PepsiCo - GM - Vendor Development

PepsiCo Welcomes You: To Taste the Success!

PepsiCo, the world leader in convenient foods and beverages, welcomes you to a community of over 168,000 employees spread over more than 200 countries and territories across the globe with annual revenues in excess of $42 billion.

PepsiCo’s mission is to be the world’s premier consumer Products Company focused on convenient foods and beverages. The company seeks to produce healthy financial rewards to investors as it provides opportunities for growth and enrichment to its employees, business partners and the communities in which it operates. PepsiCo now has many global brands, which include:

Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew (Diet & Regular), Gatorade, Walkers, Lays Potato Chips, Doritos Tortilla Chips, Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice, 7-UP (Outside USA), Cheetos Cheese Flavoured Snacks, Quaker Cereals, Aquafina Bottled Water, Ruffles Potato Chips, Mirinda, Tostitos Tortilla Chips, Sierra Mist (Diet & Regular) and Fritos Corn Chips.

Founded in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, PepsiCo entered India in 1989 and in the span of a little more than a decade, has grown to become the country’s largest selling soft drinks company as well as dominant player in the snack food segment (Frito-Lay is the leader in the branded potato chips market). To support the operations are the group’s 38 bottling plants in India, of which 16 are company owned and 22 are franchisee owned.

As part of its sustainable development initiatives, PepsiCo India has been a committed leader in the promotion of rain water harvesting, water conservation recycling and the reduction of effluent discharge. Thus, we seek to produce healthy financial rewards to investors as we provide opportunities for growth and enrichment to our employees, our business partners and the communities in which we operate. And in everything we do, we strive for honesty, fairness and integrity.

Accountabilities –

- Develop systems to monitor performance of our suppliers

- Conduct supplier audits at the desired frequency according to the SQA guidelines

- Ensure lot sampling and testing of supplier ingredients in accordance with SQA guidelines

- Report out BU performance in terms of SQA KPI’s to the business and to AMEA

- Maintain accurate records of audit findings

- Conduct supplier audits in accordance with SQA training program and normal external auditor processes

- Ensure all new ingredients are qualified prior to use

- Liaise with OHS representatives for ingredients with potential to affect team members

- Assist suppliers to close audit gaps by suggesting best practices

- Work with Procurement and Technology in the early stages of ingredient development and sourcing.

- Responsible and spearheads the Monthly Quality Review with plants and closely monitors plant wise material issues and takes corrective actions at the vendor’s end.

- Train back up auditors in accordance with the SQA program

- Evaluate the analytical performance of suppliers

- Assist plants with any supplier food safety performance issues or non-conformances.

- Plays a key role in vendor relationship management along with Category managers.

- Spearheads the T2T meeting between key vendors and PepsiCo SLT.

- As a part of vendor relationship management responsible for organizing the yearly vendor meet and conducting the vendor satisfaction survey.

Key Skills/Experience Required –

Skills:

- good communication skills (including report writing and oral presentation)

- good eye for detail

- ability to work with minimal supervision

- practical approach to work

- excellent team player

- creative approach to problem solving

- highly motivated

- excellent time management skills

- ability to influence activities outside realm of direct responsibility

- ability to manage and resolve conflict

- integrity

Knowledge:

- understanding the SQA system

- some process knowledge

- basic analytical knowledge

Experience:

- Tertiary qualifications in science or a related field

- Minimum 10 years’ experience in an Quality in large scale food processing plants/auditing function

Functional Competencies:

Foundational

Capable

- Manufacturing processes

- Food safety

- Food microbiology

Advanced

- Knowledge of analytical methods and equipment

- Knowledge of audit systems

- Training skills

Master

- External Auditor trained

Future Opportunities

- When thinking about new opportunities and potential moves, we typically consider five factors. These are: proven results, leadership capability, functional excellence, knowing the business cold and key experiences. These elements are evaluated against the current set of opportunities and our longer-term commitment to growth and development of our employees.

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