About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
PepsiCo generated $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker and SodaStream.
Location
Hyderabad, India
Job Title
R&D Food Safety Reviewer
Job Description
- This role will initially support the FSQA team to ensure required food safety & quality assurance expertise is provided in support of R&D specification updates and new specifications.
- This role will apply technical expertise and coordinate with cross-functional discipline approvers and ensure fit-for-purpose ingredient specifications, maintain existing specifications and manage tracking.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in food science, Food Chemistry, Microbiology, or equivalent relevant experience required.
Experience
4 -5 years of working experience as a food safety and /or quality professional with a CPG/FMCG industry.
Functional Responsibilities
- Conduct food safety and quality assessments of FSQA information received from suppliers/SWs and add required parameters in consultation with region SMEs to the AOP Food ingredients specifications.
- Serve as point of contact with GCC Specification team on food safety and quality discussions during supplier alignment process.
- Maintain and foster relationships with ICC Spec teams, other in-market stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Review supplier questionnaire related to ingredients approvals, communicate Food Safety & Quality specific documentation to AOP Specification team to address any outstanding questions.
- Review FGE, Formula & Ingredient specifications in SAP.
- Review and update existing specs to ensure compliance with PepsiCo Food Safety & Quality Standards, using PepsiCo tools.
- Ensure all requests are processed, documented, and delivered within a defined project timeline.
- Identify potential areas for process improvements to make recommendations to R&D GCC & AMESA FSQA team for continuous improvement.
Required Skills
- Understanding of Quality Assurance/ Food Safety concepts and good working knowledge of food microbiology, food allergens, physical and chemical hazards.
- Understanding of food legislations.
- Understanding of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and have adequate certification, as a minimum L2.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to rapidly learn computer applications/programs & navigate systems.
- Collaborative skills and strong interest in working with others across time zones; Ability to build relationships and work closely with both internal and external partners.
- Good communication skills – oral and written (e.g. communication on telephone, external and internal to PepsiCo, managing with other support group functions, etc.)
- Ability to manage time effectively across multiple priorities and projects requiring a high degree of organizational and communication skills to ensure requests are delivered in a timely manner.
- Exceptional data organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and accuracy
- Self-motivated & demonstrated ability to take initiative on projects.
- Fluent in English
Date : 16th November 2024
Time : 10:00 AM – 05:00 PM
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