Title:  Quality and Food Safety Manager

Do you enjoy ensuring food safety and regulatory compliance across manufacturing operations? Join our team as Food Safety & Quality Manager

In this role, you’ll be responsible for maintaining food safety systems and ensuring product design and branding compliance for Kellogg products at our Linares plant. You’ll implement global and regional programs and policies, ensuring alignment with local and destination market regulations for materials, ingredients, inserts, manufacturing, and storage practices. You’ll stay up to date with applicable regulatory changes and ensure full adherence to Kelllanova product design standards. This position is based in Linares, Nuevo Leon.

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

• Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance: Leads adherence to food safety and regulatory standards in manufacturing processes at the Linares plant.
• Product Designand Quality Assurance: Ensures compliance with product design and branding controls, and manages quality programs including product evaluations and consumer complaints.
• Capability Building and Team Leadership: Develops technical and leadership skills within the team and across connected Centers of Excellence in quality and food safety.
• Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement: Promotes continuous improvement using statistical control and Six Sigma tools, while driving efficiency initiatives and managing the Q&FS budget.
• Strategic Collaborationand Program Execution: Coordinates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, supports KWS implementation, and ensures execution of traceability, HACCP, and MSS programs.

We’re Looking for Someone With

• Professional: Food science bachelor´s degree
• Operations: Requires operations experience, Quality programmers (Minimum 2 years’ experience), HACCP (Minimum 2 years’ experience)
• Travel: 30%
• Languages: English expert.
• Functional Skills: Requires excellent leadership skills, motivational and human relations. Must be an excellent communicator, both written and oral. Must possess or attain a thorough knowledge of financial principles. Ambiguity and crisis management.

What’s Next

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.

If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for more specific information.

Get to Know Us

At Kellanova, we are driven by our vision to be the world’s best-performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of our differentiated brands and our passionate people. Our portfolio of iconic, world-class brands include Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, MorningStar Farms, Special K, Krave, Zucaritas, Tresor, Crunchy Nut, among others.

Kellanova’s Culture of Best means we bring our best to all that we do in pursuit of our vision to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse. Our culture celebrates boldness and empowers our people to challenge the status quo, achieve results, and win together.

Our focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) enables us to build a culture of belonging where all employees have a place at the table and are inspired to share their passion, talents and ideas to work.

Mars has agreed to acquire Kellanova in a combination that will shape the future of snacking! The transaction is anticipated to close within the first half of 2025 (subject to Kellanova shareowner approval and other customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals). The companies remain separate until closing.

You can learn more at www.futureofsnacking.com, and our hiring teams will be happy to discuss further questions if your application advances in the hiring process.

What does it take to be the best? Someone like you.

Kellanova is an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to provide an inclusive work environment, a seat for everyone at the table, and embraces the diverse talent of its people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, please visit our website here.