FSQ Manager
GOURMEY
Paris, France
Posted on Apr 11, 2025
Want to build a tastier future through cutting-edge technologies? We are looking for a mission-driven, creative, and committed Food Safety Quality (FSQ) Manager to join us 🦆. Come and bring your skills to the table!
GOURMEY is one of Europe's leading cultivated meat companies with global ambitions. Our vision is to create sustainable cultivated meat delights directly from animal cells for a conscious generation.
We believe in a world where succulence can share a table with positive impact and that cutting-edge technology combined with culinary arts can help us get there From engineers or scientists to culinary experts, we’re building an international team that shares the same passion for positive change. Currently a team of 65 Gourmates, we have dozens of nationalities at the table! Our differences are our strengths and our common language is food.
As a FSQ Manager, you will be an integral part of our Quality & Regulation team, focusing on ensuring food safety and quality within our upstream cell culture and bioprocessing operations. You will leverage a background in the pharmaceutical and/or biologics industries to adapt to relevant food regulations and maintain our high standards of food safety.
At GOURMEY, you will report directly to our Head of Quality & Regulation, Brian Chun, ensuring food safety and quality in our operations. You’ll work closely with our R&D, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to uphold compliance with global food standards while fostering a practical, quality-first mindset. You will also be expected to regularly support our production teams on the production floor.
- Department
- Quality & Regulatory
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Paris
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Brian Chun
What will you be responsible for?
- Develop, maintain, and implement GOURMEY’s Food Safety Plans and HACCP programs, ensuring GMPs and preventive controls are current and effective.
- Serve as a Food Safety Team Leader and/or Site Quality Assurance Manager for internal manufacturing and R&D pilot processing.
- Train teams on aseptic techniques, sanitation verification, environmental monitoring, and other food safety practices.
- Monitor and address risks in R&D, lab, and production environments, applying practical and balanced food GMP compliance strategies.
- Evaluate and optimize manufacturing processes and facility designs to meet food safety and GMP standards, integrating pharmaceutical techniques where beneficial.
- Support the development and implementation of QA programs for GOURMEY’s Food Safety Quality Management System (FSQMS).
- Investigate quality deviations, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Conduct hygienic design reviews and integrate Quality by Design (QbD) principles into product and process development.
- Manage supplier review programs, including risk assessments, audits, and compliance documentation.
- Analyze lab data, adjust sampling plans and specifications, and provide data-driven insights for continuous improvement.
- Track KPIs, lead quality improvement initiatives, and collaborate on cross-functional process enhancements.
- Address customer complaints and nonconformances, leading root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
- Maintain and manage electronic systems for food safety and quality assurance.
What about you?
- B.S. or M.S. in Food Science, Microbiology, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in food safety and quality assurance, including aseptic processing
- 4+ years as the accountable manager of food safety programs under US (21 CFR 117) or EU (Regulation (EC) No 852/2004) standards.
- HACCP certified
- PCQI certified (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual)
- GFSI practitioner certification (FSSC 22000, SQF, or BRC)
- Expertise in food GMPs, HACCP, microbiology, and environmental monitoring programs
- Strong knowledge of US (FDA/USDA) and EU regulations, GFSI schemes (FSSC 22000 is preferred), and associated cGMPs
- Proven ability to evaluate and streamline processes to meet safety standards efficiently
- Strong analytical skills for interpreting and utilizing complex data
- Effective communicator, comfortable collaborating across teams and with external partners
- Fluent in English (written and spoken); French or additional languages are a plus.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
What do we offer?
You will join a fast-growing startup located in the center of Paris, with a global ambition to build the future of food through cutting-edge technologies in an inclusive work environment valuing the importance of work-life balance.
We offer:
- ⭐️ GOURMEY’s ESOP
- 🌴 25 days of paid leave + extra holidays (depending on your contract)
- 🧑⚕️ Attractive Health insurance policy (higher than the minimum required)
- 🍌 Meal vouchers (We use Swile)
- 🎳 Work-life balance monitoring
- 🚴 Sustainable transportation and offer extra compensation to those who cycle to work
- 🍎 Fresh fruits and nuts delivered weekly
- 🎡 Annual company retreat
What is our recruitment process?
Inclusiveness is at the heart of everything we do at GOURMEY. By being transparent about each step of the process, and why we do things the way we do, we believe we can give all candidates a foretaste of GOURMEY’s culture. During the process, you will meet some of your team members in different parts of the recruitment process which will look like this:
- Interviews with our Recruiting team, future colleagues, and manager.
Want to know more about us?
We are a science, purpose, and engineering-driven company, founded in 2019 and now entering its next phase of growth after our recent fundraising.
We are dedicated to creating breakthrough technologies that will help address and push the boundaries of what’s possible – delivering innovations that benefit people and the planet. If you want to know more, have a look at our LinkedIn page, Career Site, Glassdoor reviews as well as the many press reviews (Bloomberg; Forbes).
About Gourmey
We believe in a world where spectacle and succulence share a table with sustainability and a positive impact. So we’re reimagining meat production to spare land and resources without sacrificing flavour. We’re pioneering a new food landscape where succulence meets sustainability.
GOURMEY is France's pioneering cultivated meat company. 🌎 We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
Join us: Join.gourmey.com
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
An introductory call with our Talent Acquisition Manager
Stage 2:
Meet your future manager! 🤩
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