Head of Quality Assurance

Job Description:

Matrix leadership and management of the Quality domain across all relevant sectors (factories, suppliers, warehouses, OS).

Key Responsibilities:

1. Daily management of the entire quality system in Israel – routines, control processes, and responding to field needs.
2. Risk management and handling quality events in collaboration with relevant stakeholders (quality, supply chain, operations, legal, etc.).
3. Responsibility for implementing and embedding the quality strategy by translating it into an operational plan across multiple production sites.
4. Building partnerships with the operations HQ to promote the professional quality agenda (ongoing resources + CAPEX, HR processes, training, and professional development of quality personnel, etc.).

Job Requirements

• 5 years of experience managing a quality system – preferably in the food industry/ pharmaceutical/ or microbiology.
• 10 years of experience in quality roles within large and complex industrial/manufacturing companies.
• Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology, Quality, Chemistry, or Microbiology – required.
• English – strong proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking – required.
• Ability to influence and lead without formal authority by creating a sense of partnership and commitment to actions and goals – fostering synergy within the team and across the organization.
• Strong listening skills, flexibility, openness to different opinions, and ability to reach and implement shared agreements.
• High level of independence in work and management.
• Proven ability to execute a wide-scale work plan with ongoing monitoring, control, and demonstrated continuous improvement.