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QUALITY & FOOD SAFETY SENIOR MANAGER Jobs in Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain at Fyffes
Title: QUALITY & FOOD SAFETY SENIOR MANAGER
Company: Fyffes
Location: Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Who we are:
We are Fyffes, one of the world's leading tropical produce companies. For more than 130 years, we have sourced, shipped and delivered high-quality fresh produce globally. With over 4,000 employees and a strong international network of growers and suppliers, we are committed to shaping wellbeing for the world through sustainable growth, innovation and strong partnerships.
Now we're looking for a Quality & Food Safety Senior Manager to join our Quality team, ensuring all fruit sourced, handled and delivered meets the highest quality, food safety and compliance standards.
Here's what you will do:
Lead quality and food safety performance across the sourced supply chain, ensuring fruit meets internal standards, customer expectations and relevant regulatory requirements. You will act as a key link between origin, operations, suppliers, growers and commercial teams, driving consistency and compliance from farm to shelf.
The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on operational control across supplier management, audits, claims, complaints, crisis response, traceability, laboratory testing and continuous improvement. You will also lead and develop the quality team.
Some key responsibilities:
- Define and implement quality and food safety strategy across sourcing regions, partners and suppliers.
- Oversee the end-to-end quality framework, quality controls, product specifications, HACCP systems and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure compliance with relevant food safety regulations and certification schemes such as GlobalG.A.P., GRASP, BRC, IFS, HACCP, Organic, Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance.
- Monitor growers, packhouses and service providers, conducting audits and farm visits and following up corrective actions.
- Coordinate quality control teams, inspection protocols and quality data reporting across origin and destination points.
- Own claims, rejections and complaint investigation processes, using root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
- Lead crisis responses, incident management, holds, withdrawals, recalls, mock recalls, traceability and laboratory testing programmes.
- Recruit, motivate and guide the professional development of the quality team.
What you need to bring:
- Degree in Food Science, Agriculture or a related field; HACCP and/or Lead Auditor certification preferred.
- 7-10+ years of experience in quality and food safety within fresh produce.
- Proven experience working with global supply chains, multiple origins, customer standards and relationships.
- Strong track record in supplier auditing, compliance management and continuous improvement.
- Experience handling quality incidents, claims, complaints, root cause analysis and crisis situations such as recalls.
- Fluent English and Spanish are required.
- Strong expertise in fresh produce quality, food safety standards, cold chain, post-harvest handling, data analysis and reporting.
What it is like to work at Fyffes:
We are ambitious but grounded, combining high performance with a people-first culture. Our leadership principles guide us every day: we play to win as one Fyffes, shape the future, cultivate a growth mindset, are transparent and inclusive, and are moved by doing good. We thrive on diversity and treat all candidates equally.
Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!
