Description
Role Overview
The Quality Lead will be responsible for managing end-to-end quality assurance and food safety operations across fresh fruits & vegetables supply chain and Distribution Center (DC) operations. The role focuses on ensuring product quality, freshness standards, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence across procurement, storage, handling, processing, packaging, and dispatch activities. The position plays a critical role in maintaining quality consistency, minimizing customer complaints and operational losses, and driving continuous improvement across quality processes. This role requires strong expertise in fresh produce quality assessment, food safety standards, audit management, team handling, and cross-functional coordination in a rapid-paced operational environment.

Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end quality assurance processes across inbound procurement, grading, sorting, storage, processing, packaging, and dispatch operations
- Ensure adherence to food safety standards, hygiene protocols, SOPs,



and regulatory compliance requirements including FSSAI guidelines
- Conduct quality inspections for fruits & vegetables including sensory evaluation, grading checks, freshness assessment, and physical quality verification
- Monitor freshness standards, shelf-life parameters, storage conditions, and handling practices across all fresh produce categories
- Drive quality consistency and minimize customer complaints, QC rejections, wastage, shrinkage, and operational quality gaps
- Lead internal audits, quality reviews, hygiene inspections, and compliance assessments across operations
- Investigate quality issues and customer complaints through root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
- Maintain quality documentation including inspection reports, rejection logs, audit records, compliance trackers, and operational dashboards
- Supervise and train quality executives and operational teams on food s

📌 Lead - Quality (Bengaluru)
🏢 Essar Global Fund
📍 Bengaluru