Lise BERNARD

- Raw materials, packaging & critical consumables approval
- Subcontractors, carriers & service providers quality management
- Deviations & change control management
- Supplier quality assurance system owner

As SQA, I had to:
- Assure quality and consistency of Gum Base raw materials.
- Create material risk assessments and supplier improvement plans.
- Work in partnership with Commercial Buying Team and Site-based Quality Services identifies and executes inbound material cost, quality, food safety and efficiency improvement projects.
- Manage all inbound supply risks including material security, quality, food/product safety and regulatory compliance.
- Perform supplier site audits and ensures completion of identified corrective actions.
- Communicate effectively with multiple internal customers in Commercial, R&D and Supply.
- Perform supplier performance reviews and manages supplier performance metrics.
As a Team player I also:
- Lead the ways of working alignement for cross-regional suppliers management (globally).
- Lead the tracking of our Team performance metrics: Team workload, Overdue audits & Corrective Actions closure.

- Renovate one of the key Brands: major European 2014 project including product, process & packaging = packaging leader from R&D phase to launch (1 year & half)
- Initiate & develop packaging projects to improve quality & productivity, to reduce costs & carbon footprint: qualify and approve new suppliers or new specifications in collaboration with Procurement, Regulatory, Marketing and with European factories (Production, Quality, Finances, Logistic, Maintenance & Engineering)
- Create and update packaging specifications
- Build up short & long term packaging pipelines in alignment with company strategy

- Adhesives researches for cardboard slimpacks (flavor/hotmelt interaction to be considered) + Tear off tests protocol creation & entire analysis (Instron).
- Treated paper researches to replace current Aluminum/Paper complex + Shelf life tests.
- Supplier Qualification Standard Protocol revision + various Continuous Improvements & standardisation projects.

- Cap removal/opening/application/top load (Instron), drop tests, leak tests
- Dimensional/thickness measurements with softwares (Vertex & Magna-Mike)
- Reports, results analyses, put in order the storage area
- Fabric conditioner benchmarking (with measurements)
- Soluble capsules tests with a vacuum former
- Help for the new packaging laboratory creation & development.

- Establish a protocol of tests allowing the identification of the multicoated complex the most in adequacy with the standard life cycle of a cheese
- Collect the data sheets of the current complexes of all the cheeses produced in the company
- Follow-up of the losses of water during the life cycle on various sizes of "Maroilles" and on "Vieux Lille"
- Optimize the resistance of a parcel, thanks to the elaboration of some fitting
- Improve the conditions of preservation in temperature by the optimization of a pallet

- Microbiology: Tests on a wide range of diverse sample types
- Chemistry: Moisture, Oil content, Chloride and Vitamin C measurements
- Physic: Raw materials sieving for particle size quality control