Today TGBL, renamed to Tata Consumer Products, is home to well-loved brands – Tata Tea, Tetley, Tata Salt, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Himalayan Water and emerging brands like Tata Sampann, Tata Soulfull, Tata Gluco Plus and Tata Water Plus.
Our offerings are rooted in the core Tata values of responsibility and welfare of the community. Our brands are present in over 40 countries with a diverse workforce spread across the world.
As Tata Consumer, we aim to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and innovative products, that will delight consumers and create lasting value for all our stakeholders.
{Associate Manager – Internal Audit Food Safety and Quality Assurance}
- Date: 8 Jan 2026
- Location: Bangalore, KA, IN, 560024
- Company: Tata Consumer Products Limited
- Function: Internal Audit & ERM
Job Description:
What are the Key Deliverables in this role?
Overview: Manager – Internal Audit is responsible for executing internal audits across various business functions, identifying
process and control gaps and implementing risk mitigation strategies. This role involves working closely with quality and R&D teams, driving process improvements, and developing risk analytics to enhance business efficiency particularly in Quality domain.
Financial Outcomes
- Execute internal audits for Quality and R&D functions, ensuring process maturity and risk mitigation
- Identify control weaknesses, document findings with evidence, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Develop risk analytics and dashboards to enhance control mechanisms focused on quality controls
- Support special assignments and investigations to strengthen controls and improve processes.
Customer Service:
- Proactively identify and highlight challenges and conflicts during audits execution.
- Engage with low to middle management for aligning the audit observations, taking their inputs to enhance correctness and quality of observation.
- Provide industry-based insights to the stakeholders during the discussion for better clarity on process gaps, observations, issues etc.
Internal Process:
- Draft quality reports with clear recommendations, specific action plans, and concise reporting.
- Work alongside with co-sourcing and in-house teams to deliver the engagement.
- Embed audit inputs from CIA and audit lead, ensure comprehensive audit coverage, robust test procedures, and quality observations.
- Ensure audit progress in line with agreed scope document to execution and provide regular updates.
- Proactively highlight challenges for timely audit completion in line with agreed timelines.
- Propose practical and value-added recommendations to address control weaknesses and/or process inefficiencies.
- Ensure factual accuracy of observations and alignments with business.
- Plan and conduct meetings with auditee at the end of fieldwork, providing clear explanations.
- Assist in benchmarking processes with peer FMCG companies to identify improvement areas and best practices.
Innovation and Learning:
- Attend the training suggested by the audit leads and focus on professional development agenda.
- Collaborate with other audit leads to share best practices and improve audit quality.
- Foster a culture of training to enhance knowledge on covered domains and risk factors.
- Support on business case building for new products, new pricing, grammage reduction
What are the Critical success factors for the Role?
- Minimum 6 Years of relevant experience in FMCG Industry
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, Food Safety, Microbiology, Quality Assurance, or related field.
- SAP working knowledge, Advanced certifications in food safety, quality auditing, or regulatory compliance (e.g., Certified Professional in Food Safety, ISO Lead Auditor).
- Expertise in conducting audits, assessing compliance, and implementing corrective actions.
- In-depth knowledge of food safety principles, HACCP, GMPs, relevant ISO standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FSSAI, Legal Metrology, USFDA).
- Familiarity with industry guidelines such as BRC, SQF, or FSSC 22000 is advantageous.
- Ability to adapt to changing regulatory requirements and industry practices.
- Individual Contributor, ability to take initiative and drive projects
- Strong Communication & Influencing Skills
What are the Desirable success factors for the Role ?
- Awareness and knowledge about FMCG industry and best practices across business process areas
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