Requisition ID: 39290 

Quality & Food Safety Lead

At Molson Coors, quality is more than a standard—it's a promise to our consumers. We're looking for an experienced Quality & Food Safety Lead who will play a critical role in ensuring that every product leaving our brewery meets the highest quality and food safety standards.

This is a role for someone who combines strong technical expertise with natural leadership. You'll lead quality and food safety activities across the site, manage a team of specialists, partner with key stakeholders across the business, and drive a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility. If you enjoy solving complex challenges, improving processes, developing people, and making a visible impact on the products consumers love, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

As our Quality & Food Safety Lead, you'll be at the heart of ensuring product integrity, consumer safety, and regulatory compliance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the site's Quality & Food Safety agenda and ensuring compliance with company standards, legal requirements, and industry regulations.
• Managing and developing the Quality Control team and laboratory operations, creating an environment focused on excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Overseeing laboratory activities, including microbiological, sensory, physical, and chemical analyses.
• Acting as the site's subject matter expert for Quality & Food Safety, providing guidance and support to colleagues across Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, and other functions.
• Monitoring quality performance, consumer complaints, and process trends to identify improvement opportunities before they become issues.
• Driving root cause analysis, corrective actions, and risk mitigation initiatives to continuously improve product quality and food safety performance.
• Working closely with regional Quality & Food Safety teams to implement best practices, standards, and improvement programs.
• Supporting internal and external audits and maintaining strong relationships with regulatory authorities, auditors, contractors, and other external stakeholders.
• Ensuring effective management of non-conforming products and supporting product hold and release decisions when required.
• Championing a culture of quality through coaching, training, and capability building across the brewery.

What makes you a good fit

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical knowledge with the ability to lead and influence others.

You bring:

• At least 5 years of experience in brewing, beverage, food manufacturing, or a similar production environment.
• At least 3 years of experience in a quality management role.
• Strong knowledge of Food Safety, HACCP, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience leading quality processes, laboratory operations, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Confidence working with auditors, regulators, and external partners.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into action.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluency in English (B2)
• A relevant university degree in Quality, Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, Brewing, or a related field.

Why you'll enjoy this role

This role offers a unique blend of leadership, technical expertise, and business impact.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Influence quality and food safety strategy at site level.
• Lead a team and help develop future quality talent.
• Work closely with both local and regional stakeholders.
• Drive meaningful improvements that directly impact consumers and business performance.
• Shape a culture where quality and food safety are embedded in everything we do.

Benefits for you

• 5 weeks of vacation
• 3x Free days 
• Flexi Friday - flex your working schedule (if type of your works allows it) and take 1/2 or full day off on Friday
• More time off during the year in significant moments of your life - birth of child, your wedding/registered partnership, accompanying your child to 1st day of elementary school, when moving within/out of the city and more
• Maternal and paternal leave in specific cases - we offer this benefit also for our employees who are not covered by the current CZ legislation
• Flexible working hours
  
• Opportunity to take some more time off and ask for Sabbatical leave after 3 years at the company
• Multisport card
• Unlimited Home Office within Czech Republic (if type of your work allows it)
• Meal vouchers
• Pension contribution, Retirement contribution, Service award, Life and disability insurance
  
• Cafeteria 10 000 CZK/points per year
• Referral bonus - if you refer a new colleague, you can get a reward of 10-20 000 CZK/points to your Benefit Cafeteria system after they complete probation period
• Long-term sick leave support - you can ask for the adjustment up to 100% of your base salary
• Employee Assistance Program - legal, financial, psychological support
• Company sponsored events and our products for better price

You're curious, proactive and enjoy understanding how things work and finding better ways to do them. You build strong relationships, communicate with confidence, and thrive in environments where cooperation and improvement matter. Most importantly, you take pride in delivering products that consumers can trust.

Join us and help ensure every product we brew meets the highest standards of quality and food safety.

Pivovary Staropramen as a part of Molson Coors is an equal opportunity employer.  We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or any other characteristic. If you need any kind of support during the application or recruitment process, please send us an email at jobs@molsoncoors.com and our team will gladly assist you.
 

Pay and Benefits:

At Molson Coors, we’re committed to paying people fairly and equitably for the work they do.

Our Total Rewards package includes a gross base salary of Kč794,000.00 - Kč1,042,100.00 (yearly posting salary range) plus a 18% target annual bonus, alongside a comprehensive benefits offering designed to support different needs and life stages.

The salary range shown above reflects what we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of posting. Final pay is based on a number of non‑discriminatory factors, such as previous experience, skills and internal equity.