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Responsibilities
- As a Food Safety Associate, the role will ensure that the Quality and Food Safety aspects of legacy specification update is reviewed and approved.
- Support new ingredient specification development to ensure they comply with the standards and requirements from a Quality and Food safety standpoint.
- Quality and Food Safety Discipline Approver for ingredient Specifications.
- Learn, understand and uphold the PepsiCo Global Ingredient Standard and Supplier Standard, and become proficient in the PepsiCo systems/IT Applications associated to spec writing.
- Conduct gap analysis of legacy specifications against PepsiCo Global Ingredient Standards. Drive gap closure with/through function team members.
- Support the Specification Writer on providing guidance to supplier in completing the Quality and Food Safety requirements of the specification in the following key areas:
- Ingredient Composition
- All Chemical, physical and other parameter requirement.
- Claims/Compliance related with QA/FS
- Food Safety Requirements
- Allergen
- Test method and limit of FS and Performance parameters
- Ingredient Micro sensitive assessment.
- Other Spec General information
- Review the Quality and Food safety information and requirements for the ingredients to ensure they are met, identify gaps and request further information and connect with Specification Writer to resolve this with the supplier and work with Functional SMEs (Quality and Food Safety) as needed for guidance and escalation.
- Validate correct migration of data to the Specification system, includes review of the Quality and Food Safety information and supporting documents/evidence collected from the supplier.
Qualifications
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of Quality Assurance/ Food Safety concepts and good working knowledge of food microbiology, food allergens, physical and chemical hazards
- 3-5 years of experience on Food and beverage Product Development, QA/QC, Food Analytical experience or other Food related FMCG in a technical role. Specification writing experience is an advantage.
- Well-versed on Microsoft Office Suite.
- Confident and able to speak or present to senior leaders when needed.
- High Learning agility, self-motivated and has desire for continuous self-improvement.
- Team player and works well with cross-functional, cross-regional and cross-cultural teams.
- Can work independently and has initiative for problem solving.
**“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”