Sr. Manager Food Safety Culture

About the role

The Senior Manager, Food Safety Culture is responsible for developing, leading, and sustaining a strong, enterprise-wide food safety culture. This role champions mindset behavior, and capability improvements across the organization to ensure that food safety is deeply embedded in daily operations, decision-making, and leadership practices. The Senior Manager partners closely with Quality, Operations, HR, R&D, Procurement, and senior leadership to drive cultural maturity, enable consistent global expectations, and ensure frontline engagement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year global Food Safety Culture strategy aligned to corporate Quality & Food Safety priorities.
• Define the organization’s Food Safety Culture framework, maturity model, and metrics.
• Partner with senior leaders to embed food safety expectations into company values, leadership behaviors, and performance objectives.
• Serve as the subject-matter expert on food safety culture science, behavioral change, and organizational psychology as it relates to food safety.
• Strengthen site-level ownership through coaching, workshops, and capability-building initiatives.
• Develop materials and communication campaigns that reinforce key behaviors and drive cultural consistency.
• Create recognition and incentive programs to celebrate best practices and promote a positive food safety mindset.
• Lead recurring culture maturity assessments across manufacturing sites, R&D, and supply chain partners.
• Develop KPI dashboards and reporting mechanisms to measure mindset, behavior, and performance outcomes.
• Analyze trends and partner with sites to close culture gaps through targeted action plans.
• Benchmark internally and externally to ensure the organization maintains industry-leading culture standards.
• Collaborate with Quality Teams, Operations, R&D, Procurement, HR, Learning & Development, and Communications teams.
• Support integration of food safety culture expectations into onboarding, leadership development, and operations excellence programs.
• Engage with suppliers, co-manufacturers, and external partners to ensure alignment with the company’s food safety culture expectations.
• Support root-cause analysis and incident reviews with culture insights related to behavior, training, and environmental factors.
• Ensure compliance with global food safety standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Quality, Behavioral Science, Organizational Development, or related field.
• Master’s degree in Food Safety, Organizational Psychology, or related field, preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Food Safety, Quality Assurance, or Operational Excellence in the food or consumer goods industry.
• Proven experience leading large cultural, behavioral, or change-management initiatives.
• Strong knowledge food safety culture expectations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership presence.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, including executives and frontline employees.
• Certification in change management or leadership development, preferred.
• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

Skills for Success

• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Quality, Behavioral Science, Organizational Development, or related field.
• Master’s degree in Food Safety, Organizational Psychology, or related field, preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Food Safety, Quality Assurance, or Operational Excellence in the food or consumer goods industry.
• Proven experience leading large cultural, behavioral, or change-management initiatives.
• Strong knowledge food safety culture expectations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership presence.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, including executives and frontline employees.
• Certification in change management or leadership development, preferred.
• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

The skills for success

• Experience in global roles with multi-site manufacturing environments, preferred.
• Strong project management and data-driven decision-making skills, preferred.

What we offer

• Salary Range
• Pay Transparency
• Equality