QA Systems & Continuous Improvement Expert

About the role:

As a Quality Assurance systems & Continuous Improvements expert in the chocolate industry, you will be responsible for ensuring that all products meet Quality and Food Safety standards and, more specifically, Barry Callebaut Customers’ requirements. You will be a key figure to ensure the awareness of Regulatory within the QA department. You will also be the sensory expert of the Barry Callebaut Manufacturing Iberica (BCMI) plant, an internal auditor, responsible to identify and execute Continuous Improvements projects. 

Key Responsibilities:

● Customers’ requirements: Answering questionnaires and technical requests of Iberian Customers, excluding Global Accounts, for chocolate products and coordinating CoC/CoA profiles, specific requests (sample, analysis, SAE documentation…).

● Regulatory: Ensuring awareness of European and local regulations within the QA department. Managing Sanitary registers, export / import documentation.

● Quality Documentation System (QDS): Administering, keeping up to date and improving the local QDS database. Supporting BCMI employees with Quality Documentation issues.

● Sensory: Coordinating sensory activities in compliance with Barry Callebaut standard, training the analysts’ panel, supporting BCMI stakeholders in case of deviations, non conformities.

● Labelling: Translating to Catalan and Spanish legal texts, reviewing pre-printed labels.

● Audits: Preparing internal audit plans, creating checklists, performing internal audits and completing the corresponding reports (GMP, RSPO, Rainforest Alliance, FSSC 22000).

About you:

Qualifications and skills:

● Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry or a related field.

● Previous experience in Quality Assurance, preferably in the food or chocolate industry.

● Strong knowledge of Quality and Food safety regulations (e.g. FSSC 22000, HACCP).

● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

● Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.

● Proactive attitude to improve efficiency.

● Effective communication and teamwork skills.

● Fluent Spanish and Catalan, both written and spoken.

● Advanced English, both written and spoken.

Additional skills:

● Experience with RSPO, Rainforest Alliance, SAE certifications.

● Knowledge of chocolate production processes.

● Proficiency in data analysis tools and software.

We kindly request that all application documents, including your CV, be submitted in English.