Gruns
Quality Assurance Manager, International
Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will own the quality system for all markets outside the US, including product release, specifications, and manufacturer oversight. You will build and run Quality Management System processes to ensure compliance with EU and local market requirements.
What you will do
- Release finished products after verifying specs, COAs, manufacturing docs, deviations, and market-specific requirements
- Own consumer complaint intake and triage
- Build and run traceability, recall, complaint, adverse-event, and food safety incident processes for EU products
- Own supplier and contract manufacturer qualification including audits, CAPAs, and performance monitoring
- Run BMT testing and oversee microbiological, chemical, allergen, contaminant, nutritional, and stability testing
- Assess quality and regulatory risk on formulations, ingredients, suppliers, processes, and packaging
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs to keep formulations, specs, labels, and packaging compliant
- Own quality oversight of international manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, and distribution partners
- Set and monitor international quality KPIs
Required qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of quality assurance experience in dietary supplements
- Meaningful time spent on products sold outside the US
- Hands-on US and EU regulatory experience for dietary supplements
- Knowledge of FDA requirements including cGMP (21 CFR Part 111), labeling, and claims
- Knowledge of EU food supplement rules
- Managed quality processes for food supplements sold in the EU and across multiple regulatory jurisdictions
- Working knowledge of EU food supplement quality requirements including GMP, food safety, HACCP, traceability, recall, allergen management, and supplier controls
- Depth in core quality systems including CAPAs, investigations, root cause analysis, specification creation, document control, and change control
- Experience qualifying, auditing, and managing external manufacturers and co-packers
- Experience contributing materially to a recall, withdrawal, or market action
- Ability to own stability protocols and manage third-party labs
- Ability to work across US, UK/EU, and Asia time zones
Nice to have
- Experience across multiple EU member states
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Strong benefits coverage for you and your family
- Generous PTO
- Free Grüns
About the company
Grüns provides comprehensive nutrition through gummies formulated from 60 nutrient-dense and whole-food ingredients. The company aims to make foundational nutrition simple, convenient, and delicious.