Job Description:
Exciting opportunity to join the site R&D team in [ADD SITE] as the Quality & Food Safety Manager. The Purpose of the role is to ensure Mars QMP quality management system and food safety risk assessment & control in [region], full compliance with ISO9001/ global standard/ China local regulatory.
What are we looking for?
1. Food science, Engineering, Chemistry or equivalent BSc/ MSc degree is preferred.
2.Experience of quality assurance from a sizable organization
Knowledge of quality management system – ISO 9001 and quality program GMP/ Hygienic design.
3. Familiar with legal food safety requirement, food process technology.
4. Problem solving skill and systematic thinking
What will be your key responsibilities?
1. Maintain and enhance Mars QMS – lead region for global standards T4 feedback and T5 gap assessment, follow up system deviation with CAPA and identify system opportunity.
2. Work closely with SQA/ RMCT/ PD team for quality & food safety risk assessment to ensure full compliance with China Food Regulatory and Mars standard.
3. Coordinate for annual verification activities
4. Promote quality culture and enhance quality awareness, coordinating Quality Week activity, leadership accountability to quality, quality KPI period review, quality council quality review and quality management review etc.
5. Lead quality capability training program and build up quality expert pool and quality capability for all associate.
What can you expect from Mars?
1. Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
2. Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
3. A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
4. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Food Science, Engineering, Chemistry, or an equivalent field
- Quality assurance experience in a sizable organization
- Knowledge of quality management systems, including ISO 9001
- Knowledge of GMP and hygienic design quality programs
- Familiarity with legal food safety requirements
- Familiarity with food process technology
- Problem-solving skills
- Systematic thinking
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
