Coca Cola
Manager Quality and Food Safety – Middle East Region
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 22/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
05/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
22/03/2026
Job description
The Manager Quality and Food Safety for the Middle East Region at Coca-Cola is responsible for ensuring integrity and effectiveness of Quality and Food Safety Systems by assuring compliance with regulatory, processing, and technical principles. The role includes implementing and monitoring The Coca-Cola Quality System (KORE) across products, packages, ingredients, services, fountain operations, and production facilities, conducting end-to-end Quality/Food Safety Assessments, developing corrective action and continuous improvement plans, and driving sustainability engagement with customer account teams. The manager provides technical guidance for new plants, processes, line investments, and product/package launches, supports market quality performance, develops new quality system applications, and ensures alignment with sustainability, regulatory, and food safety standards. The position requires working closely with bottling partners, co-packers, marketing, commercialization, R&D teams, and FSOP customers to achieve compliance, optimize operations, and implement sustainability initiatives.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Drive implementation of The Coca-Cola Quality System (KORE) ensuring compliance across products, packages, ingredients, services, fountain operations, and production facilities
- Monitor effectiveness of Quality and Food Safety programs to ensure 100% compliance and develop corrective action/continuous improvement plans
- Develop and implement business plans executing Quality & Food Safety strategy including compliance tracking, supplier approvals, design review, trend analysis, and technical problem solving
- Provide technical expertise to bottling partners, co-packers, and stakeholders for new plants, processes, and line investments, including technical validation programs
- Manage product and package quality performance in the market, support implementation of market surveys, and conduct Trade Planning & Management (TPM) studies
- Provide guidance on sampling requirements, laboratory liaison, and review of product formula and manufacturing processes
- Develop new processes, quality system applications, and monitor effectiveness for new category product manufacturing capability
- Support Business Unit Marketing, Commercialization, R&D teams, and Bottler Operations for product/package launches and system/line start-ups
- Create master mixing instructions and required data for bottling plants to produce products per company requirements
- Conduct technical plant visits to monitor quality and manufacturing processes and provide integrated technical support
- Train front line leaders on KORE requirements, laboratory analyses, manufacturing processes, and quality systems
- Build sustainability engagement processes with customer account teams to identify and evaluate partnership opportunities
- Assist in development of customer sustainability strategy through collaboration and technical advocacy
- Manage and/or conduct audits of fountain customers to evaluate conformance to beverage quality and food safety standards
Experience & skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Biology or related field
- 3+ years of progressive experience in quality systems management within a manufacturing environment, preferably in consumer goods
- Experience in Sustainability, scientific and regulatory affairs, Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001, Lean, Six Sigma, GFSI), food regulatory and microbiology
- Understanding of broader sustainability topics including water, energy & climate, sustainable agriculture, packaging and recovery
- Capability to review, analyze, summarize, and interpret quality systems data, draw conclusions, make decisions, write reports, and give presentations
- Mandatory Arabic speaker
- Advanced analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills
- Experience with system economics, value chain, supply chain finance
- Technical knowledge of bottling operations, beverage production technology, and supplier processes
- Management system knowledge and auditing process knowledge
- Ability to understand risks and create mitigation plans
- Knowledge of packaging, product, and ingredient
- Experience with Program Measurement and Measurement Verification
- Experience with customer teams and audits is preferred