Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality Baked Goods, Snacks, & Griddle

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America's Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

We are seeking a Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) Baked Goods, Snacks, & Griddle, to join our team based in Oak Brook, IL. This role will play a critical leadership role in developing and executing the company's FSQ strategy across the entire enterprise supply chain. This individual will oversee the implementation of operational food safety and quality systems, ensuring alignment with company-wide policies and regulatory standards. Collaborating closely with Quality Systems, Supply Chain, Business, and Commercial partners, the Senior Director will drive continuous improvement to meetand exceedcustomer, consumer, and regulatory expectations. They will also champion a strong culture of food safety and quality, leading field-based Quality Pillar teams to deliver operational excellence across all manufacturing locations.

You'll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Provides leadership and oversight to compliance, quality and food safety programs across operations. Promotes continuous improvement strategies, especially in the world of changing regulations.
• Proactively leads team in the development of systems, knowledge, capabilities, and practices in order to comply with all applicable food safety regulations, company procedures and FSQ Regulatory audits (such as customer, GSFI, Regulatory and identity preserved).
• Promotes the development and implementation of programs for conducting risk assessments, verification, validation and monitoring of effectiveness of food safety plans, company food safety procedures and regulations for current processes and new line and equipment commissioning.
• Monitors emerging issues related to food safety and quality and leads development and implementation of strategies, policies and procedures to mitigate. Delivers expertise and technical advice on complex and critical food safety concerns. Reports on developments, strategies and implementation to Food Safety & Compliance Steering Committee.
• Lead and develop the Corporate Sanitation Manager as they support the manufacturing locations under their responsibility.
• Communicates prioritization and status of initiatives to organizational leadership to ensure timelines and compliance dates are met.
• Ensure manufacturing facilities maintain GFSI certification and internal FS&Q System compliance.
• Strategically identify CI opportunities for the business and utilize Continuous Improvement tools such as SPC, Six Sigma, Lean, Root Cause Analysis, and others to drive FS&Q improvement.
• Assign, coordinate and review the technical work of the department or project teams; while remaining a subject matter expert in the categories they support.
• Lead facilities in the adoption and disciplined use of the commercialization process for new product/process launches and redesigns by establishing relationships with Commercialization, Research and Development, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, and Operations.
• Support Engineering, Procurement, and other supply chain initiatives, ensuring projects meet all required food processing parameters while maintaining required FS&Q standards and financial objectives.
• Management of programs designed to improve FS&Q-based trends from customers/consumers comments, internal deviations, and industry trends. Develop improvement goals and lead improvement efforts for each plant against defined KPIs.
• Support plant audits/inspections as needed by Government agencies, Customers, and or Third-Party groups.
• Interface with the Divisional leaders on new or expanded product opportunities.
• Provide technical support to Commercial and Customer Affairs teams regarding customer responses and meetings.
• Contribute to the development of the annual Divisional Strategic Plan.
• Develop team member skill sets by conducting evaluations and recommending development opportunities through the use of continuing education, seminars, trade shows, and other methods.
• Coaches, mentors and supports professional development of employees. Coordinates work and sets priorities to meet objectives.
• Promotes consistency and aligns across plants where possible.
• Extended member of the division leadership team to provide technical support for commercialization and a food safety and quality approach to business.
• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list of all tasks. Additional tasks and duties may be assigned from time to time as necessitated by business needs.

Important Details:

• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $185,600 to $278,000 annually. This is the lowest to highest salary that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.
• This is a full-time, hybrid role on first shift.

You'll fit right in if you have:

• 10 + years of leadership experience in Food Safety and Food Quality.
• Bachelor's Degree Required in Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, Master's degree is preferred.
• HACCP certification, SQF practitioner and PCQI certification preferred.
• Experience with Bakery processing preferred.
• Experience with food safety systems such as HACCP, GFSI, and preventive controls theory and methodology, product traceability, and third party audits.
• Must be a strong advocate of compliance, an experienced trainer, and an accomplished manager of technical resources.
• Required in-depth knowledge of regulatory (FDA/CFIA) requirements and their interpretation such as Current Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory Practices, Risk-based Preventative Controls, Food Defense, Stability Guidelines, Sanitation practices, and Sanitary Design as it relates to food manufacturing.
• Experience managing multiple, remote locations and leading through influence
• Experience providing supervision, guidance, effective training and counsel to others.
• Ability to understand and analyze issues involving food manufacturing, project management, technical and legal documents and schematics.
• Ability to understand food and environmental regulations and their impact on the organization, and our customers.
• Strong organizational, communication and collaboration skills
• Must be able to travel up to 50%.

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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us "Engage and Delight One Customer at a Time". TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com.