Food safety and Quality Assurance Manager

Overview
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quality and are respected household names such as Quaker Oats, Tropicana,
Gatorade, Lay's and Pepsi-Cola, we are committed to Performance with Purpose;
pushing to be best and fully committed to the people we share the planet
with.
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in the world for leadership development.
Lead the regional Food safety and Quality Assurance function by ensuring
a) Food safety and Quality by design for all new innovations or
productivity initiatives, while delivering the right specifications that are
fit for purpose and consumer relevant
b) This role will need to create culture and establish comprehensive and
sustainable Food safety and quality programs that drive capability and quality
throughout the supply chain.
c) To create, implement and monitor necessary quality and food safety
metrics in order to provide needed oversight and governance
d) Managing suppliers for Pepsico Manufacturing locations for all
categories across MENA BU for existing products and new suppliers approvals
for Innovation, BCP and Productivity initiatives. SPM initiatives for existing
suppliers.
e) Support the PEP+ agenda
Responsibilities
* Drive QA programs in the Middle east region to effectively deliver the aligned AOP Agenda and Long term strategic inititaives.
* Effectively support the regional product and package innovation agenda by ensuring standards and process are adhered to during the innovation process, delivering "quality and food safety by design"
* Participate in local innovation councils/stage gate ensuring quality and food safety guardrails have been addressed in the stage gate process
* For complex innovations, provide needed technical support at plant level to ensure start-up readiness and develop quality system and testing protocols/methods which should be applied for new product introductions
* Provide needed oversight and governance by ensuring our quality and food safety standards and protocols are effectively implemented in the manufacturing facilities, and that they are maintained across the supply chain to ensure our products are safe, legal and meet consumer-defined design across our total portfolio of products
* Effectively collaborate with regional Quality Control (SC) to jointly develop Quality and Food Safety objectives and targets that deliver on our promise to provide consumers with safe and wholesome products of outstanding quality, consistency and value
* Harmonize the quality management programs including testing methods across the region, as needed
* Provide needed oversight and governance of established quality systems, managing the issuance of variances to specifications and standards, ensuring needed corrective actions to non-compliances in quality and food safety audits have been implemented, and that the systems and processes that are in place are being adhered to by product developers and SC (QC)
* Provide technical support in the assessment of new contract manufacturing sites, performing needed
* Capability assessment for new manufacturing platforms and ensuring appropriate design quality and food safety principles have been implemented
* Approve new suppliers to support Innovation , Productivity and Strategic Supplier agenda
* Management of existing suppliers and ensuring compliance to Global Standards .
* Advocate execution of global programs and drive role of Quality connector to Business Unit and Global
Qualifications
* Minimum of ‎8-‎10 years of experience in Food safety, Quality Assurance, Quality Control (and/or related experience with a proven track record or technical role
* Strong orientation of PepsiCo Quality & Food safety systems & processes direct or indirect handling