(USA) Senior Manager, Quality Assurance - Private Brand Food
Walmart
- Bentonville, AR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You are adept at working with a large supplier base across a broad range of categories and internal stakeholders.
- You have a passion for delivering outstanding quality items for our customers and ensuring products are well-designed to deliver on customer expectations.
- You are a strong influencer and problem solver who enjoys working with cross functional partners and internal clients.
- You are data savvy and a strong communicator: you can analyze performance, identify trends and critical differences, and create actions plans that deliver results.
- You are tenacious, dedicated, agile, and a self-starter: you can adapt approach to ever-changing business requirements and will do whatever's needed to finish on schedule while still ensuring sufficient quality standards are maintained.
- Developing customer-winning products: you'll assure quality during development supporting areas from supplier approval & specification development through product qualification & production approval.
- Assuring in-market product quality: you'll closely assess the quality of our Private Brand items across multiple metrics, reporting results & identifying areas of opportunity, and driving successful correction action.
- Influencing decisions: you'll leverage your knowledge and expertise and will regularly collaborate with product developers, merchants, and suppliers to answer key business questions and respond to issues.
- Building relationships: you'll work closely with 3rd party labs and other cross-functional partners to refine our quality monitoring programs and ensure optimal execution.
- Knowing your categories: You'll provide valued subject matter expertise on quality requirements, technical solutions, and resources for the categories you support and are always thinking about ways to improve.
- Master's or Doctoral degree in engineering, science, or similar technical field.
- 8+ years' experience in food quality assurance, product development, manufacturing, or related area.
- Knowledge of both USDA and FDA requirements.
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g. ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Six Sigma, or similar) relevant to the Quality Assurance field.
- Expertise in Statistical Analyses or Data Visualization.
- Multiple health plan options, including vision & dental plans for you & dependents
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase plans, life insurance and more
- Associate discounts in-store and online
- Education assistance for Associate and dependents
- Parental Leave
- Pay during military service
- Paid Time off - to include vacation, sick, parental
- Short-term and long-term disability for when you can't work because of injury, illness, or childbirth