Vice President, Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Why Join as VP of Food Safety & Quality Assurance?

This is not your typical FSQA leadership role. At Clemens Food Group, the Vice President of Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) is central to our mission: to ensure safety and quality while enabling scale and growth. You’ll step into a function that’s evolving—elevated in responsibility, visibility, and influence—and you’ll help shape it from day one.

This is also a succession-ready opportunity: the current SVP is preparing for a long-term transition and is seeking a dynamic, inspiring leader who can step into that future.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Align and elevate food safety and quality across all production facilities.
• Establish KPIs, performance rhythms, and strategic direction for FSQA across Clemens.
• Partner with Operations and Sales to bridge priorities and ensure proactive compliance and customer trust.
• Develop and assess sanitation performance—including oversight of off-shift and third-shift teams.
• Lead with influence—up, down, and across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the top FSQA voice in cross-functional executive strategy.
• Lead a team of QA managers and partner with a sanitation director to execute initiatives.
• Represent CFG with USDA, major customers like Costco, and at key industry forums.
• Evaluate and implement improvements to quality systems and sanitation design.
• Coach, assess, and realign QA team performance as needed.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Direct access to succession: be developed as a future SVP.
• Cross-plant ownership: impacts multiple facilities and enterprise standards.
• Customer-facing visibility: regularly engage with key retail and foodservice partners.
• Support + Autonomy: high-level trust from leadership to drive change with speed.

Skills & Mindset

What You Bring

• Executive-level communication across diverse audiences
• Deep expertise in FSQA systems, sanitation, and regulatory compliance
• Experience leading multi-plant quality or food safety operations
• Proven success in building and holding accountable high-performing teams

How You Lead

• You act like an owner—proactive, accountable, and forward-looking
• You lead with influence, not just authority
• You’re structured and strategic, yet flexible in high-change environments
• You balance confidence with humility and curiosity

Your Future at CFG

You’re not just stepping into an executive seat—you’re preparing to take the helm. If you’re a high-performing director or VP ready to shape and own a vision, inspire a team, and prepare for next-level leadership, we’d love to connect.

Application Note:

Clemens Food Group is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.

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