The Supply Quality Specialist ensures compliance with quality and food safety standards, assesses suppliers, drives continuous improvement, and manages quality documentation.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Supply Quality Assurance Specialist works closely with suppliers, internal teams, and external auditors to maintain compliance, resolve quality issues, and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain. This role is responsible for assessing, qualifying, and monitoring ingredient and packaging suppliers, warehouses, and services. This role is an active member of the commercialization team, supporting new product and process start-up activities. The Supply Quality Assurance Specialist drives resolution of supplier non-conformances and maintains quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance documentation.
Preferred Qualifications- Recommend approval or rejection of potential new ingredient and packaging suppliers, warehouses, and services based on thorough assessments of quality and food safety compliance against Ghirardelli standards.
- Investigate and resolve supplier-related nonconformances and implement corrective/preventive actions
- Maintain strong professional relationships across suppliers, service, and internal teams to enable responsive partnerships
- Participate as a member of commercialization business teams and take the lead on initiatives involving Ghirardelli quality policies, procedures, and requirements
- Maintain, refine and improve processes to meet customer requirements
- Maintain Kosher program requirements for ingredients and finished products
- Manage Supply Quality databases to ensure ingredient and packaging information is accurate and up-to-date
- Ensure ingredients, packaging, and services are procured according to Ghirardelli standards and address any discrepancies with internal/external parties
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Prepare reporting to provide insight into quality and food safety metrics
- Stay informed about industry regulations and ensure supply quality processes align with relevant standards, certifications, and legal requirements
- Support regulatory and 3rd party food safety audits
- Drive continuous improvement through data analysis and accountability in a self-directed manner
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Expected travel to be less than 50%
82,000 to 107,000
Top Skills
Food Safety Standards
Kosher Program Compliance
Regulatory Compliance
Supply Quality Databases
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
400 N Michigan Ave, Suite 100, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
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