R&D Product Manager

Overview

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT

At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

Responsibilities

The Opportunity

Lead and ensure development and execution of the Extrusion/CC/Pellet/Pork categories under Innovation, Portfolio Transformation, Brand Maintenance and Productivity pillars, as well as managing the Pilot Plant in Tech Center R&D site, while coaching and developing team members building on their professional and personal growth.

Your Impact

As R&D Product Manager your scope would consist of …

• Product Development: Deliver product innovation with robust design according to consumer needs. Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, executing action plans, providing information and assessing risks. Impacted groups: R&D, Innov Comm, Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Procurement, Engineering
  Collaborate in the setting of product Innovation agenda in AOP and SDD:
• Participate in the creation and delivering of feasibility, risks assessment, technology options and product proposals. Main accountabilities are making decisions, providing information and assessing risks. Interaction with: R&D, Innov Comm, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Finance
• Productivity: Deliver ideas and poposals, development and execute projects to reduce costs, improve processes, alternate ingredients/suppliers. Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, providing information, assessing risks and executing action plans. Impacted groups: R&D, Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Finances, Procurement
• Brand Stewardship: Guarantee product design through different tools and programs (consumer testing, reformulations, new suppliers and ingrdient validations, business continuity, CQA program, etc).
• Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, providing information, assessing risks and executing action plans. Impacted groups: R&D, Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Finances, Procurement
• Project Management: Coordinate project activites, resources (people and budget) and timing to ensure all initiatives are on time and with all technical deliverables (manuals, specifications, mass balances, etc) in place and well documented (through TSG tool).
• Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, executing action plans, providing information and assessing risks. Impacted groups: R&D, Innov Comm, Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Procurement
• Portfolio Transformation: Lead, develop and execute re-formulation product initiatives to comply with internal or external guidelines/regulations, ensuring product design and compliance. Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, executing actions, providing information and assessing risks. Impacted groups: R&D, Innov Comm, Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Procurement
• Pilot Plant Management: Lead the management of Pilot Plant in Tech Center, ensuring deliverables and functionality through supporting platforms/categories agenda and a maintenance and improvement plans.
• Main accountabilities are leading, making decisions, executing action plans, providing information and assessing risks. Impacted groups: R&D, Finance, Procurement, Engineering
• People guidance and growth: Impulse team growth and develop people performance skills to their career development. Main accountabilities are making decisions, providing information & feedback and executing action plans. Impacted groups: R&D
• Coordinate Multidisciplinary teams: Close and robust leading of support teams to comply with projects execution. Main accountabilities are making decisions, providing information and executing action plans.
• Impacted groups: R&D, Marketing, Operations
  Support other regions with product/ process information
  Know the competitive environment of the snacks category to generate attractive proposals according to global or local trends as well as competitors monitoring to create/execute improvement actions

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?

• Food Engineering/ Food Chemistry/ Food Technology/ Process
• Engineering bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 5 years in Research and Development (food industry)
• Functional knowledge on technologies snacks (salty/ confectionary)
• technologies (TC, PC, Extrusion, Pellet, Popcorn, N&S or similar)
• Multidiciplinary teams management
• Solid manufacturing processes knowledge
• Product development experience of at least 5 years
• Advanced English language communication skills
• Results driven
• Consumer/clients oriented
• People development oriented
• Work under pressure
• Solid skills on Leadership, Negotiation, Effective Communication,
• Networking,
• Self driven
• Creativity
• Data analysis
• Team work

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.
• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.
• Development programs according to Leadership skills.
• Specialized training according to the role.
• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.
• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.
• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.
• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.