Quality Data & Finished Goods Specification Manager

About the role

Company 🌱 RYZE was founded in 2019 by Andrée Werner and Rashad Hossain, out of a parents' basement, with a mission to change daily health, starting with the morning routine: a nutrient-dense mushroom coffee delivering clean energy, mental clarity, and immune support. Built on a Direct-to-Consumer foundation with a performance marketing engine, RYZE achieved hockey-stick growth and a community of over 1 million active subscribers. DTC remains the foundation, but RYZE has expanded into mass retail, quickly becoming the #2 item in Target's overall coffee category and is now executing a multi-channel expansion, with a cross-category launch coming in early 2027. RYZE is uniquely positioned to redefine how people think about daily wellness. We’re a lean, fast-moving, mission-driven team who believe daily rituals create the foundation for living your greatest life, and we’re just getting started!

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Senior Quality Manager, the Quality Data & Finished Goods Specification Manager will own the data backbone behind RYZE's quality decisions and lead the rebuild of our finished good specification system.
• As RYZE scales across DTC, mass retail, and a cross-category launch in early 2027, this role turns complaints, non-conformance, and audit data into clear insight - and translates it into action.
• In addition the role manages pragmatic and reliability improving product specs across our co-manufacturer network, looking for opportunities to always be more repeatable and systematic.
• Own all quality data analytics and processing, using complaint data to build CPMU insights that drive department decision‑making.
• Lead the design of key data trending, including foreign body drivers by type and site, allergens, serious complaints, and quality complaints.
• Lead data trending on non-conformances, tracking closure against agreed timeframes and escalating any at risk.
• Drive corrective action and site focus, giving Quality Managers clear direction on priority investigations and actions.
• Own and produce the data behind weekly and monthly quality reporting, and lead the complaints analytical meeting.
• Support quality system improvements, including the ongoing use of systems, keeping it simple and effective.
• Lead and develop RYZE's finished good specification format, rebuilding it to be practical and enforceable across the co‑manufacturer network.
• Build core product controls into every spec - ingredient order, blend time and speed by machine, product testing details, and label controls and approval.

Requirements

• 5+ years in quality data analytics, trending, or continuous improvement within food or beverage manufacturing.
• Strong analytical skills, with hands‑on experience turning complaints, NCR, and audit data into actionable insight (e.g. CPMU, foreign body, and allergen trending).
• Experience developing or owning finished good specifications, including process parameters (blend time/speed), product testing, and label controls.
• Familiarity with eQMS platforms and reporting/dashboard tools for quality data.
• Comfortable driving corrective action cross‑functionally, including directing investigations with Quality Managers across a co‑manufacturer network.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to lead cross‑functional analytical meetings and translate data into clear action.

Skills

• Low‑ego, team‑first mindset: the best idea wins, no matter whose it is.
• Self‑starter: sees what needs doing and gets after it, no waiting for direction.
• Comfortable in ambiguity: fast pace and shifting priorities energize you.
• Builder at heart: energized by a fast‑moving environment where you help create the processes and playbooks.
• Mission‑driven: genuinely cares about wellness and is excited to help build RYZE's next chapter.