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Product Safety and Quality Advisor Senior Jobs in United States at Ascendion
Title: Product Safety and Quality Advisor Senior
Company: Ascendion
Location: United States
About Ascendion
Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with enterprise clients across North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth.
Learn more at https://ascendion.com/.
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Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
- Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience
Experience a community of change makers!
Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
About the Role:
- Lead onboarding and qualification of new suppliers and manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance with food safety, GMP, and merchandise quality requirements, including risk assessments, audits, and readiness evaluations.
- Collaborate closely with R&D and Merch Development teams to establish material, process, and performance qualification standards, ensuring packaging solutions are robust, fit for use, and compliant prior to commercialization. Provide quality oversight during pilot runs, scale-ups, and first production, identifying gaps early and driving corrective actions to minimize downstream risk to retail operations.
- Assess manufacturing process capability (e.g., Cp/Cpk, control plans, validation activities) to confirm suppliers can produce consistent, high-quality merch before transitioning into full-scale manufacturing.
- Act as a trusted quality advisor on innovation governance, balancing speed-to-market objectives with commitment to product safety, quality, and customer trust
Job Title: Product Safety and Quality Advisor Senior
Key Responsibilities:
- Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e., testing supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of merchandising materials/items including but not limited to: Toys textiles drinkware accessories
- Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals, metrics, audit data, customer feedback, regulator, and workgroup input.
- Identify trends and lead investigation and resolution of merchandise and consumer products related concerns from regulators, retail stores, field QA partners or internal and external customers.
- Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams, including internationally based partners, to deliver results within demanding timelines.
- Act as a Retail Food Merchandise Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new merchandise initiatives or operating practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years of relevant experience
- MS Office Suite
- Smartsheet’s
- Basic Computer knowledge
- BA preferred
- Basic Lab Experience
- Ability to test for product safety
- Experience with merchandising
- Multi Categories and consumer products (toys, textile, drinkware, accessories, merchandising)
- Strong communication
- Attention to detail
- Experience with textile and garment experience, Merchandise (cups, plates, bottles, drink ware, Toys, Ornaments)
Desired Qualifications:
- Process improvement
- Exp building SharePoint or system experiences
Location: Remote (United States)
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $83,120 – $133,120 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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