Overview
PepsiCo is looking for R&D Supervisor - Ingridient Spec Writer Lead to be based in one of our locations: Leicester, UK or Istanbul, Turkey.
Job Purpose
This role primary responsibility is to supervise a team of 6 specification writers to update/create Europe Foods specifications to ensure legal compliance both through deploying required regulatory updates & updating data at required cadence.
Responsibilities
* The role involves contributing to a highly complex change programme whilst ensuring legal compliance across Europe Foods technical data & systems
* Scope, align & deliver portfolio of assigned specification through individual contribution & delivery through others
* Ensure specification activities are progressing in line with business priorities and facilitate removal of road blocks as required
* Apply & ensure the team comply with regulatory & legal requirements through collaboration with regulatory teams
* Enable safe and compliant development through ensuring ingredient standard requirements are effectively deployed across Europe
* Ensure resourcing needs specific to ingredient activities are captured for all projects across Sector
* Work effectively within regional and global cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong functional expertise to overcome barriers and deliver initiatives with excellence
* Contribute to workstreams to improve ways of working across the team e.g. improvement of business processes to drive greater efficiencies, sharing of knowledge to create better team cohesion & developing others through coaching & embedding best practise
Qualifications
* Graduate in Food, Science or Engineering discipline or equivalent (engineering for process roles) or equivalent in experience
* Solid FMCG background to support understanding of system requirements & change implications
* Ability to define and execute a programme of projects consistent with key business drivers
* Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence with integrity through persuasive communication to win support at senior levels within the organisation
* Proven programme management skills to effectively drive multiple projects
* Excellent people management skills to continue team members further upscaling and development
* Cross departmental & functional leadership (technical & commercial) providing clarity on workstream objectives & deliverable co-ordination
* Management of full project life cycle from concept to industrial production, delivering through others to deliver technical components of cross-functional projects
* Experience of working across multiple markets & on global brands
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