PepsiCo Inc. - Leicester, England (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Job Description
Right now here at PepsiCo we have an immediate opening for a Project Manager to join our long term research team on a 12 month contract.
At PepsiCo innovation takes centre stage. That means our Europe R&D team are at the heart of the action and are kept busy creating exciting new products for consumers across the continent, from Leicester to Hamburg to Moscow. In a fast-moving consumer environment, our research and development capability is crucial to provide a fresh twist to our favourite brands as well as creating new healthy choices that we need to succeed in the market. Focusing our research and development on meeting the latest consumer needs - whether nutrition, refreshment or indulgence -will drive our growth both now and in the future. Do you share our passion for innovation? If so we could take your talents to a whole new level.
So that's the formal business intro out of the way… basically we are looking for a project manager to join the team and look after a small portfolio of projects related to sodium reduction. You will manage the full project lifecycle from development, through to design and then scale up and implantation. So if you thrive on working in a fast paced environment, and you love a challenge then this could be the role for you.
- Manage day to day LTR projects through best practice project management of work programmes to budget and time. This will include external and internal project team, government agencies and suppliers.
- Responsible for the manufacture and design of prototypes in partnership with academic and internal collaborators ensuring the execution, quality and cost requirements of projects.
- Working with ingredients and equipment suppliers to formulate new ingredients suppliers in conjunction with academic partners.
- Generate hypotheses and conduct sound project research - plan, design, organise, execute and report statistically sound experiments in a precise and timely manner to generate and test new hypotheses. Make recommendations based on data analysis and input from others.
- Identifying product solutions to delight the consumer and manufacturing product prototypes. Proving consumer/sensory/analytical samples to assist in determining process development direction.
- Develop practical solutions for problems encountered on current assignments, connecting with external world with an Adopt - Adapt - Invent mindset.
- Grow capable people by coaching and implementing development plans for others within the team.
Essential Skills
- Requires PhD in Science/Food Science/ Biochem/Chem. Engineering or equivalent skills/experience
- Competence at product and/or process development
- Must have project management experience
- Must be practically minded and adept at using processing equipment and scientific instruments in a Pilot Plant environment,
- Competent at working with pilot scale equipment, with an appreciation of operator and equipment safe working practices (HACCP, HAZOP, PUWER, etc.)
- Must apply a scientific approach to understanding complex interactions between material properties and process conditions, and their influence on finished product attributes
- Very good attention to detail, highly numerate and computer literate (Microsoft Office)
- Effective negotiation skills to ensure equitable use of shared Pilot Plant resources
- Whilst the role is day based at one location, willing to work flexible hours on occasion and travel as necessary.
- Valid driving licence
PepsiCo produces the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 product lines that each generates more than $1billion in annual retail sales. Our main businesses - Frito-Lay, Quaker, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana and Gatorade - also make hundreds of other nourishing, tasty foods and drinks that bring joy to our consumers in more than 200 countries.
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