Vice President, Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Openfarminc

United States, United States
On-site
Food safety strategy
Quality assurance systems
Regulatory compliance
Open Farm is seeking a Vice President of Food Safety & Quality Assurance to lead food safety and quality initiatives, ensuring compliance and excellence in product integrity across its rapidly growing operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in food safety within high-growth consumer packaged goods environments, with a focus on both strategic leadership and operational excellence

Job Summary

  • The Vice President, Food Safety & Quality Assurance will lead all aspects of food safety, quality assurance, regulatory compliance and relations, and will provide strategic input into new product innovation projects.
  • This executive will architect and continuously strengthen a best-in-class FSQA function that supports rapid growth, product innovation, global expansion, and increasing operational complexity.
  • The role requires both visionary leadership and operational rigor—building scalable systems, strengthening supplier and co-manufacturing networks, embedding quality into innovation processes, and ensuring Open Farm remains an industry benchmark for safety, transparency, and animal welfare standards.

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Open Farm is seeking a Vice President of Food Safety & Quality Assurance to lead food safety and quality initiatives, ensuring compliance and excellence in product integrity across its rapidly growing operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in food safety within high-growth consumer packaged goods environments, with a focus on both strategic leadership and operational excellence.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • food safety strategy
  • quality assurance systems
  • regulatory compliance
  • supply chain oversight
  • new product innovation

Nice-to-have

  • visionary leadership
  • operational rigor
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • risk management
  • brand protection

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience
  • Bachelor's degree in food science or related discipline
  • Executive-level responsibility
  • Complex, multi-site or outsourced manufacturing environments

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