India Foods fsq Executive nashik

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India Foods Business is a full-service manufacturing and marketing unit comprising over 500 employees spread across over multiple locations across India. Our strong suite of products includes the Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs and Nature Valley brands in both direct-to-consumer and B2B channels across Retail, Food Service and Bakeries & Exports. We combine the capabilities of a global enterprise with the entrepreneurial spirit and cultural awareness you would expect of a smaller local company.

**Job Description**:
POSITION TITLE : FSQ Executive

REPORTS TO : Asst. Manager - Food Safety & Quality

LOCATION : Nashik, Maharashtra

**About General Mills Worldwide**

Headquartered in Minnesota, US, General Mills, with $18.1 billion in net sales (2021) and more than 36,000 employees worldwide, is in the top 10 largest food companies in the world. Named one of the ‘Top 100 Companies to Work For’ by Fortune Magazine, General Mills is a highly focused consumer foods company providing products that enhance nutrition, shorten preparation times, provide health benefits, enable on-the-go eating and, of course, taste great.

Our brands including Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Nature Valley, Häagen-Dazs, Yoplait, Old El Paso, Progresso, Totino’s, Annie’s and Small Plant Foods, in addition to strong local brands from around the world, and an emerging Bakeries & Foodservice business. General Mills is also partners in two international Joint Ventures - Cereal Partners Worldwide (with Nestle), and Haagen-Dazs Japan (with Suntory). Visit for more information on us.

**India Foods Business Unit**

General Mills has recently gone through a major reorganization, whereby EUAU & ASLA has been combined to work together as an international organization. International Operating model has been further simplified with four units, Europe & Australia, Global Emerging Markets (GEMS), Brazil & China. India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea & Distribution market are part of GEMS with contribution of $1billion in revenue.

Snacks Business Unit finds its presence in IMEA & NSEA markets with the portfolio consisting of Betty Crocker & Pillsbury range of retail cake mixes, ready to eat cookies and cakes, Nature Valley granola bars, Fruit snacks and Bugles.

To support the Snacks business in Asia, currently we have 3 General Mills owned manufacturing plants at Nashik - India, Anseong - Korea & Nanjing - China and several external supply chain partners manufacturing out products.

**Nashik Plant Supports the Following Businesses**
- Retail cake mixes for India & International markets of Southeast Asia and South Africa.
- Bakeries business in India
- Food service chains with frozen tortilla capabilities
- Food Service chains with Frozen dough capabilities
- Ready to Easy snacks like Choco lava muffin cakes for India
- Frozen flat breads for exports out of India mainly meant for ethnic Indian diaspora.
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The Role**:
Supply Chain Director, India
- Plant Manager
- Nashik_

Food Safety & Quality Manager, _Nashik_
- FSQ Executive
- Nashik_

Asst Manager - Quality, _Nashik_
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Purpose of the Position**:
This position will work in shifts (A, B & C) closely with Platform team to provide excellence in quality, regulatory, and food safety enable / support in execution / leadership for Food safety & quality capability building. The role will have responsibility for product quality and food safety for the Platform / plant based in Nashik. The purpose is to continuously improve quality & Food safety systems and ensure regulatory and policy compliance.
- **Key Responsibilities & Expectations**:

- Provide people leadership and development for our FSQ technician team in the shifts & Supplier Quality
- Provide FSQ leadership and direction through technical mastery in the areas of regulatory compliance, sanitation, materials/packaging, risk assessment, defect handling, and FSRA
- Provide leadership and technical support for Quality & Food safety system leader, HMM, reformulations, and new product trials / start-ups.
- Provide leadership in the identification and implementation of product and process quality improvement opportunities and resultant productivity gains in the shifts
- Provide risk assessment analysis and manage issues with non-conforming product to ensure proper control, minimize losses, and provide analysis to eliminate future occurrences
- Execution of action plans with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain team to ensure product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements during shift & day to day operations
- Using quality engineering principles, collect, analyze and interpret in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvement.
- Provide training in the areas of food safety, food science, applied statistics, regulatory requirements, sanitation, and quality measurement systems to shop floor team