Quality Assurance Manager - Customer Supply Chain

FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager - Customer Supply Chain

Location: Nigeria

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• The Quality Assurance Manager - Customer Supply Chain is responsible for ensuring quality and food safety compliance across Customer Supply Chain operations, including logistics, warehousing, distributors, and trade channels.
• The role drives proactive quality management, complaint reduction, risk assessment, customer support, and crisis management to ensure FrieslandCampina products consistently meet company standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.

Vacancy Description

Quality & Food Safety Governance:

• Ensure Customer Supply Chain and Commercial processes comply with FrieslandCampina quality standards as well as customer and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement quality procedures relating to warehousing, transportation, crisis management, complaints management, and store audits.

Audits & Market Surveillance:

• Conduct distributor, warehouse, and market audits, competitor product evaluations, and market surveys to proactively identify risks and reduce complaints, returns, damages, and losses.

Customer & Regulatory Quality Support:

• Manage quality and food safety communication with customers and regulatory authorities, addressing customer requirements, certificates, specifications, ingredient information, and food safety-related inquiries.

Risk Management for Innovation & Change:

• Participate in commercialization and new product development projects, ensuring food safety and quality risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated at the earliest stages of implementation.

Third-Party Quality Management:

• Audit and monitor outsourced partners, warehouses, and logistics providers to ensure compliance with FrieslandCampina quality standards. Drive corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives where required.

Complaints & Corrective Action Management:

• Manage the end-to-end complaint handling process, analyze complaint trends, drive root cause investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions to improve customer satisfaction and reduce recurrence.

Customer Feedback & Quality Communication:

• Drive a consistent approach to customer quality support and feedback management, leveraging insights to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen customer confidence in FrieslandCampina products.

Crisis & Incident Management:

• Actively identify and escalate food safety and quality risks.
• Support crisis management activities, coordinate preparedness programs, facilitate training and mock exercises, and ensure adherence to crisis management procedures.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drive quality improvement initiatives across the customer supply chain by leveraging data, trend analysis, and stakeholder collaboration to continuously enhance product quality and operational performance.

What we Ask

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Engineering, Quality Management, or a related discipline
• Minimum 5–8 years' experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Supply Chain Quality, or FMCG manufacturing
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, Food Safety Management Systems, and quality auditing
• Experience in warehousing, logistics, distributor quality management, and customer quality support
• Knowledge of regulatory and customer quality requirements within the FMCG industry
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in root cause analysis and corrective action management
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience with SAP and Power BI is an added advantage.

What we Offer

A culture that’s truly global, yet deeply connected:

• Rooted in our Dutch heritage and grown across the world, FrieslandCampina brings together diverse perspectives into one collaborative culture. Here, where working across markets, teams, and ideas is part of everyday life.

A place where your growth is continuously unlocked:

• From structured training and coaching to hands-on, real-world exposure, you’re empowered to shape your own career path. Opportunities will evolve as you do, with local and international mobility that’s actively encouraged.

Work that works for you:

• We believe performance thrives with balance. We are offering competitive rewards, flexible ways of working, and benefits that support both your personal and professional life. That way, we ensure you’re well equipped to truly Unleash your Nature.

An environment that brings out your best:

• We pride ourselves on being informal, friendly, and driven. You’ll work alongside passionate people who challenge, support, and inspire each other to raise the bar every day.

The freedom to make a real impact:

• Here, trust and autonomy aren’t just words - they’re how we operate. You’re empowered to take ownership, create long-term impact, and contribute to something bigger: nourishing the world.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.