Business area: Nestlé Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Coffee Category.

Location: Esplugues del Llobregat (Barcelona)

Job Summary

Nestlé Spain & Portugal is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world's largest food and beverage company. Nestlé's purpose is to enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future. We aim to help build a better and healthier world, and inspire people to lead healthier lives. This is how we contribute to society while ensuring the long-term success of our company.

Manufacturing at Nestlé focuses on ensuring that the consumer receives a perfectly quality product, at the right time and place, while eliminating waste to maximize efficiency and productivity. This is especially critical in our journey to becoming a LEAN enterprise. This is the biggest change in our way of working that Nestlé has experienced. It is global. It is exciting.

And we are looking for a Packaging Safety and Compliance Manager for Iberian Region and Coffee Category support Zone Europe and Specification Process Management to join our fantastic team.

Main purpose of S&C job is to ensure that all packaging materials for Nestlé products (in Spain and Portugal and Coffee factories) are safe and compliant with legal and Nestlé standards and guidelines. Same applies to promotional items.

Management of quality related issues regarding safety & compliance of packaging materials and promotional items: Validating conformity declarations with regard to food contacting materials; assisting in interpretation of analyzed results; maintenance of Factories surveillance plans; and furthermore assistance in issues of consistence.

Ensuring compliance with Nestlé policies, guidelines and national and European laws and regulations for food packaging and promotional items. Cooperation with NQAC, PTC / R&D & Packaging Specialist.

As a Packaging Safety and Compliance, you will be at the forefront of ensuring the safety and compliance of packaging placed on the market in the Iberian Market:

• Ensure compliance with Nestlé Standards, national and European laws and regulations for food contact packaging.
• Implement and manage packaging monitoring plans with each factory and Co-packing/3rd Party in the market, interpretation of results and the principle contact on issues when raised.
• Check and manage Declarations of Compliance (DoC) from suppliers for Nestle Spain and Portugal and 3rd Party / new business acquisitions, ensuring compliance with both Nestlé and legal requirements.
• Provide expertise and support to the Coffee Category at ZEUR level to deliver Packaging Safety & Compliance by design. Managing the DoC for 14 coffee factories incl 5 Comans, surveillance plan optimization for all European coffee factories, S&C involvement in all coffee EUR projects to ensure S&C by design.
• Coordinate required local packaging supplier audits for new developments and ongoing requirements to Nestlé Standards.
• Ensure development of competencies of packaging safety and compliance. Disseminate best practices and knowledge to the Nestlé Iberia & Coffee Category Packaging community, aligned with the Global Zone strategy.
• Build, implement, follow cross-category & cross-market packaging safety & compliance monitoring plan for one designated strategic supplier (currently Amcor).
• Together with Quality Area in Corporate analyze the Non Food Items to be integrated in the finished goods at Market level.
• Participate with the Quality Department at corporate level in the Supplier Audits.
Support the Market in Specification and Packaging Master Data. Keep a valid, accurate and relevant PMPS & Packaging Recipes portfolio with a stablished discontinuation process in place including "Using Market" status maintenance ("Using" and "No Longer Using" statuses).

What will make you successful?

We're looking for someone with previous experience within a packaging environment to manage execution of packaging related initiatives across Nestle Iberia and Coffee Category, in line with corporate legal packaging policies in terms of safety compliance.

You will likely come from a scientific engineering or equivalent manufacturing background also have demonstrable experience continuous improvement techniques tools. Your exceptional communication skills will be put use as you engage both internal external clients ensuring high safety standards delight our consumers without any risks. Importantly you'll be keen progress develop within forward-looking manufacturing site.

Fluent Spanish/Portugues and English are mandatory

If you are ready make real impact part team that dedicated excellence then this opportunity you've been waiting Join driving force shaping future packaging safety compliance.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 22 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity.