Quality Manager, NWEA - British American Tobacco

BAT is evolving at pace - truly like no other organization.

“To achieve the ambition we have set for ourselves, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to live our ethos every day. Come be a part of this journey!”

Here is your opportunity to join a global company with a strong and steady future ahead, great resources, development possibilities, and a solid market base. With its geographic diversity, strong brands, talented people, and proved strategy, British American Tobacco is well placed to achieve further success.

Badenoch + Clark are excited to be working with British American Tobacco Sweden in the search for a Quality Manager! If you enjoy working with talented colleagues while inspiring and engaging others in a fast-paced and forward-thinking environment, this might be just the role for you.

 

The role

As Quality Manager for the Northwestern Europe Area, your overall responsibilities include ensuring the company and its employees follow national and international regulations and guidelines, and building relationships with regulatory authorities. You will be responsible for implementing and following global and local strategies, policies, platforms, and Best Practices across the supply chain and related areas of product. Reporting directly to the Global Matrix, this is a high visibility role.

The role is based in Malmö (Fosie), Sweden, where you will head three local teams, each with a manager reporting to you.

Key deliverables:
• Plan, coordinate, and promote all quality activities, with a focus in meeting consumer and legal requirements
• Responsible for supplier management with regards to generation, maintenance and adherence to specifications, and ensure continuous improvement and process control principles
• Provide timely, accurate, and relevant product and process quality information in support of decision making relating to legal requirements and product design throughout the supply chain
• Supply quality training and education to company personnel to embed the ownership of quality across the supply chain and implement continuous improvement and process control principles to support quality, waste and efficiency KPI improvements
• Provide a well-functioning consumer enquiry service to our customers and consumers
• Provide measurement and calibration services to meet regulatory compliance and internal analytical requirements
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain a Quality Maintenance System compliant with all applicable regulations, consumer satisfaction, and mandatory elements of the British American Tobacco Corporate Quality Management System; embedding the principles of consumer focus and continual improvement
• Audit, review, and improve the application and effectiveness of the Quality System (including quality procedures, process information, specification management, and consumer/customer response systems)
• Support the company strategy, set objectives and targets to direct reports, manage their performance to ensure target plans are met and all functional tasks and projects delivered
• Ensure allocation of resources meeting the department budget
• You are also in charge of ensuring the laboratory´s chemical, physical, microbiological, and environmental analysis are performed in-house or at an external, certified laboratory, thereafter providing statistical data of analyzed results to departments involved

 

What is needed to succeed?
• Master´s Degree in Engineering or similar
• Significant and relevant experience with product development and/or manufacturing
• Solid knowledge of legislation relevant to FMCG or food production industry
• Leadership skills with the capacity to influence within and across departments and levels of the organization
• Awareness of market research techniques relating to consumer product quality requirements
• Understanding own product performance in relation to consumer product quality requirements, competitor activities, and market developments
• Applied knowledge of Quality Management Systems and corporate quality tools and measures
• Practical competence in analysis, problem solving, and continual improvement methods and techniques (including SPC, brainstorming, and fishbone diagrams)
• Basic knowledge in Electrical Engineering is advantageous
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 and/or Lean Six Sigma is preferred
• Proficiency in Swedish language is highly meritorious

As a person, you are driven, thorough, and solution focused. You have superior organizational skills, integrity, and you work with a long-term perspective with quality as your guiding star. As NWEA Quality Manager, you have a lot of internal as well as external stakeholders and it is important that you enjoy interactions with others, as is being socially adept and a good communicator.

 

What we offer

We offer you a fun and varied position, a competitive salary package, and the chance to join British American Tobacco Sweden in an intensive phase, with room to be engaged and develop in a future-oriented, modern company. The company is characterized by its positive atmosphere and motivated staff, as well as its direct decision paths and pride in their products and what they do.

 

Application

This process is in collaboration with Badenoch + Clark. For any questions regarding the position, please reach out to Senior Consultant Matilda Rodey at matilda.rodey@badenochandclark.se. We use digital screening interviews, personality tests, and background checks in our recruitment process, and will notify you prior to engaging in these.

We look forward to receiving your application no later than September 30, at www.badenochandclark.se. Please note that we do not accept applications via email.

Selection will be ongoing – so contact us today!