Job Description:
Global Quality and Food Safety Specialist (H/F/X)
Location: Aimargues (near Montpellier)
Type of contract: Permanent (CDI)
Join Royal Canin as a Global Quality and Food Safety ! Drive excellence in distribution quality and traceability across our global network. In this role, you’ll lead compliance initiatives, standardize processes, and enhance end-to-end traceability capabilities—ensuring our products meet the highest standards from plant to pet.
What are we looking for?
- B.S. or M.S. in Food Science, Quality, or Supply Chain.
- 5-10 years of experience in Quality and Food Safety Management or Supply Chain, with strong knowledge of distribution quality and traceability standards.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 22000/FSSC, or BRC Storage & Distribution standards.
- Proficiency in IT systems such as WMS, Agnostic, and SAP.
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
- Proven ability to lead and influence across regions and functions.
- Strong understanding of business processes, systems, and change management.
- Excellent networking skills and ability to deliver projects through others remotely.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Act as the global Quality &Food Safety Specialist for standards and procedures related to Distribution Quality Management, Traceability, Hold & Release, and Product Disposal.
- Lead global compliance roadmaps for these standards across the distribution network and manufacturing sites where applicable.
- Ensure calibration and efficiency of gap assessments and define concession needs.
- Facilitate the RC QiD/QiM Community of Practice (COP), driving collaboration, knowledge sharing, training, and continuous improvement.
- Provide functional expertise in market traceability IT systems (e.g., Agnostic Corp system) and support global deployment.
- Offer technical guidance for risk assessments, development, evaluation, and validation of new requirements and capabilities.
- Serve as the key liaison with Petcare and corporate teams on distribution quality and traceability matters.
- Maintain regular communication with VCO and R&D/QFS leadership teams and manage escalations when necessary.
What can you expect from Mars?
- You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group.
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
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About Mars:
Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™.Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.
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