QA Business Integration & Optimization Manager (m/f/d)

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QA Business Integration & Optimization Manager (m/f/d)

Job ID: 108446/ Location: Trier / Start: as soon as possible / Contract type: permanent

Ready to shape how quality is embedded in strategic initiatives and new business opportunities? Join our Quality Assurance team at the Trier site as a QA Business Integration & Optimization Manager (m/f/d) in a permanent position and help turn complex business needs into robust, future-ready quality solutions.

Your job mission:

In this high-impact role, you will bring Quality Assurance to the heart of strategic corporate and new business development initiatives. As the key QA partner, you will connect business ambitions with clear quality requirements, bring internal and external stakeholders together, and steer QA workstreams from concept to successful implementation. Your work will strengthen quality governance, enable sustainable improvements and help ensure that consumers can rely on the high quality of JTI products.

Who are we?

JTI is a leading international tobacco company with locations in more than 130 countries and world-famous brands such as Winston, Camel and American Spirit. With our brands Nordic Spirit, Logic and Ploom, we also focus on growth through innovations in the field of reduced risk products. In Germany, we are the largest employer in our industry with over 2,000 employees.

As a multiple award-winning top employer, we offer an open and inclusive working environment with exciting tasks in a challenging environment. Flexible working concepts, diverse development opportunities and international career paths are part of our everyday life. Visit us at www.jti.com to find out more about JTI and what it's like to work for us.

Your tasks:

• Shape quality from the start: Translate strategic ambitions into clear, actionable QA deliverables for corporate and new business development initiatives

• Build strong quality frameworks: Develop quality agreements, contracts and corporate procedures that create clarity and consistency across partnerships and projects

• Connect people and perspectives: Lead the definition of requirements and deliverables and serve as the trusted QA contact for internal stakeholders and external business partners

• Drive projects to successful delivery: Keep QA workstreams on track, anticipate risks, initiate timely escalation and help secure the right resources across QA teams

• Turn insights into improvement: Confirm that solutions meet agreed requirements and use reviews and audits to identify opportunities for continuous improvement

• Create transparency and lasting knowledge: Build robust project documentation and prepare focused updates and meetings for QA stakeholders, senior management and external customers

Your profile:

• Your academic foundation: A university degree in a scientific, technical or business discipline—ideally chemical, physical or environmental engineering, food technology or business management

• Your quality expertise: At least five years of professional experience in quality management, ideally gained in the tobacco industry or another regulated environment such as pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements or medical devices

• Your project experience: A strong track record of leading or contributing to complex, cross-functional projects; exposure to global functions, markets or a US FDA-regulated environment would be a welcome advantage

• Your way of working: A structured, hands-on approach, sound quality and project management expertise, and confidence using MS Office—particularly Excel and PowerPoint

• Your collaborative mindset: The ability to build trusted relationships, communicate clearly with different audiences and stay organized and adaptable in a dynamic environment

• Your language skills: Advanced written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage

Your benefits:

• Your team: You will work in an open and international working environment with approx. 60 nations at the Trier site.

• Your remuneration: Above-average pay, 13th and 14th monthly salary as well as an annual company bonus. Individual company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits.

• Your meals: Our subsidized company canteen and numerous snack and coffee vending machines ensure your physical well-being.

• Your appreciation: You will receive regular feedback from us and, as your personal safety is important to us, we also protect you in your private life with our JTI accident insurance.

• Your work-life balance: You should enjoy your work! That's why we offer you 30 days of vacation for personal relaxation.

• Your mobility offer: With our BusinessBike program, we offer you the opportunity to lease the bike of your choice at attractive conditions as part of a permanent position. This is an uncomplicated and flexible way to promote your health.

• Your development: We focus on your personal development. We support you with a wide range of internal training courses as well as external training and development opportunities that are tailored specifically to you.

Have we aroused your interest?

Apply directly with your complete application documents (CV, cover letter & references) stating your earliest possible starting date (Job ID 108446).

Diversity & Inclusion

We want everyone at JTI to be themselves and develop their full potential, because each and every one of us makes a valuable contribution to the success of the company and the location in Germany. We live and promote diversity, equality and inclusion accordingly. We have local employee groups and networks, such as the PRIDE Chapter Germany or the togetHER network for female employees, in which committed colleagues are involved, and we support a wide range of projects in our local area. For this and many other activities in the area of diversity & inclusion, we have already been awarded the Global Equality Standard by Ernst & Young.

Sustainability & Commitment

We have particularly close ties to the Trier region and the greater Cologne area through our two locations and want to make a significant contribution to a high quality of life, e.g., through annual clean-up campaigns on the Rhine and Moselle and as a long-standing partner of the Cologne Green Foundation, we are committed to the preservation and expansion of the city's green spaces. Renewable energies are also part of our sustainability goals, which is why we are investing in the expansion of the Bescheid Süd wind farm, located 20 kilometers east of our Trier site, in order to secure green electricity for the region and for our production at the Trier plant. We are constantly reducing the amount of plastic used in the packaging of our classic tobacco products, thus saving tons of plastic waste.

Find out more about us at: https://www.jti.com/de/europe/germany/top-arbeitgeber

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Next Steps:

After applying, if selected, please anticipate the following within 1-3 weeks of the job posting closure: Phone screening with Talent Advisor > Assessment tests > Interviews > Offer. Each step is eliminatory and may vary by role type.