Quality & Certification Advisor - APAC

Quality & Certification Advisor

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About Azelis Australia

Azelis Australia is a business with a strong local footprint backed by a global network in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry. The company operates across multiple market segments, with offices, blending facilities and warehouses in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and serves more than 1,200 customers with a team of over 60 employees.

Azelis employs more than 4,100 people across 64 countries. The company is a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemical and food ingredients industry, present in 63 countries across the globe with over 3,800 employees. Azelis offers a lateral value chain of complementary products to more than 59,000 customers, supported by +2,700 principal relationships, creating a turnover of €4.1 billion (2022). Azelis Group NV is listed on Euronext Brussels under ticker AZE.

The company operates more than 60 application laboratories with award-winning staff who help develop formulations and provide technical guidance throughout customers' product development processes.

Culture and Values

Azelis promotes a strong employee value proposition centred on career growth, professional development, equal opportunity, employee voice and competitive remuneration. The company highlights a culture built on:

• Being innovative and resourceful
• Agile and empowered
• Collaborative and respectful
• Transparent and results oriented

About the Role

We are currently seeking a Quality & Certification Advisor to join our Melbourne team. In this role, you will support the day-to-day execution of quality, certification and compliance activities across Australia, helping ensure strong data integrity, documentation discipline, audit readiness and timely stakeholder support. This is an excellent opportunity for a quality professional who enjoys working in a structured, regulated and fast-paced environment while contributing to continuous improvement across the business.

Responsibilities

You will support a broad range of operational quality and certification activities, including:

• Executing daily Quality & Certification tasks in line with defined controls, templates and work instructions
• Maintaining accurate records, approvals and supporting evidence to ensure traceability and compliance
• Supporting review and maintenance of quality and certification records, including corrective updates
• Assisting with internal change control processes, mock recall activities and quality disposition tasks
• Supporting supplier documentation checks, including Certificate of Analysis (CoA) verification
• Assisting with product and manufacturer risk analysis activities and maintaining supporting records
• Supporting product stewardship and regulatory activities, including submissions, notifications and registrations
• Assisting with restricted/controlled product and embargo screening activities where applicable
• Maintaining product documentation, label-related data and compliance records across systems and repositories
• Supporting certification schemes such as organic, kosher and sustainability/RSPO, including audit readiness activities
• Updating KPI inputs, dashboards and reporting artefacts
• Responding to routine stakeholder queries and escalating more complex matters where required
• Contributing to investigations, root cause analysis and process improvement initiatives

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will ideally bring:

• A Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Science, Food Science/Food Technology or a related discipline
• 3–5 years' experience in Quality & Certification, Product Stewardship, Regulatory Affairs or a similar support/execution role
• Experience working in a regulated, audit-driven environment
• Practical understanding of quality management systems, including document control, non-conformance handling, CAPA awareness and change control
• Awareness of ISO 9001 and/or ISO 22000 certification readiness practices
• Strong attention to detail with a disciplined approach to data integrity and record keeping
• Excellent organisation, prioritisation and communication skills
• A service-oriented mindset with the ability to work effectively across stakeholders
• Confidence using enterprise systems and digital tools; exposure to D365, HSE tools, Power BI or document repositories will be highly regarded

Why Join Azelis?

Azelis invests in personal and professional development, talent mobility, and diversity and inclusion, with the ambition to be an employer of choice in its industry.

Sustainability is a key part of the wider Azelis proposition. Through its Impact 2030 programme, Azelis has committed to measurable progress across portfolio, environment, people and governance, embedding sustainability into how it operates and supports customers and principals.

Top industry-rated by Sustainalytics, Azelis is a leader in sustainability.

Equal Opportunities

Azelis Americas is an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Azelis Americas is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact human.resources@azelis.com.