Senior Manager, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs

Are you an expert in scientific and regulatory affairs with a strong advocacy mindset and robust experience within the food industry?

We're looking for a proactive professional who is not only abreast of the constantly evolving regulatory landscape but is also adept at identifying potential risks and opportunities. If this sounds like you, this role could be your next big move.

As the key advocate for the Scientific and Regulatory Affairs area, your role would involve implementing globally aligned advocacy strategies to minimize risks and confront challenges potentially affecting our ingredients, products, packaging, claims, etc.

**What You’ll Do for Us**
- Provide regulatory affairs expertise and guidance to the system to identify solutions to regulatory issues that affect our products or ingredients.
- Lead and engage in industry/trade associations and food standards bodies.
- Represent the Company and provide leadership to external stakeholders such as global food and beverage industry groups.
- Maintain, enhance and develop relationships/networks with external experts and other stakeholders on issues relating to food safety, nutrition and health.
- Identify potential regulatory risks and opportunities and ensure tracking of local, regional and global regulatory issues and emerging trends.
- Partner with brand team, R&D, and legal in development of claims and communications that are truthful, scientifically substantiated and translated into consumer language.

**Qualifications & Requirements**
- 7-10Years in food industry.
- Demonstrated advocacy experience and leadership roles in related external organizations/committees/boards.

**Functional Skills & Technical Competencies**:

- Regulatory Landscape: Knowledge of the regulatory and political landscape affecting food and beverages in Latin America. It also includes the ability to manage complex regulatory issues affecting products, ingredients, packages or claims.
- Compliance: knowledge of related compliance type process related to ingredients, products, packaging, claims and communication.
- Food Safety/Toxicology: Basic understanding of the nature, properties, effects, and detection of toxic substances in food, and their disease manifestation particularly chemicals of food interest such as food additives and pesticides, and how they are tested and regulated.
- Nutrition Science: Understanding of nutrition science including how dietary patterns influence health and well-being, biological mechanisms through which nutrients affect metabolism, dietary patterns, activity levels and related medical conditions particularly obesity and NCDs.

**Skills**:

- Building Value Based Relationships: Ability to generate alliances internally and externally by continuously identifying and acting on those things that will create success for the Company and its customers, bottlers, suppliers and communities.
- Drives cross-discipline collaboration and teamwork: Applies understanding of scientific & regulatory processes, including internal and external relationships to advance to advance achievement of company’s and technical organization’s priorities. Demonstrated ability to establish and nurture productive cross-functional and internal and external stakeholder collaborations.
- Communication Focus: Proactively inform country and operating unit about scientific and regulatory emerging issues to increase their understanding of issues and formulate plan of action.

**What We Can Do For You**
- **Purpose Driven**: Purpose-driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products**.**:

- **Global Connections**:Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
- **Community of Belonging**:We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.

**Skills**

Leadership; Public Advocacy; Nutritional Science; Innovation; organization; Science Advocacy; Project Management; Food Sciences; Nutritional Sciences; Food Technology; Scientific Research; Communication; Regulatory Compliance Management; Food Safety and Sanitation; Public Health Nutrition
**Our Purpose and Growth Culture**:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role