Job Details

Title: Quality Specialist - Warehouse and Product Release

Department: Quality & Regulatory

Location: Columbus, OH area

Employment Type: Full-time Contractor/1099

Reports To: Director, Quality & Regulatory

Job Summary:

Suave Brands Co, LLC (SBC) is a private label distributor of personal care cosmetic and OTC drug products. As a Quality Specialist at SBC focused on product release and compliance at our distribution warehouse, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest levels of product quality, regulatory compliance, and customer satisfaction. Your primary responsibilities will include ensuring compliance of product to release criteria and with regulations around the distribution and handling of product, performing labeling and artwork verification, investigating nonconforming events & managing CAPAs, and fostering a culture of quality excellence at the Columbus, OH distribution center.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executing the SBC product release process on site at the Columbus, OH distribution site. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address any identified issues before final release and customer distribution.
• Provide Quality support to warehouse distribution and Suave Inventory Management staff for product quarantines and additional tasks such as rework. Involves navigating a 1MM sq ft warehouse facility and providing guidance to the third-party provider on quality best practices and continuous improvement.
• Verify product labeling and artwork against standards and approved label copy when necessary.
• Collaborate with contract manufacturers to document delivery quality, paperwork and to resolve discrepancies.
• Stay up to date with regulatory changes and requirements, ensuring that SBC's processes and procedures at the distribution center are aligned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Life Sciences, Chemistry, or a related discipline).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a quality assurance or quality control role within the personal care or consumer goods industry.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements, including Good Distribution Practices and FDA regulations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct root cause analysis effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Experience with nonconformance investigations and corrective actions implementation.
• Experience with Business Central, Quality Management System, Korber WMS systems.

Personal Attributes:

• Positive and energetic individual with a strong business acumen, and an abiding sense of urgency to achieve results.
• Consumer-centric, creative, and design-oriented.
• Inquisitive individual who has a history of seeking out best practices and successfully assimilating them into their organization.
• Invokes trust, collaboration, shared accountability, and continuous improvement with the ability to quickly develop trust and loyalty at all levels in the organization and with external partners.
• Knows what excellence looks like and how to get there.
• Ability to develop and implement strategy, with a high bias for execution and activation, comfort with getting hands dirty.
• Demonstrated track record of problem solving and priority setting.