About the role
Are you a quality-driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact? We’re looking for a collaborative and results-focused Head of Quality Delivery to join our team of quality champions and help elevate our standards to best-in-class.
In this pivotal leadership role, you’ll work alongside other senior quality leaders to ensure the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of high-quality products across all our sites. You’ll lead a team focused on product release, customer quality improvement projects and complaint resolution. Playing a key role in guaranteeing customer satisfaction delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of quality delivery in a business committed to excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead quality delivery across all sites, from material release to customer complaint closure.
- Be the go-to expert for quality escalations - ensuring swift, thorough risk assessments and resolutions.
- Champion customer satisfaction, building strong relationships and ensuring we exceed expectations.
- Drive performance across key metrics: Right First Time/ Fit to Ship, Release time and Complaints Rate.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to align quality delivery with business goals and operational excellence.
- Inspire and develop your team, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute strategically as part of the Quality & Lab leadership team, shaping the future of quality at our company.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven leadership experience in quality, ideally within dairy, infant formula, or food manufacturing.
- Deep knowledge of food safety, compliance, and quality systems.
- A collaborative, people-first leadership style that brings teams together to solve problems and deliver results.
- A continuous improvement mindset with a strong focus on customer outcomes.
- The ability to influence, inspire, and drive change across complex environments.
Applicants outside of New Zealand will only be considered if you have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Why Join Us?
This is your chance to lead a quality transformation in a business that values excellence, innovation, and integrity. You’ll work with passionate people, make a real difference for our customers, and help shape a best-in-class quality culture. Apply now and be part of something exceptional.
About us
Synlait is a dynamic, purpose-led milk nutrition company that is Doing Milk Differently for a Healthier World!
We pride our organisation as being different and allowing our spirit to drive our success, shifting perceptions and driving value through new thinking and a new attitude.
You’ll be joining down-to-earth, authentic people working together to create the very best in milk nutrition as we combine expert farming with innovative thinking and state-of-the-art processing to produce a range of nutritional milk products for our global customers.
We will challenge you by providing the opportunities you’ve been seeking to expand your career; we believe that everyone brings unique experiences and perspectives to the table so are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and embrace diversity to drive innovation and business success.
What we offer:
- Health insurance cover & partnered with top brands for great benefits and discounts
- Excellent parental leave with our Matua policy
- B Corp TM certified
- Social Club membership opportunities
What's next?
Include your most recent CV and cover letter summarising your abilities and what you can bring to Synlait. We wish you the best of luck in your application. We encourage you to apply early as we will be reviewing applications regularly and may close the advertisement early.
Together we will continue to create a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best.
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