Senior Product Safety and Quality Assurance Manager

3 weeks ago


Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia Coles Full time

About the Role

As a key member of the Commercial team at Coles, you will lead a team to support Coles Own Brand product safety and quality performance. Your expertise in quality assurance and product technology will be instrumental in reviewing and identifying trending customer contacts and returns, highlighting critical risk indicators for product safety and ensuring Coles upholds the highest quality and standards.

You will be responsible for:

  • Continued development of trend reporting and analytics to give clear direction to Business Unit technical teams on product safety and quality
  • Supporting the Customer Care team
  • Highlighting contacts of high risk for customer safety and reputation risk, or adverse trends
  • Responding to regulators' requests for information regarding Own Brand products and ensuring investigation of any issues
  • Supporting the Coles Claims & Product Liability team to successfully resolve claims
  • Coordination of a targeted product surveillance program demonstrating Own Brand safety, quality, and compliance
  • Product testing of new instore concepts to confirm safety and quality before launch
  • Coordination and facilitation of team member development

About You and Your Skills

We are looking for a candidate with a tertiary degree in Food Science and Technology, minimum of three years' experience in quality assurance & product technology, and previous experience within a manufacturing environment. You should also have experience investigating and resolving customer complaints, strong written and verbal communication skills, confident stakeholder management, advanced Excel knowledge and analytical skills, experience in CRM platform such as Salesforce, and experience in advanced BI Tools.

What We Offer

We offer a dynamic and inclusive work environment, flexible work arrangements, additional leave, and parental leave entitlements. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities. We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability.



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