Senior Food Safety Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement food safety strategies, program standards, and priorities across sweetgreen.

• Collaborate with company leadership on significant initiatives from conception to measurable outcomes.

• Utilize risk assessments, audit findings, and regulatory data to prioritize efforts and investments.

• Act as the technical expert for the Food Safety team.

• Assist regional partners with intricate investigations and high-risk escalations.

• Take responsibility for food safety performance within the NYC Region.

• Work alongside operators to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.

• Manage the NYC Region's third-party audit and pest control programs.

• Evaluate audit results, sanitation violations, customer complaints, temperature monitoring, and pest activity.

• Ensure the completion of corrective actions with prompt documentation.

• Create standard operating procedures (SOPs), training materials, crisis management protocols, and food safety reporting systems.

• Monitor food safety and quality performance, identifying risks early.

• Establish relationships with local health departments and guide operators through inspections and violations.

• Stay updated on changes in government regulations and industry best practices.

• Identify food safety and quality challenges and transform them into opportunities for continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in food safety or quality assurance, preferably within a multi-unit restaurant or quick service restaurant (QSR) environment.

• Proven history of developing and scaling food safety programs across an expanding footprint.

• Direct experience managing third-party audit programs and regulatory relationships.

• Experience serving as the technical escalation point for a distributed team or field organization.

• Bachelor of Science degree; preference for Food Science, Microbiology, Biological Science, or a related field.

• Proven ability to influence senior leaders on decisions that have operational and financial implications.

• Strong knowledge of pathogens and microbes related to food production, microbiological testing, HACCP, SOPs, and applicable government and industry regulations, codes, and standards governing food safety and quality.

• Proficient in food safety management and reporting systems.

• Skilled in root cause analysis and continuous process improvement.

• Willingness to travel up to 75% of the time.

• Self-motivated individual with high integrity who takes initiative and delivers results with minimal supervision.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary plus a bonus plan.

• Three distinct medical plans tailored to meet you and your family's needs.

• Dental and Vision insurance.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) plan.

• 401k retirement program.

• Employee Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• Complimentary greens.

• An opportunity to make a meaningful impact on those around you by fostering growth and connecting them to real food.

• Experience the sweetlife while pursuing your passion and purpose.

• Join a collaborative team that embodies our core values and supports one another.

• Clear career advancement opportunities for both personal and professional growth.

• Free sweetgreen merchandise.