Role Purpose

Lead the Quality & Food Safety function for the export business, ensuring products manufactured across multiple plants meet international quality, food safety and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities
Own the overall Quality & Food Safety framework for the export business across multiple plants.- Standardise quality policies, processes and controls for export production.- Ensure compliance with country-specific food safety, quality, labelling and regulatory requirements.- Lead international customer, regulatory and food safety audits and ensure timely closure of observations.- Drive compliance with FDA, European and other international export regulations.- Ensure export quality standards are implemented within day-to-day manufacturing operations.- Monitor quality performance, deviations, CAPA and continuous improvement across plants.- Ensure country-specific product, packaging, labelling and food safety requirements are clearly implemented at plant level.- Identify quality risks across the export supply chain and establish appropriate controls.- Build capabilities of plant quality teams through training and knowledge sharing.- Develop MIS and dashboards to track quality performance, audits, deviations,



compliance and CAPA.- Continuously strengthen the export quality framework as the business expands into recent international markets.

Candidate Profile
15+ years of experience in Quality / Food Safety, preferably in a large manufacturing setup.- Robust experience in Food, Beverage, FMCG, Agri-processing or Processed Food manufacturing.- Robust international export exposure with knowledge of country-specific regulations.- Good understanding of FDA, European and other international food safety requirements.- Experience handling international audits and regulatory compliance.- Experience building and improving quality systems, beyond audit management.- Experience working across multiple plants / manufacturing locations.- Experience managing large Quality teams at a senior HOD / Corporate level.- Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Industries
Food & FMCG companies with significant export operations.- Beverage companies with manufacturing and export exposure.- B2B food businesses.- Seafood and meat processing / packaging companies.- Pharmaceutical companies with strong quality and process-safety systems.

📌 Head Of Quality Assurance Exports Fmcg/manufacuting/pharma Mumbai
🏢 MetaMorph
📍 Mumbai