FSQA Manager – Produce, Herbs and Mushrooms (f/m/x)
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 2 days
Key Skills
Job Description
The role: What's in the Box
Are you passionate about food safety, supplier excellence, and driving quality standards across international supply chains?
We’re looking for an experienced FSQA Manager for Produce Herbs and Mushrooms to join our international Food Safety & Quality Assurance team in Amsterdam. You’ll take full ownership of this category, working with suppliers across Europe and with partners in Procurement, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Distribution Centres across multiple markets.
What you’ll do: The Recipe
- Lead food safety and quality management for the herbs & mushroom categories across international suppliers.
- Conduct on-site supplier audits and approval visits (Europe) to ensure compliance with EU food safety legislation and HelloFresh standards.
- Lead onboarding of new suppliers and products, ensuring full compliance with food safety, legal, traceability, and quality standards.
- Drive strategic quality improvement initiatives to reduce complaints and improve customer satisfaction.
- Own supplier performance metrics including complaints, out-of-spec deliveries, compliance KPIs, and corrective action follow-up.
- Investigate and manage quality incidents using structured root cause analysis and ensure robust corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
What you’ll bring: The Ingredients
- A science-based degree (e.g. Food Science, Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, or equivalent) is required.
- 3+ years of experience in Food Safety / Quality Management within the food industry.
- Experience in production, processing, or supply chains is highly preferred.
- Proven experience auditing food manufacturers (GFSI standards such as BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000).
- Solid understanding of EU food safety legislation and international supply chains.
- Excellent English skills (written and spoken).
- Willingness to travel in Europa; approximately 20% travel expected.
- Strong communication with the ability to influence suppliers across different cultures.
- Pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and confident in decision-making, even under pressure.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience working across multi-market organizations is a plus.
- Intermediate to advanced Google Suite / MS Office skills (Excel/Sheets, PowerPoint/Slides, Word/Docs).
Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. There are many different ways of developing skills, and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.
Are you the missing ingredient? If this sounds like a tasty opportunity, we’d be excited to hear from you. We aim to review your profile and respond within 5 business days.
What we offer: The Toppings
Compensation & Financial Wellbeing
- Enjoy 20% off HelloFresh and 40% off Factor_ subscriptions.
- Access the "Benefits at Work" platform for discounts on brands like Nike, Bol.com, and IKEA.
- You'll receive a HelloFresh laptop, a €250 home office setup budget, and contribute to the Bedrijfspensioenfonds Levensmiddelen pension scheme (2026 rate 27.6%; employer pays 19.64%, employee pays 7.96%).
Health & Wellbeing
- Benefit from discounts on ClassPass and gym memberships via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland, free bootcamp classes (Amsterdam), and free subscriptions to Headspace and OpenUp.
- Get a 7,5% discount on additional health insurance at Zilveren Kruis in 2025.
Flexibility & Work-Life
- Work flexibly with our hybrid setup (50% office, 50% remote), plus a €2.45 daily remote work allowance.
- Receive 24 days of annual leave (pro-rated), plus one additional day per year of service (up to 30 days total).
- Full reimbursement for 2nd-class public transport to the office, plus €0.23 per km for car and bicycle travel.
- Eligible employees can work from another country for up to 8 weeks per year.
Career & Development
- Grow with our "Learning Never Stops" mindset: access internal/external opportunities, and join our cross-market mentoring program.
- A dedicated annual budget to help you keep learning, developing new skills, and growing your career.
Culture & Environment
- Enjoy fresh homemade lunches in the office (€3.00/day), weekly vrij-mi-bo (Friday drinks), quarterly strategy sessions, and team events.
Are you up for the challenge?
Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.
Core Responsibilities
Lead food safety and quality management for the herbs and mushrooms categories, including supplier audits, approvals, and onboarding across European supply chains. Monitor supplier performance, investigate quality incidents, and drive corrective actions and improvement initiatives to reduce complaints and ensure compliance.
Requirements
A science-based degree and at least three years of food safety or quality management experience in the food industry are required; supplier auditing experience against GFSI standards and knowledge of EU food safety legislation are expected. Candidates should have strong English communication skills, be willing to travel approximately 20%, and be comfortable influencing suppliers and working across international teams.
Benefits
- HelloFresh Subscription Discount
- Factor_ Subscription Discount
- Employee Discount Platform
- Laptop
- Home Office Setup Budget
- Pension Scheme
- ClassPass Discount
- Gym Membership Discount
- Free Bootcamp Classes
- Headspace Subscription
- OpenUp Subscription
- Health Insurance Discount
- Hybrid Work Arrangement
- Remote Work Allowance
- Annual Leave
- Additional Annual Leave Based on Service
- Public Transport Reimbursement
- Car and Bicycle Travel Reimbursement
- International Remote Work Option
- Learning and Development Opportunities
- Annual Learning Budget
- Subsidized Office Lunches
- Team Events
About HelloFresh
Industry: Consumer Services
Company size: 10,001+ employees
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! HelloFresh was founded in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin and evolved to the world’s leading meal kit provider and a global digital-native FMCG company. HelloFresh Group consists of eight brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Every ingredient needed for our meals are carefully planned and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you. Only HelloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day. Making a meal a delicious achievement - not just fuel for your day - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, we’re collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry. Our more than 18,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, and London to Sydney enjoy a number of benefits including flexible working arrangements, discounts on our boxes, health and well-being and learning and development programs. We’re always looking for quality ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations