Quality Control / Quality Assurance Manager (User Commodities) at Sabi

Sabi is Africa's leading provider of enabling infrastructure powering the distribution of goods and services. Our platform enables and empowers a wide ecosystem of users, allowing agents, merchants, exporters, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi's technology rails. These rails provide access to physical goods supply, logistics, business tools, financial services and data insights. In a short span of two years, Sabi has grown to be the largest B2B marketplace on the African continent.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Control / Quality Assurance Manager (User Commodities)

Locations: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• As the Quality Control/Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring all commodities aggregated, supplied and traded by Sabi has zero quality defects, conforms with local and international quality and regulatory standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the global commodity quality assurance approach one the commodity side.
• Ensure QA/QC processes are in place and maintained properly.
• Create Global quality guidelines and procedures for all commodities traded on TRACE (Sabi commodities trading platform)
• Verify that specification provided by the client has been correctly understood.
• Ensure compliance with government produce regulations.
• Manage risks related to quality of commodities that belong to Sabi.
• Manage interface with farmers/Aggregators/Off-takers and third-party testing laboratories.
• Research and propose testing methods/mechanisms.
• Draft testing annexes in consultation with third-party services providers.
• Advise Commercial managers/Supply leads on necessary testing regimes.
• Review and analyze third-party lab test results, factory audit reports and corrective action reports.
• Liaise with suppliers/aggregators to find solutions and corrective measures to defective products.
• Establish the quality management system and procedures
• Review pre-shipment inspection and pre-shipment test reports.
• End to end responsibility of Sabi product traceability plan and implementation

Requirements, Special Skills and Qualifications

• Qualification (B.Sc, M.Sc or Diploma) or Standard training in Quality Assurance Management or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years agronomic field experience in relevant commodities.
• Certification of quality control is a strong advantage (IS0 9000 etc.)
• Knowledge of maintaining a robust QC/QA strategy
• Experience in implementing a QA/QC program.
• Knowledge of local and international quality/regulatory guidelines.
• Proficiency in MS office.

Candidate Specification:

• Motivated by the mission of Sabi
• Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
• Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
• A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.