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 new international markets.

Candidate Profile

- 15+ years of experience in Quality / Food Safety, preferably in a large manufacturing setup. - Strong experience in Food, Beverage, FMCG, Agri-processing or Processed Food manufacturing. - Strong international export exposure with knowledge of country-specific regulations. - Positive 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 (Noida)
🏢 MetaMorph
📍 Noida