Senior Supply Chain Quality Control Manager - Outbased

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Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

The Senior supply chain Quality control manager is responsible for overseeing the Quality Control and Food Safety agenda across all PepsiCo-owned and third-party manufacturing sites within the Business Unit (BU). This position supports BU E2E SC Leaders in delivering business plans and ensures the delivery of top-quality products to regional markets, delighting customers and consumers.

This Is a homebased contract with travel required 50% of the time across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Lead site teams in the BU to support the delivery of top-quality products to regional markets.
• Standardization: Roll out the implementation and standardization of global and sector Quality and Food Safety systems, processes, and procedures across PepsiCo and third-party sites.
• Capability Building: Build QFS functional capability and competency at all sites in the BU through appropriate programs (Quality University / SC College).
• KPI Execution: Lead QCFS E2E agenda and KPI execution by site teams across all PepsiCo and third-party sites
• LEAN Approach: Adopt LEAN (smart compliance) approach at PepsiCo and third-party plants, implementing standardized QFS processes and tasks to enhance productivity in QCFS day-to-day performance.
• Analytical Excellence: Ensure analytical excellence across the BU by implementing standard laboratory platforms (lab software, lab equipment, consumables, chemicals, methods, and testing programs), contributing to Manufacturing over heads and Cost per unit reduction.

Projects:

• Provide QCFS support and guidance to Growth, Productivity, and Innovation projects in the BU, ensuring full QFS compliance of the product and processes affected.

Incident Management:

• Be a member of the BU Incident Management team.
• Provide oversight of product incident management procedures, contributing to formal risk assessments, root cause analyses, and clear recommendations for in-market actions to BU General Managers.

Financial Management:

• Manage personal travel and expenses budget totaling $10 million.

Non-Financial Management:

• Develop QFS functional capability and leadership competency of Site QC managers, creating a strong team of professionals supporting E2E SC business performance.
• Collaborate with QC&FS E2E Region Lead to deploy and execute Global FSQA standards and statutory regulations across BU sites.
• Establish appropriate wiring/networking with all support functions to facilitate smooth delivery of objectives.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification food, chemistry, engineering.
• Previous experience in a site QC / FS leadership role in the food industry.
• Cross-category experience advantageous.
• Strong communication / presentation skills - ability to explain technical issues / solutions to a non-technical audience.
• Must be willing to travel locally.
• High degree of functional competence, technical understanding and knowledge of QC&FS processes.
• Recognized as local Quality Leader / Expert.
• Strong networker beyond functional limits and able to represent PepsiCo externally (with Co-man and Franchise technical managers).
• Strong analytical skills - ability to interpret complex data and distill into useful and actionable information.
• Results oriented.
• Self-starter, self-motivated - drive for results and able to deal with uncertainty.
• Familiar with Continuous Improvement Tools and Methods.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We're also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That's why we've empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG's) ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

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