Specialist, Quality Assurance(Nutrition & Compliance)
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Job Description
Job Summary
As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you'll be a key part of the collaborative team at Giant Eagle. You'll bring your skills and expertise to ensure that our private label branded products and ingredients are labeled and marketed according to applicable federal regulations. You'll manage production, and make sure goods are produced at facilities that meet all Giant Eagle and federal regulatory requirements. In addition, you'll establish that Giant Eagle branded products meet or exceed the private label specifications for applicable product attributes.
Job Description
Key Competencies:
- Experience Required: 6 months to 1 year as either a nutrition specialist or product compliance & nutrition analyst
- Experience Desired: 1-3 years of food industry experience in one or more of the following areas: Quality Assurance, Regulatory, or Nutrition
- Education Desired: Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition Science, Food Science, Biology, or Chemistry
- Experience Desired: Previous experience using Oracle Retail Brand Compliance software (ORBC) and or Genesis R&D software,
- Experience Desired: The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%
Job Responsibilities
- Verify regulatory compliance for all private label items and materials, including product labels, marketing materials, signage and specifications.
- Evaluate new suppliers through our Supplier Approval Program.
- Manage all product-related quality activities for assigned categories, including specification approvals, label reviews and approvals, product monitoring, and brand standard compliance verification.
- Coordinate sensory testing to validate new products against brand standards and specification.
- Evaluate existing suppliers through the Supplier approval program to determine compliance and performance.
- Coordinate routine product monitoring of existing products to validate products against brand standards.
- Route documentation to applicable business units for proper review and signatures.
- Provide feedback to customer care team for customer inquiries.
- Store all applicable vendor and product documentation in vendor documentation systems.
- Attend Category and Own Brand product meetings.
- Investigate assigned customer complaints and claims, coordinating as needed with the supplier.