Nozizwe Nashwa

Quality Management professional with successful career delivering efficiency and standardization; experienced in developing organization's quality strategy, procedures and processes. Monitor quality performance from supply chain and throughout product development life cycle. Develop and maintain Quality Management System in accordance with requirements of FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, SANAS, NRCS, HALAAL, KOSHER and other applicable standards and business requirements. Manage quality audit program to identify and resolve non-conformities and embed culture of continuous improvement through the use of TPM tools as well as other problem solving tools. Apply creativity in improving manufacturing process to achieve higher productivity and quality of finished goods.

Organized and analytical with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Results focused, insightful, integrity, collaboration and open to new ideas.

• 2022: Received recognition from Colgate-Palmolive Team Leader for "Teamwork & Collaboration": Provided training and coaching to shop-floor operators and engineering on Quality Defects
• 2019: Received recognition from the ESAR region Senior leaders i.e CEO, Nestle Nutrition Business Manager, Technical Director and Harrismith Factory Manager for “Reduction of Foreign Body complaints by 40%”
• 2019: Received recognition from the ESAR Technical leaders for “Collaboration, Make a difference, Lead to win, Manage for results”: Helping the factory achieve 600 tonnes per week
• 2019: Received recognition from the Nestle Nutrition Business Manager of Nestlé ESAR region for “Collaboration, making a difference, manage for results”: Collaborated with Procurement team in a contingency project to source Microbiologically compliant Skim Milk Powder raw material in order to avoid an out of stock situation of finished goods, thus avoiding a major business impact in selling markets.
• 2019: Received a certificate of appreciation from the ESAR region Quality Manager, Babelegi Factory Manager and Performance Acceleration Leader for “Contribution during Quality Acceleration week at Nestle Babelegi factory”
• 2018: Received recognition from the CEO of Nestlé ESAR region for "Collaboration through delivered results": Collaborated with Marketing team to launch new product categories (Stage 4) for Infant Nutrition in order to gain market penetration through advertising. The new products were successfully launched in record time.
• 2011: Received recognition from Harrismith Factory Manager for "Displaying exceptional innovative mind set"

Additional Trainings:

Leadership Trainings

● 8 Pillars of effectiveness (PMI) ● Emotional intelligence (PMI) ● Coaching methodology (Nestle) ● Disabled employees in the workplace (PMI) ● Unconscious biasness (PMI)

Functional Trainings

● FSSC 22000 (Progress Excellence) ● ISO 9001 (Progress Excellence) ● ISO 14001 (SGS) ● Internal Auditing of Management Systems (Progress Excellence) ● Train the trainer (PMI) ● Quality Management Systems (Nestle) ● Net content control (Nestle) ● Statistical Process Control (Nestle) ● Crisis and incident management (Nestle) ● HACCP Level B (Nestle) ● Introduction to TPM (Nestle) ● TPM Quality Pillar Leaders (Nestle) ● Good Laboratory Practices (Nestle) ● Packaging techniques and analysis (Nestle) ● Sensory techniques and Specifications (Nestle) ● Tetra Pak Aseptic Quality (Tetra Pak) ● Management for Junior Managers (PMI)

REFFERENCES

1. Godfrey Masoetsa - "Nestlé South Africa " Nestlé Quality Assurance Centre Lab Manager +27 72 800 7296 godfrey.masoetsa@za.nestle.com

2. Raymond Magagula - "Discovery " Business Development Manager +27 82 764 8892 raymondmagagula@discovery.bank