Senior Quality Manager - LATAM

🕒 June 24

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Neogen Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Biotechnology • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Neogen Corporation is a biotechnology company that offers a comprehensive range of solutions and services aimed at ensuring food safety throughout the food chain. They cater specifically to the food processing, animal protein, and agriculture industries, helping to protect the global food supply while promoting efficient production practices. In addition to their primary focus on food safety, Neogen also serves the companion and performance animal sectors, as well as engaging in life sciences and toxicology fields.

📋 Description

• Own and be accountable for regional quality performance, compliance risk, and operational readiness across all LATAM sites. • Serve as the primary regional point of accountability for major quality events, regulatory interactions, and business-impacting quality risks. • Exercise appropriate quality authority, including the ability to stop production, place product on hold, or delay release when quality or compliance risks are identified. • Lead regional response to critical quality incidents, including recalls, regulatory enforcement actions, and supply continuity risks. • Lead deployment of Global Quality initiatives, standards, and transformation programs across LATAM. • Contribute to Global Quality strategy development by bringing forward regional insights, risks, and improvement opportunities from LATAM operations. • Ensure alignment of regional quality practices with global quality standards and organizational objectives. • Drive a Quality culture focused on compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. • Provide leadership and support to regional quality teams and site quality leaders.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong understanding of quality systems, compliance standards, and audit processes. • Experience working in highly regulated, multi-country LATAM environments. • Demonstrated experience leading through influence in matrixed organizations. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. • Experience within animal health, diagnostics, food safety, pharmaceutical, biotech, or manufacturing industries. • Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering, Biology, Microbiology, Animal Science, Food Science, Life Sciences, or related field. • 10+ years of progressive experience in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, or manufacturing environments. • 5+ years of leadership or people management experience. • Demonstrated experience working with major LATAM regulatory agencies (e.g., MAPA, ANVISA, SENASICA, COFEPRIS, SENASA, SAG, ICA, INVIMA) and global regulatory frameworks such as FDA. • Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 17025, and GMPs Lean Six Sigma or ASQ certification preferred. • Fluency in English, Spanish and Portuguese required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities