Requisition ID: 54586
Position Type: FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About The Role
Business partnering & strategy focus in a specific EUM/Technology to support delivery of our business strategy & growth plans. Support the embedding of the regulatory operating model and support our GBS fulfilment colleagues on Customer queries
Commercialising compliant NPI products.
Proactive Customer engagement for priority customers. Support the participation in trade association activities where applicable, to proactively engage on policy discussions, understand new regulation to enable the business to have a competitive advantage in the marketplace
Key responsibilities
Innovation & Ideation
Participate as a proactive partner as a team member of project/development teams and provide regulatory expertise and advisement on ingredients (are they approved for use in application), on claims, and certifications throughout the development process. Provide regulatory information for new development and innovation. Provide regulatory interpretation and regulatory advice to internal stakeholders and customers
Internal stakeholders
Manage emerging issues & first escalations, be the point of contact to internal stakeholders as required.
RSA and GBS work closely together to provide a seamless, fast, and consistent response to request. EUM managers in RSA and GBS have regular meetings for customer needs
GBS is incorporated into appropriate regional all-staff meetings to stay informed of RSA and updates to business will be provided as needed through interactions outlined in deliverables
Be the in region support for your colleagues in Global Business Services(GBS) ensuring that the GBS team are invited to relevant meetings and are kept informed of relevant in region updates that may have an impact on their role
Training and onboarding partner of Regulatory colleagues & other functions as required
Commercialisations & Labelling
Reviews the commercialisation process, for all relevant labelling and formatting compliance. Performs same comprehensive review and approvals required for formula changes through Kerry internal process.
Customer/ external engagement
Working closely with the senior R&SA scientist to ensure they are up to date with the latest development of relevant industry regulations and regulatory trends across the region and share with relevant stakeholders.
Support the participation in trade association were applicable
Proactively business partnering with EUM on specific customer opportunities, strategic customer engagements including customer presentations
Crisis Management & Plant Support were applicable
Prepares external certification requests as outlined at project brief and leads the cross-functional substantiation and documentation of all claims in accordance with current country regulations.
Completion of key strategic customer documentation that are retained under Regional remit, according to business strategic plans
Qualifications And Skills
Relevant degree in a Scientific/Technical field (or equivalent experience)
1-5 years' experience
Food and beverage industry experience ideally, in regulatory, QA or RD&A
Ability to work accurately and quickly in a fast-paced environment
Ability to work on your own initiative and pay attention to detail
Excellent communication skills
Self-motivated and with the ability to work well within a team
Flexibility & Agility to meet business requirements
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
Recruiter
Posting Type: LI
Please note: We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers. In the event that speculative CVs or candidate profiles are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current or future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency.