Experience

BURGER KING® EMEA & APAC

• Spain
• Food and Beverage Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Quality Manager EMEA

  • Dec 2014 - Present

  - Develop and approve new suppliers and specifications according to the business purchasing strategy and in compliance current policies.- Support the business procurement and facility technical teams in the development of new products. - Ensure our Food safety standards in my category suppliers. - Keep abreast of all relevant legislation (European, National) and emerging issues relating to purchased materials and their respective supply chains.- Management and training of external vendors on our approval process, testing requirements and audits standards.- Implementation sustainability lead, ensuring our supplier understand and comply with our sustainability standards. - Control crisis management, offering support and advice to our internal departments, franchisees and suppliers.- Manage suppliers and specification approval process.- Manage customers complaint process and revision of their corrective actions.- Establish good relationship with local and National authorities. Support franchisees on questions or non conformances from official inspections.- Provide senior regulatory support across the business to ensure finished product compliance, guidance on claims, allergens & ingredient permissibility. -Ensure that Quality Improvement Programmes are in place with suppliers. Support our suppliers to implement new quality systems- Lead suppliers in trials to improve quality existing products and obtain factual data to change this products or their supply chain as necessary.- Ensure that all suppliers are risk-assessed, audited and taking appropriate action to rectify areas of supplier non-conformances.- Approval of raw material suppliers, ensuring compliance with our requirements



Etat de Fribourg - Staat Freiburg

• Switzerland
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Veterinary Officer/ Technical Manager at Micarna

  • Jan 2013 - Nov 2014

  - Control, audits, inspection and assessment of the quality systems, hazards and risks analysis systems in food processing plants inside the Canton of Fribourg at Micarna and Marmy SA. Assurance of regulatory compliance with Swiss Legislation within the food processing plants regarding food safety, labelling and traceability.- Regular meetings with the site and technical managers and with colleagues at the Canton regarding day to day technical issues, compliance with food GMP´s, hygienic regulations and amendments on the Legislation.- Tutoring and training of colleagues about our regulatory framework, quality control systems and hazard analysis within the Swiss food Legislation; in addition to tutoring of internal communication within my department.



Department of Agriculture and Rural development, Northern Ireland Government

• Education Administration Programs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Veterinary Officer/Technical Manager in food processing plants for DARD

  • Feb 2009 - Dec 2012

  - Audits and inspections of quality control, Public Health procedures policies, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems, food GMP and British Retail Consortium practices in several food processing plants ( Moy Park, ABP and Dunbia among others). Furthermore, internal auditor in eradication strategies procedures within the Department. - Manager and regulatory team leader in the Divisional Veterinary Office (8 technical field officers). Site and regulatory manager in 2 food processing plants (11 officers each under my supervision). In addition to deputy Divisional Veterinary Officer (supervising around 50 technical and administrative staff).- Project manager in crisis situations involving identification of animals or products, re-call and safe destruction of contaminated products. Development of new strategies for eradication and control of diseases with creation of SOPs within the Department. Advice and communication to veterinary colleagues and veterinary practitioners on these strategies and other regulatory matters such as EU Food safety and animal by-products, with regular meetings and organization of events.- Achievement of targeted Key Performance Indicators, SOP’s training and tutoring of new recruited personnel; as well as management and control of the Department’s yearly monetary budget within the food processing plants under my supervision.

• Veterinary Officer

  • Aug 2005 - Oct 2007

  - Manager and regulatory team leader in the Divisional Veterinary Office (8 technical field officers).- Project manager in interesting projects regarding control and eradication of different disease outbreaks and public health, with implementation of SOPs for these projects. Also part of a multidisciplinary team that creates new strategies for eradication and control of different diseases, with organization of events to present and advice on the eradication strategies. Furthermore, Veterinary leader advisor on public health, animal welfare, health and safety and EU food and animal by-products legislation to advise internal and external veterinary colleagues and farmers.- Additionally, control of exports certification from different meat products and live animals to non-EU countries ensuring compliance with EU legislation and non-EU countries requirements. Extent usage of in-house databases and participation in database improvement projects.- Good communication and regular meeting with the internal and external researchers, laboratory team, plant managers and farmers and food safety regulatory experts.