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Group Quality Management System (QMS) Associate Manager Date: Aug 31, 2026
Location: Lainate, IT, 20020
Main Purpose of the role The role serves as the key integrator across Quality, Food Safety, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D; and Regulatory, ensuring that the Quality Management System effectively supports risk management, business growth, operational excellence, and product superiority.
Through strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration, the Global QMS Associate Manager drives harmonization, simplification, and digital transformation, enabling a culture of quality excellence and consumer focus across the enterprise.
What you will do
- Define and maintain the global end-to-end Quality Management System strategy and framework.
- Develop and govern global policies, standards, procedures, and requirements that support quality and food safety excellence.
- Ensure alignment between the Quality Management System and the company's business objectives, consumer expectations, and regulatory requirements.




- Drive the harmonization and simplification of quality processes across all regions and manufacturing sites.
- Design and implement the global QMS governance model, including roles, responsibilities, escalation processes, and decision-making mechanisms.
- Define and facilitate governance routines, including management reviews, performance reviews, and quality councils.
- Monitor the effectiveness of governance processes and continuously improve organizational routines.
- Coordinate cross-functional alignment between Quality, Operations, R&D;, Procurement, and Regulatory
- Define the global quality performance framework, including KPIs, scorecards, and leading and lagging indicators.
- Develop single source of truth, dashboards and visualization tools to support global quality governance.
- Lead the integration of international standards such as ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, GMP, HACCP, and GFSI requirements into t

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