Job Description Summary:
Function: Corporate Quality, Safety & Environment (QSE)
Geography: Regional OU offices (Atlanta-AOC or Mexico)
Reports To: Vice President, Governance & QSE Competencies
Role Purpose
The Senior Manager, QSE KORE Optimization and Systems Governance is accountable for the end‑to‑end KORE optimization, governance, maintenance, change management, and integrity of KORE requirements documentation and mapping within the QSE Quality Management System (QMS). This role ensures that corporate QSE requirements, specifications, and standard methods are current, clear, risk‑based, and fit‑for‑purpose, while remaining aligned to business needs and regulatory expectations. The role serves as the corporate authority for requirements coherence, ensuring that Operating Unit (OU) requirements and Bottler requirements align to corporate KORE expectations, with clear guardrails, controlled deviations, and consistent application across the system. The role enables “freedom within a framework” while protecting enterprise risk, brand integrity, and license‑to‑operate.
Scope & Impact
Global ownership of corporate QSE requirements within KORE
Governance authority over OU requirements alignment to corporate standards
Direct impact on Bottler, Co‑packer, and Contract Manufacturer compliance expectations
Key contributor to governance effectiveness, audit outcomes, continuous improvement and system simplification
Key Responsibilities
1. Corporate KORE Requirements Lifecycle Management
Own the revision, maintenance, and optimization of corporate KORE requirements, specifications, and standard methods across Quality, Food Safety, Environment, and Safety domains. Owns Document Change Request system & process.
Ensure requirements remain fit‑for‑purpose, risk‑based, and aligned to evolving business models, innovation, and regulatory landscapes.
Lead structured periodic reviews to eliminate duplication, retire obsolete requirements, and simplify requirement language and structure.
Execute KORE optimization and document mapping to strengthen requirements coherence, traceability, and usability across the QSE QMS.
2. Governance of Operating Unit (OU) Requirements
Serve as the corporate governance point for OU requirements, ensuring alignment to KORE while enabling local applicability.
Define and enforce guardrails for OU‑specific requirements, including:
What OUs may add vs. what must remain corporate‑controlled
Structure, taxonomy, and traceability back to KORE
Lead the Document Change Request process for OU Requirement Review of material changes, ensuring transparency, consistency, and risk‑based decision‑making.
3. Bottler & Contract Manufacturer Requirements Alignment
Ensure Bottler, Co‑packer, and Contract Manufacturer requirements remain fully aligned to corporate KORE expectations and are not used to bypass corporate standards.
Partner with Legal, Supply Chain, and OU teams to ensure KORE requirements are correctly translated into contractual, authorization, and governance mechanisms.
Maintain clarity on non‑negotiable corporate requirements versus OU execution models.
4. Publication, Change Control & Traceability
Own the end‑to‑end publication process for KORE requirements, including approvals, version control, effective dates, and structured change communication.
Ensure governance content hygiene, versioning discipline, and lifecycle management (creation, review cadence, approval, retirement/archiving) across KORE requirements and related governance artifacts.
Lead KORE change management for governance content updates, including stakeholder engagement, release planning, communications, and adoption support.
Ensure clear traceability between:
Corporate KORE requirements
OU requirements
Bottler and supplier obligations
Support audit readiness by ensuring requirements are accurate, current, and consistently referenced across governance documents.
5. Stakeholder Engagement & Governance Enablement
Act as the primary corporate contact for KORE requirements interpretation and governance.
Partner with Governance, Technical Risk, Audit, Digital, and OU leaders to resolve requirement gaps, ambiguities, or overlaps.
Support capability building through guidance, FAQs, and structured interpretation materials.
Digital Skills Required (New‑State Expectations)
This role is not a digital product owner, but it does require strong digital fluency aligned to modern enterprise QMS operations:
Required Digital Capabilities
Proficient use of enterprise QMS and requirements management platforms (e.g., structured content libraries, metadata, taxonomy).
Ability to manage version control, traceability, and structured publishing workflows.
Comfort working with data‑enabled insights (usage, adoption, audit trends) to inform requirement optimization.
Ability to translate governance and risk intent into digitally consumable, user‑centric content.
Own platform analytics, IMCR data integrity, and continuous improvement by monitoring data quality, usage/adoption insights, and governance KPIs to drive targeted optimization actions.
Not Required
Software development, AI model ownership, Product backlog management
Expected Mindset
Digital‑first thinking applied to governance, Strong appreciation for usability, searchability, and system scalability
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering, Food Science, Environmental Science, Safety, or related discipline.
8+ years of experience in QSE governance, quality systems, standards management, or enterprise management systems.
Demonstrated experience working across corporate, regional/OU, and Bottler environments.
Strong understanding of ISO‑based management systems and regulatory frameworks.
Bold and courageous communication style and competency
Success Measures
KORE requirements are current, coherent, and clearly differentiated from OU and Bottler execution requirements
Reduced duplication and inconsistency across corporate and OU requirements
Clear traceability and governance of requirement changes
Improved audit clarity and reduced findings linked to requirement ambiguity
Strong stakeholder confidence in KORE as the single source of truth
Skills:
Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Environmental Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Science, Food Safety and Sanitation, Green Solutions, ISO 9001, Lean Manufacturing, Measurement Verification (Inactive), Packaging Engineering, Program Measurement (Inactive), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Six Sigma, Sustainability, Waterfall ModelPay Range:
United States of America: $137,550 - $160,650Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Location(s):
United States of AmericaCity/Cities:
AtlantaTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
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