Selda Yurdakul

• Ensure all TD organization’s activities (from the supplier chain to the consumer) meet Turkish Food Codex, global QA and EU /FDA food safety and quality standards
• Lead, support and guidance to quality and other organization teams for compliance of food safety standards, legal requirements and customer expectations are met
• Establish and manage quality & food safety systems for facility, restaurants, warehouses, head office and delivery operation processes
• Monitor and improve product safety and quality of the existing food and packaging products and suppliers, through audits, specifications, complaint programs
• Work for monitor, report and improve the supplier performance by interpret technical data
• Collaborate with supply chain and R&D team trials for new products, new materials / raw materials and new suppliers and to participate in the approval processes.
• Monitors product complaints and consumer feedbacks, analyze root causes, follow up corrective actions and reports
• Lead on the Crisis Management Team on supply issues and actions with food safety implications.
• Manage laboratory analyze procedures within Food Codex
• Manage 2nd and 3rd party audits for monitoring the effectiveness of QA system, follow corrective actions in case of non-compliance
• Identify and manage the Quality Department budget
• Determine, monitor and report quality KPI's
• Make trend analyzes and manage improvement projects for quality systems
• Identify the development needs of quality team, initiate action plans and follow up performance management systems for team

• Provide leadership, support and guidance to comply with food safety and quality standards (ISO certification), legal requirements and customer /consumer expectations
• Provide implementation of the quality systems to ensure that all raw, packaging materials and finished goods meet the required quality standards at warehouse and stores
• Manage HACCP, CP, PRP, GMP, pest control, calibration, traceability, laboratory, analyzes and internal / supplier audit processes
• Provide leadership for Quality Assurance & Improvement initiatives throughout whole Supply Chain (approval supplier / raw materials, supplier visits and assessments)
• Cooperate with R&D, Marketing, Sales and Partner Suppliers to ensure that to create expected project targets, schedules and specifications for new products, new packages and processes
• Analyze root cause of food safety and quality issues at warehouse / store / supplier level, following the actions taken
• Trailing employee about like as food safety, quality, environment trainings
• Analyze QA KPIs' and report to mid.&sr. level management
• Manage performance and improvement of QA/QC team
• Lead, influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment

• Maintain to documantation, implement, verification, up to date and improvement of food safety & quality processes by using relevant tools
• Ensure all processes comply with (national/international) current legislation, food safety, quality, environment, aviation safety , IATA and company standards
• Prepare and keep up to date all food safety & quality documents
• Coordinate and lead the product safety system during production (HACCP, CCP, PRP, GMP, calibration, traceability, hygiene, sanitation, food defense, allergen management, laboratory analyzes, pest control, audit...)
• Manage to approve supplier/product and evaluate supplier performance
• Cooperate suppliers to ensure that to create project targets&schedules and product spects for new products / packages / service
• Ensure that all raw / packaging materials used and all finished goods meet the required quality standards.
• Supervise daily production / service operations and find solutions for emerging operational issues
• Track KPIs and ensure regular quality meetings with plant management team to discuss quality / food safety agenda
• Report periodic the effectiveness and compliance of all management systems to top management team
• Verify food safety plans of production lines with new raw material / product dev.
• Plan / manage internal and supplier audits
• Manage actions about consumer complaints and satisfaction (surveys, visits etc.)
• Work on root cause of incorrect and consumer complaints with food safety team for effective corrective actions and follow taken actions
• Ensure safety & quality trainings are completed for all employee at annual bases
• Manage environmental responsibility processes and calculate carbon footprint

• Ensure to comply food safety-legal standards of fresh food depart.
• Keep up to date the documentation system
• Analyze and report quality KPI's / customer feedback
• Perform planned internal audits, participating external audits

• Determine needed resources for actualize production targets
• Plan daily / weekly / monthly production quantity targets
• Analyze production, inventory, loss, customer feedback, audits and quality results for continuous improvement
• Follow up taken actions of defective product - processes and damaged machine-equipment-building
• Analyze root cause of feedback, plan/implement preventive act.
• Follow up performance of production team and improve them
• Training staff about food safety, production and health safety
• Ensure comply to legal, ISO/BRC and OHS requirements of store