Team Lead Quality (m/f/d) at the Eisleben plant (Eisleben)

Team Lead Quality (m/f/d) at the Eisleben plant

Company Overview

Döhler is a global manufacturer of natural ingredients and comprehensive solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle, and nutrition industries. Using innovative technology, we produce plant-based raw materials for products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy products, and confectionery for many well-known brands. Nearly 10,000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share a common goal: to ensure that millions of people worldwide enjoy the products we manufacture.

Your role

• You will be responsible for ensuring and further developing quality standards, processes, and certifications.
• You will provide technical and disciplinary leadership to the Quality Team (QM & QC) and enjoy motivating and developing your team.
• You will also lead the Food Safety (HACCP) and Food Defense teams.
• You will actively promote a food safety culture and evaluate our progress in this area.
• You will be responsible for preparing, conducting, and following up on customer and certification audits, as well as regulatory inspections.
• As part of root cause analysis and effectiveness testing, you will work with the team to develop measures for error prevention and process improvement.
• You will identify quality and food safety risks while adhering to internal and legal guidelines.
• You will support your team with your expertise and experience in handling customer inquiries and complaints.
• You are skilled in evaluating quality-related key performance indicators (KPIs) and can derive potential for improvement from them.
• Creating and delivering training courses is also part of your responsibilities.

Your profile

• You have successfully completed a degree in nutritional science, process engineering, food technology, food chemistry, or a related field.
• You have relevant professional experience, ideally with personnel responsibility.
• You also have sound knowledge of certification standards, HACCP, and quality management, ideally including sustainability.
• You have already gained experience in internal and external auditing.
• You possess strong analytical skills, self-organization, and a structured approach.
• Confident and diplomatic communication is second nature to you.
• Ownership, personal responsibility, and enthusiasm for working in quality management are part of your personality.
• Proficiency in MS Office and SAP is part of your daily work.
• Your working languages are German and English.

Döhler as an employer offers

• Working with passion: We foster an environment in which our employees act with heart and mind, look back on their work with pride and inspire others with their commitment.
• Targeted leadership at all levels: We don't define leadership roles by job titles. It's about taking responsibility, actively shaping change, and giving meaning and purpose to the work.
• Individual development opportunities: We offer the perfect environment to expand skills, discover new strengths and actively take charge of your professional development.
• Global collaboration: Here, different cultures, languages and perspectives come together to generate new ideas and inspiration and to broaden their personal and professional horizons.
• Shared strength: We build deep relationships and grow together, sharing our knowledge and using our strengths in a targeted way.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We welcome applicants who are as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or other characteristics protected by applicable laws, rules and regulations.

How to Apply

Become part of our team and apply online via our career portal, addressed to Henrike Kramer. Please note that we cannot consider or return application documents sent by post.