Food Safety and Regulatory requirements
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Fundamental statistics (DMAIC
Process/DFSS/Lean/metrology/MSA/sampling procedures)
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CQE preferred
Kraft Foods is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Kraft recruits qualified
applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or
national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic
information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital
status or citizenship status.
Job
: Quality
Primary
Location
: NA-US-IL-Northfield
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