Head of Quality (f/m/d)

Let’s make the world a better place one tasty bite at a time.

Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on delicious taste, meaty and juicy texture, while only using clean ingredients. Planted is setting a completely new standard in the plant-based meat category, making it a healthy, delicious and sustainable choice for all. Truly better than meat from animals.

Our growth is driven by a hunger to create a sustainable, healthy, and compassionate future for all – consumers, planet and animals. We are more than a delicious product; we are a mindset. Sustainability, health, and animal welfare are at the core of our identity. We never compromise on quality and our only natural ingredients, ensuring trust with our consumers as well as partners through our commitment to excellence.

Your Mission:

You lead and develop Planted’s mission-driven Quality team, covering all aspects of food quality and regulatory compliance

You ensure consistent product quality and safety at our sites in Kemptthal and Memmingen, as well as at suppliers and co-manufacturers, in line with Planted standards, IFS, and legal requirements

You strengthen the quality culture across the organization

You expand and optimize the quality management system to meet the needs of our growing product portfolio, technologies, markets, and customer base

You ensure that all quality standards, control systems, and certifications support current and future market and customer requirements

You implement scalable processes and ways of working within the Quality team and across functions like Operations, R&D, Commercial, customers, and suppliers

You take ownership of quality across all production sites, including managing customer, authority, and certification audits, as well as audits at external partners

You lead the organization through quality issues or crises, including heading the crisis team

You actively participate in or oversee key Quality working groups such as HACCP, Food Defense, and Food Fraud

You:

Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in food sciences or a related field

Bring 5+ years of experience in quality roles within food production, including proven leadership experience

Possess in-depth expertise in quality assurance, management, and control—covering crisis management and communication

Are a team player, responsibility taker & flexible with a “hands-on” approach

Decide quickly and effectively using a risk-based approach, communicating clearly even under pressure

Think entrepreneurially and are eager to help shape and scale an ambitious company

Are willing to travel regularly between Kemptthal and Memmingen

Communicate fluently in both German and English

Bring experience with quality in animal or plant-based meat products—an advantage

We support your personnel growth and development with internal or external trainings to unlock your full potential.

Wellbeing

Enjoy 2kg Planted meat each month, discounted gym access in Kemptthal, free psychological counselling and other benefits like a lunch allowance to help you thrive every day.

Culture

Join a purpose-driven workplace with regular team events like weekly afterworks and a supportive environment that values autonomy and individual responsibility.

Balance

Enjoy flexible working conditions, 25 vacation days + your birthday off, opportunities to work abroad and contributions for public transport and your mobile phone.

Care

We offer private accident insurance, a pension plan with two-thirds employer contribution, fully insured salaries for all workloads, and parental leave benefits growing with tenure, up to 4 extra weeks.