Senior Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager – APAC

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🇸🇬 Singapore – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Wingstop UAE

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🍽️ Food & Beverage

👥 B2C

💰 Corporate Round - Wingstop UK on 2021-05

Food & Beverage • B2C

Wingstop UAE is the United Arab Emirates franchise operation of Wingstop, the Dallas-origin quick-service restaurant chain known for its chicken wings. Introduced to the UAE market by Eureka Restaurant and Cafe LLC (chaired by Abdulwahab Ilyas Galadari), Wingstop UAE operates multiple outlets across the country, serving fresh wings, seasoned fries, and signature sauces. It positions itself around bold, consistent flavors and is part of Wingstop’s global expansion and franchise network, aligned with the company mission “To Serve the World Flavor.

📋 Description

• Serve as the regional technical lead for Food Safety, Quality Assurance, and Product Specification & R&D support across APAC • Own the technical integrity of Wingstop’s products across their full lifecycle, from concept and specification development through supplier validation, commercialization, and ongoing quality performance in market • Develop, approve, and maintain product specifications, formulations, ingredient statements, allergen matrices, and labeling documentation for APAC food and packaging items • Translate product concepts into technically sound, manufacturable, and compliant specifications with Culinary and cross-functional stakeholders • Lead technical validation for NPD and EPD, including nutritional validation, regulatory review, shelf-life studies, organoleptic testing, and operational feasibility assessments • Attend and oversee production trials, first productions, and commercialization runs • Risk-assess, document, and communicate product changes, reformulations, and regional adaptations • Lead supplier approval, validation, and ongoing performance management across APAC • Develop and execute supplier quality strategies using KPIs, audit results, complaint data, and risk assessments • Analyze supplier production reports and third-party audit findings and ensure timely closure of corrective and preventive actions • Validate and approve new supplier facilities • Oversee TraceGains governance with Global FSQA • Serve as regional authority on food safety compliance and monitor evolving APAC regulatory requirements • Lead recall readiness and execution for APAC • Investigate food safety and quality incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions • Implement and monitor animal welfare, sustainability, and responsible sourcing standards • Partner with Brand Partners to strengthen food safety culture, complaint investigation processes, and operational compliance practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Food Engineering, or related scientific field (or equivalent experience) • 8+ years of progressive regional experience across food safety, quality assurance, technical services, or product development within QSR, poultry, food manufacturing, or food retail • Demonstrated experience supporting product commercialization, specification development, and supplier-based R&D initiatives • Strong working knowledge of GFSI standards, HACCP systems, allergen control, labeling regulations, and recall management across multi-country environments, particularly within APAC • Experience translating culinary or product concepts into technically robust and commercially viable specifications • Proven ability to conduct root cause investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions • Strong analytical capability to interpret audit findings, production data, and complaint trends to proactively mitigate risk • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Culinary, Supply Chain, Operations, and external suppliers without direct authority • Willingness and ability to travel across APAC markets (~40-50%) • Competence in Asia countries languages strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage (outpatient clinical, outpatient specialist, hospital & surgical) • Dental coverage • Life & TPD • AD&D • Work injury compensation • Business travel accident coverage • EAP • Business Travel Medical