Director, Manufacturing (Operations) Quality & Food Safety (Yogurt/Shakes/Kids)

Director, Manufacturing (Operations) Quality & Food Safety (Yogurt/Shakes/Kids) Job Locations US-CO-Louisville | US-TX-Fort Worth | US-OH-Minster ID 2026-22576 Number of People to Hire 4 Job Family Quality Level of Experience Experienced Professionals Short Intro and About the Job This role is responsible for category Quality & Food Safety performance in manufacturing in Danone owned factories. The main purpose of the Category QFS Manufacturing role is to ensure operational QFS excellence. Job Responsibilities To be a main point of contact with the factory QFS organization ensuring sufficient time and leadership to develop QFS capability within factory teams To establish a 2 way stream of feedback to and from US factories, category teams and global QFS to ensure a strengthening of standards and increased performance. To be accountable for the implementation of the Danone QFS product and operational QFS standards across all the factories (Danone owned or Co-Manufacturers) within the designated category. To ensure the Quality Management System within the factories meets the needs of the product and consumer. To drive within each factory a QFS culture of transparency, continuous improvement and zero-defect minded executional excellence. To monitor end-to-end QFS performance and consumer satisfaction metrics, reporting, data and insights analytics and make strategies for addressing gaps and performance issues as well as recognizing good performance To co-design with factories and supply chain change projects (CapEx and OpEx) to drive food safety compliance and consumer satisfaction. To be an IWS expert and lead delivery of the Quality Pillar To develop the capabilities within the category QFS team and in the factories to deliver & execute the digital and IWS a