Unilever

THE VEGETARIAN BUTCHER (PART OF UNILEVER) IS LOOKING FOR A QUALITY LEAD - BREDA FACTORY

Location: Breda – the Netherlands

Full-time

Local conditions apply

Travel 5%

Meat to please you! At the Vegetarian Butcher we’re looking for new ‘meat on the block’ to join us in the biggest food revolution of all times.

On October 4th (world animal day) 2010 Jaap Korteweg, 9th generation farmer and meat lover, founded The Vegetarian Butcher. Together with a devoted team of chefs and scientists he created innovative and sustainable meat successors directly from beans and legumes. Great tasting meat products, perfect imeatations in flavor, texture and juiciness, but without the use of the animal. We sacrifice nothing! This was the start of our mission: to become the biggest butcher in the world.

At our core we are the purpose-driven rebels who want to be the first and the best on the plant-based meat-market. We try to make our mission a reality through Craftmanship, Human(e) Connections, Entrepreneurship, Rebelliousness, Humour, Passion, Optimism, Sustainability and Pioneering.

When Unilever acquired the company at the end of 2018, they joined in on this mission and committed to accelerate the biggest food revolution of all time. Since then the company is scaling-up fast. In this journey we are travelling (and expanding) at the speed of light and therefore we are looking for a Quality Lead for our Breda factory who has the passion to change the world!

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUR “CHOP” TO BE DONE 

• First point of contact SU Breda for quality related topics
• Maintain the Quality Management System and ensure compliance to the FSSC 22000 standard, lead contact for the certification audits
• Lead the Food Safety Management Review with key stakeholders
• Lead Internal audits for the production location in Breda
• Lead the HACCP team & control changes to the HACCP studies and documents in the quality manual of the factory
• Continuous quality improvement – complaints investigation, root cause analysis, CAPA activities and change management
• Manage block and release activities for raw materials and semi-finished product
• Trend analysis of key quality parameters and improvement activities
• Manage sampling plans, FPOC with external laboratory and calibration program
• Support quality transformation agenda as needed in line with Unilever Quality strategy
• Support project teams on innovation and capex activities related to Breda, including validations and risk assessment
• Lead quality training & upskilling programs
• Lead contact for external audits (for example supplier audits)
• Support in escalations and issue management with relevant teams

KEY REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS 'CHOP':

• Completed a food-technology- and/or quality management education or similar
• Minimum 5yrs experience in QA within an FMCG, preferably in chilled
• Aware & experience in the latest QA management systems, food safety, labelling & legislation, and aware of QSHE-principles
• HBO or University-level of working & thinking
• Good command of Dutch language (written and spoken)
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, specifically Excel
• Experience in relevant software, such as SAP
• Project management skills
• Detail-oriented & structured
• Strong communicative skills, approachable
• Autonomous
• Pragmatic thinker

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN ALL BUTCHERS:

• You understand and live our mission fully; so when you’re on the job, you are a Vegetarian Butcher!
• In essence: you are humble yet rebellious, entrepreneurial, energetic and fun! 
• Pro-active mindset
• Teamwork, easily connecting with others and effective cross-functional collaborator
• Analytical, critical & structured thinker
• Good communication skills (written & verbal) and being fluent in English
• Ability to work in a multi-functional, multi-cultural environment
• You embrace change, are curious, learn rapidly and easily adapt your ways of working.
• Good stamina, stress-management and self-care discipline; you love a challenge and enjoy riding this dynamic roller-coaster we call The Vegetarian Butcher

WHAT DOES THE VEGETARIAN BUTCHER OFFER?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.
• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.
• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office , you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products. 
• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).
• Home work allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Green Mobility Policy. 

EXCITED? 

Join The Vegetarian Butcher and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application. 

Looking forward to meeting you! 

Please note this is a Direct Search led by The Vegetarian Butcher. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs. 

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

NOTES:

Please save a copy of this vacancy for personal use as it will disappear from the website after closing of the role. Deadline for applying is at 23.59 the day before the Job Posting End Date.