WHY OATLY?

Across the world people’s consumption habits and diets are evolving to be more plant-based. Enter Oatly, the #1 oat based dairy alternative producer in the world with products spanning multiple categories.

We’re determined on being part of the discussion on the long-term future of the food and beverage industry. To keep this movement going, we need more brilliant minds to come work with us to keep the momentum going and the Oatly flowing.

Our sole purpose as a company is to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planet's resources in the process.

Sustainability, nutritional health and trust are at the heart of what we do. We are building a culture that constantly upgrades each other so we can upgrade the planet. This is a company that shows great respect and a fearless approach to make positive change. Does this feel exciting? Well, this is where you come in.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO

We are looking for a senior Quality & Regulatory Affairs (Q&RA) professional to take a leading role in driving both strategic and operational initiatives across a diverse project portfolio. In this position, you will act as a trusted partner within cross-functional teams, ensuring that quality and regulatory requirements are embedded from the earliest stages and consistently upheld throughout the entire project lifecycle.

You will play a key role in shaping scalable, compliant routes to market by coordinating subject matter experts, strengthening processes, and driving continuous improvements. With a strong mandate, you will also serve as a critical decision-maker, managing risks and ensuring that all activities meet the highest quality and regulatory standards.

Here’s the main elements of the role...

• Lead Q&RA activities across global and local projects, ensuring alignment with strategy and regulatory requirements.

• Act as Q&FS subject matter expert throughout the full project lifecycle, including risk assessments, criteria definition, and stage-gate deliverables.

• Coordinate Q&RA workstreams across product, process, market, and compliance initiatives.

• Drive implementation of global PD Flow Q&RA processes where applicable and needed, ensuring compliant and effective execution.

• Deliver Q&A deliverables according to the company's Capex project model.

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of global processes and sub-processes.

• Coach and guide teams on Q&RA standards, promoting a risk-based mindset.

• Ensure end-to-end Q&RA and food safety compliance across projects and launches.

• Lead product risk assessments integrating quality, food safety, and regulatory aspects.

• Review and challenge validation strategies and readiness for implementation.

• Act as escalation point for complex food safety and regulatory decisions.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across PD, S&T, SQA, Compliance, Supply Chain Commercial teams and internal/external manufacturing sites.

• When needed coordinate external consultants in alignment with Global RA and Sustainability leadership.

• Support and/or lead additional Quality and Food Safety initiatives aligned with business priorities.
  

In this role, you will work closely with a broad range of stakeholders across the organization, including the Global Q&RA team, Innovation, Product Development, Technical Product Management, Global Engineering, Science & Technology and internal/external manufacturing sites. You will also partner with Commercial and Creative (ODMC) teams, the Sustainability function and when needed external consultants and legal advisors to ensure alignment, compliance, and successful delivery of Q&RA deliverables in projects.

In this role, you will be expected to travel 4-8 times/year to various locations globally. You will report into Global Director QA Market & Innovation and the location for this role is in Landskrona and/or Malmo.

This next section is for all the bullet point lovers out there...

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO BRING TO THE TABLE

We are looking for you who have at least 10 years of experience in food quality or regulatory affairs in a global function.

Other key competencies & experiences:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in food quality, food safety, regulatory or similar scientific discipline.

• Job-specific education and job-specific training is a must.

• General knowledge of quality-related topics (e.g. HACCP, auditing, supplier quality assurances, raw material testing etc.)

• Proven project management experience and skills.

• Good level of knowledge of microbiology requirements, contaminants and allergen management is also preferable.

WHO WE NEED YOU TO BE

We think your oatsomeness is built upon the following qualities:

• You are a service-minded and flexible team player who acts without prestige, consistently maintaining a high level of service while collaborating to find the best solutions.

• You have problem-solving skills essential for identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.

• You are a self-starter who enjoys building from scratch and implementing sustainable processes, structures, and tools.

• You are highly collaborative and understand that our success as a company depends on our ability to work together to find innovative solutions.

• You have a charismatic presence and a knack for steering conversations while diplomatically focusing the room on what matters.

• You are an entrepreneur at heart, with the know-how to create forward momentum and the stamina to relentlessly drive the process.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and chaos, energized by the challenge of building something lasting that benefits both the world and its people.

To be the perfect fit for Oatly, we believe you have a thirst for knowledge and are a result-driven person with high integrity. You thrive with a hands-on approach, even in times of rapid change. Your social competence allows you to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.

Finally, we hope that you share our values and have a great interest to carry out our mission in order to make the world a little bit better. 

Another bulleted list felt redundant, so we made this page talking about all the benefits we offer to sweeten the deal of working with us before you apply – if you're curious, check out this fancy page right here!

YOUR APPLICATION

Phew! Well done if you’ve got this far. We’re glad we’ve still got your attention because we’ve got one last super important point to make.

As you can probably tell, we’re a norm-breaking company. For us, diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates can sometimes be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box, and that makes us really sad. So please trust your gut and pop in your application if it’s feeling right. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, let’s do this together! It will be fun!

Last day of application: 3rd July.

We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested, please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there. This will ensure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone!

Love Oatly XOXO

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