Job Description

About the Opportunity

The Senior Quality Analyst is a key member of the Quality team, playing an integral role within a broader group that includes the Supply Chain Analytics Hub across Driscoll’s Supply Chain. This position leads advanced data analytics and reporting on fruit quality across Driscoll’s of the Americas (DOTA), leveraging data mining, analysis, and interpretation to drive quality performance and strategic initiatives. The Senior Quality Analyst plays a key role in shaping long-term quality strategies and ensuring data accuracy for leadership decision-making. The role is responsible for the continuous improvement and strategic development of the Quality Management System (QMS) and Quality Management Platform (QMP) by aligning system enhancements with evolving business needs. Additionally, the analyst identifies, monitors, and interprets quality trends from fruit inspection data and in-market insights, working closely with regional quality teams, audit teams, and other key stakeholders to proactively improve quality outcomes. This position leads quality project management efforts, overseeing short- and medium-term quality initiatives and collaborating across functions to implement data-driven operational improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provides quality management with data analysis, market insights, and recommendations for corrective actions or improvements within berry categories and regions.
• Delivers weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reports to the Quality System Manager, & other key stakeholders within Supply Chain ensuring accuracy and actionable insights.
• Leads system enhancement initiatives, including lower environment testing to improve efficiency, functionality and streamlining systems.
• Ensures system updates align with evolving business needs, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Manages and leads short- and long-term quality projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and cross-functional teams. 
• Interprets quality trends from data, offering insights to optimize product quality, shelf life, and market trends.
• Defines and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) related to product quality, defect rates, and supply chain performance.
• Collaborate closely with the analytics team across Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations teams to drive data-driven decision-making and enhance quality performance.
• Supports quality audit team with reporting and system enhancements for internal compliance metrics. 
• Develops and delivers a weekly quality narrative to the business summarizing current trends.
• Identifies and escalates quality situations requiring attention, sourcing relevant quality data trends across managed platforms. 
• Collaborate with all business stakeholders to support quality improvements in data collection & organization.
• Leads in training on quality systems, data analysis best practices, and compliance requirements to cross-functional teams including other business units.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree required with preferred emphasis on data analytics, statistics or agribusiness.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in data analytics supply chain experience preferred.

• Advance proficiency in Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite, and experience in supply chain systems.

• Experience with business management and leadership experience preferred, including cross-functional collaboration.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Spanish verbal and written capability is a plus.

• Proven ability to design, execute, and interpret analytical projects, delivering actionable insights for decision-making.

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, demonstrating strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

• Strong understanding of supply chain elements and functions.

• Demonstrated ability to balance multiple work assignments, projects and daily tasks.

• Ability to apply statistical problems, including, but not limited to, multivariate regression, data manipulation, statistical testing procedures, and results interpretation.

• Valid California driver’s license, passport and the ability to travel internationally.

• Requires 5%–10% domestic and potential international travel, as needed.

  Compensation & Benefits:

  The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the salary range and benefits for the position posted.  The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate is dependent upon experience, skills, education, work location, internal pay equity, and other objective job-related factors. 

  Salary Range estimated for Position Here : $73,800 to $95,000 USD .

  Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include :  401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP).  More detailed information regarding the benefits package, will be shared during the application process.

About Driscolls

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.

Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.

Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.

Driscoll's es el proveedor líder en la comercialización de Fresas, Frambuesas, Zarzamoras y Arándanos Azules en el mundo. Con más de 100 años de herencia en agricultura y cientos de productores independiente alrededor del mundo, Driscoll's es una compañía apasionada por cultivar Berries frescas, hermosas y deliciosas. Nuestros valores de humildad, pasión y confianza han guiado nuestra misión de deleitar a los consumidores en el mundo.

Las variedades exclusivas de Driscoll's han sido desarrolladas a través de años de investigación usando sólo métodos de mejoramiento natural. De la granja a la mesa, nos enfocamos en ofrecer una experiencia de alta calidad con apoyo de nuestros socios de la cadena de suministro.

Driscoll's es la marca de confianza de sólo las mejores Berries.

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