Farm Frites is looking for: Customer Quality and Technical Manager YUM

If you’re the potential new Customer Quality and Technical Manager KFC at Farm Frites, with experience in a similar position, and if you would like to work for a rapidly growing, international family company in the agri-food sector, then read on!

We are looking for a:

Customer Quality and Technical Manager KFC (Yum! Brands)

40 hours per week, at the Oudenhoorn/Hellevoetsluis location

 

Farm Frites is continuously working to expand its global position in the food service market. To help realize our growth ambitions, we are looking for an experienced and driven Customer Quality and Technical Manager KFC / Yum! Brands.

Your role

As the Customer Quality and Technical Manager, you will be responsible for all technical and quality related matters within the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell globally. You will be involved in:

  • Overseeing audits and factory tours with customers.
  • Handling customer and/or quality-related inquiries from customers and prospects.
  • Timely and accurately completing all required customer templates and forms.
  • Attending various taste panels, which may take place in Oudenhoorn, Lommel, and Sint-Truiden, during morning taste panels when relevant production runs are assessed.
  • Working remotely with our Egyptian and new factories
  • Overseeing line trials in the factories.
  • Communicating with the factory's QA department and shift leaders, and making corrections as needed.
  • Physically attending customer tastings at different locations both in the Netherlands and abroad.
  • Training customer teams.
  • Being involved in the development of new products (NPDs) and Limited Time Offers (LTOs) in consultation with product management.
  • Involvement in the introduction of new potato varieties.
  • Proactively communicating with customers/prospects’ QA and R&D teams, proposing solutions or following up on complaints as a fully-fledged conversation partner.

 

Your team

You will be part of our KFC (Yum! Brands) team and report directly to the Yum! Business Unit Director and to the QA and R&D departments at Farm Frites.

Educatie and skills: 

  • HBO working and thinking level, preferably with a degree in food technology.
  • At least 3-5 years of relevant work experience in Quality.
  • Preferable knowledge of KFC / Yum! customers & systems (e.g. TrueView)
  • Knowledge of food safety and quality standards such as HACCP, GMP, GFSI, ISO, Halal, Kosher.
  • Experience in translating quality requirements and risks into instructions and procedures.
  • Positive, proactive, and results-driven attitude.
  • Persuasiveness and strong communication skills.
  • Passion for fries, technology, and production processes, with an eye for detail.
  • Excellent command of the English language (this will be your main working language).
  • Willingness to travel regularly to the Lommel or Sint-Truiden site (at least one day per week).

 

Are you a Farm Friter?

At Farm Frites you’ll be working in a warm family company with agricultural roots. Are you, like your new colleagues, a true Farm Friter? Check it!

  • you like short reporting lines, adapting fast and achieving results
  • you’re a fan of no-nonsense thinking and you make level-headed decisions
  • you feel at home in a close-knit team and enjoy working with others
  • you devise creative solutions and like converting these into actions
  • you love your profession, nature and food

What we offer you

Because Farm Frites is growing rapidly, it is a challenging and dynamic company in which to work for. We offer our employees the opportunity to develop their individual talents and skills, so that they can achieve their personal and business goals. Sustainability is also a high priority for us, and we offer our employees a good salary with excellent fringe benefits and a great work-from-home policy. If you’d like to be part of this rapidly growing international enterprise, then seize this opportunity to apply!

How to apply

You can apply via the link on the website https://www.werkenbijfarmfrites.com/vacatures including a CV and cover letter with your application. For more information, feel free to send an e-mail to our Recruitment Team at Recruitment@Farmfrites.com

Acquisition on our vacancies is not appreciated.

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Our application procedure

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Welcome in our world...

Since 1971, we grow the tastiest potatoes. We are committed to nature, proud of our farmers' heritage. Farm Frites is pure, authentic, passionate; together with our growers we are working around the clock to make a difference. Straight from the fields, our potatoes are carefully taken care of and processed into fries. That farmland is our foundation. It is invaluable to Farm Frites!  And so are the more than 1,500 employees that work for Farm Frites, all over the world. That's why we do everything we do in the most sustainable way and respect people and planet. Where quality comes first ... and taste! You can see it and you can taste it.
Worldwide, more and more people enjoy fries. Not only in the Western world, but also increasingly in Asia and Latin America. We have contributed to this growth. And we continue to do so.  It's very simple: We want to make the tastiest fries.

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