Quality Assurance Regional Manager- Minnesota

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Balchem is committed to making the world a healthier place by delivering trusted, innovative, and science-based solutions for the health and nutritional needs of the world. Balchem employs approximately 1,400 employees worldwide who provide the service, quality, and technology that enables our customers to win with their customers. We have built a reputation for delivering results to all of our stakeholders. Founded in 1967, Balchem, a Maryland corporation, became a publicly-traded company in 1970 and is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “BCPC.” Our corporate headquarters is located in Montvale, New Jersey, and we have a broad network of sales offices, manufacturing sites, and R&D centers, primarily located in the U.S. and Europe. The Company consists of three business segments: Human Nutrition and Health, Animal Nutrition and Health, and Specialty Products.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Quality Assurance Regional Manager- Minnesota is a key member of the corporate quality leadership team, responsible for ensuring that products manufactured across multiple sites are safe, compliant with Balchem, customer, and regulatory standards, and meet quality expectations. This role drives a culture of excellence through leadership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration.

People:

• Responsible for development and performance of the regional quality team
• Builds strong cross functional relationships and demonstrates ability to effectively influence sites strategy
• Develops a culture that drives quality improvements and efficiently interfaces with operational excellence processes
• Develop and deliver training programs focused on food safety and quality.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
• Timely escalation and communication of food safety, quality, financial issues
• Effectively cascade goals using tools such as SMART goals. Aligns with teams on standard work.
• Motivates and builds team strength

Systems:

• Accountable for the effective application of Product Safety, Product Quality and prerequisite systems regionally. Ensures these systems effectively interface with change control and commercialization processes.
• Strong ability to root cause issues and eliminate the cause or implement engineering or systems improvements to enact robust prevention. Applies use of basic root cause tools.
• Accountable for an effective internal audit program and ensures systems are working to reduce risk, and that corrective actions are completed
• Drives priorities that have largest positive impact on key performance indicators and metrics including but not limited to; Inspection/Compliance performance, First Pass Quality, Complaints, Disposals, Inventory Health, Customer Responsiveness, CAPA closure and effectiveness, systems performance, environmental & sanitation performance.
• Ensures that response to customers, inspectors and auditors are professional, timely, and in scope.
• Collaborates with R&D, Pr