Senior Executive FSQ-XQM

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make foodthe world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

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General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

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JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

In partnership with our cross-functional partners, ITQ innovates and develops products that meet the ever-changing needs of our consumers and enables long-term business growth. We identify and develop technologies that shape and protect our businesses today and into the future. ITQ operates across three organizations: Global Applications, Capabilities COEs, and Shared Services & Operations

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Purpose of the role

This role is responsible for executing regional and market strategies in GEMS (Global Emerging Markets) for external quality management including auditing ingredient and packaging suppliers to ensure the food safety, regulatory compliance, and quality of General Mills ingredients & packaging materials.

The Senior Executive FSQ- XQM champions ingredient supplier food safety, manages ingredient categories, builds alignment and strategy with cross-functional partners, provides technical expertise, leads risk assessments and root cause analysis activities, and works with both internal and external partners to ensure the safety of General Mills products and processes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide FSQ leadership and direction through technical mastery in the areas of food safety risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, SPC, system capability, and sanitation and champion material supplier food safety and regulatory compliance.
• Manage specific material categories by identifying and reducing supplier food safety and regulatory risk, providing technical category expertise, ensuring specification compliance, and assessing supplier performance provide food safety, quality, and regulatory training with our suppliers and external GMI partners.
• Conduct ingredient & packaging vendor & Warehouse audits (virtual and 40% travel) to ensure vendor compliance with the General Mills Supplier Manuals and be responsible for follow-up to drive risk reduction for GMI.
• Lead risk assessment and root cause analysis activities for issue resolution building alignment and strategy with cross functional partners and utilizing Continuous Improvement tools.
• Approve and ensure accurate ingredient or Packaging specifications and resolve specification conflicts.
• Partner with Sourcing to effectively manage suppliers and strategy for specific material categories.
• Provide leadership for global XQM and regional XQM initiatives including but not limited to process improvements, process standardization, and team development.
• Drive global processes and implement global tools/practices across GEMS markets.
• Provide support for Global XQM and regional needs.
• Develop and propagate raw material category expertise within GEMS region and globally Represent region as category expertise on global XQM teams.