This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 6000000 (ie INR 30 - 60 LPA)
Min Experience: 10+ years
Location: Hyderabad
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced Head of Quality and Compliance to lead food quality assurance, food safety, and regulatory compliance across manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail outlets, and online distribution channels.
The role will establish and maintain consistent quality standards across the business, ensuring compliance with FSSAI regulations and relevant international food safety standards. The individual will be responsible for protecting consumer safety, maintaining product consistency, ensuring audit readiness, and supporting business expansion and export operations.
Function: Quality Assurance, Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance
Reporting To: Vice President – Operations, with direct access to the Managing Director / CEO for critical food safety and regulatory matters
Location: Hyderabad (Central Production Unit), with travel to stores, production sites, warehouses, suppliers, contract manufacturers, and logistics partners
Experience: 12–15 years, including at least 5 years leading quality across multiple production sites or a retail chain
Team: Production QA Executives, Store Hygiene Auditors, Laboratory, Documentation, and Regulatory Staff
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
1. Food Safety Management System & Quality Assurance
Establish, implement, and maintain the Food Safety Management System (FSMS) across production units, warehouses, and retail outlets.
Lead the implementation and certification of ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, SQF, and other relevant GFSI-benchmarked standards.
Oversee HACCP, GMP, GHP, prerequisite programmes, SOPs, documentation, and change-control processes.
Lead internal audits, management reviews, and certification and surveillance audits.
Conduct regular quality reviews, identify non-conformities, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
Manage in-house laboratory operations and testing programmes through NABL-accredited laboratories.
Ensure appropriate testing of raw materials, packaging, and finished products for microbiological, chemical, and adulteration risks.
Maintain accurate quality records and implement digital audit, documentation, and traceability systems.
2. FSSAI Licensing, Regulatory Compliance & Inspections
Ensure all production units, stores, and warehouses maintain valid FSSAI licences and registrations.
Maintain a compliance register covering licence scope, renewals, conditions, display requirements, and location-specific permissions.
Ensure compliance with the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, and applicable FSSAI regulations, including labelling, additives, permitted colours, contaminant limits, and display requirements for loose sweets.
Lead preparations for FSSAI audits, food safety inspections, and official product sampling.
Coordinate with regulatory authorities and ensure accurate documentation and timely responses to inspection observations and show-cause notices.
Assign corrective actions, monitor closure timelines, and verify the effectiveness of implemented measures.
Maintain audit-ready records covering testing, traceability, sanitation, pest control, training, and product disposition.
3. Labelling, Packaging & Legal Metrology
Review and approve product labels, packaging artwork, and online product listings before launch.
Ensure mandatory declarations covering ingredients, allergens, nutrition, dates, and other regulatory requirements are accurate.
Ensure Legal Metrology compliance for packaged products, including net quantity, MRP declarations, registrations, and weighing equipment.
Review product and marketing claims for regulatory compliance.
Coordinate Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and plastic waste compliance with relevant internal teams.
4. Raw Material & Supplier Quality Management
Establish quality specifications for milk, khoa,…