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**Responsibilities**:
**The Opportunity**
Product Developer Associate Manager is responsible for manage and execute innovation and sugar reduction projects for the category in LAB. This person manages deliverables of multi-functional R&D teams, and interacts with business multi-functional teams aiming to develop & implement key projects for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) & PepsiCo Strategic Plan (PSP).
**Your Impact**
As an **Product Developer Assoc. Manager **your scope would consist of:
- To deliver safe, stable, regulation-compliant and correctly targeted products and processes.
- Deliver executional AOP product innovation in line with marketing strategy and consumer preference from bench top development to scale up trials working together with Field Ready.
- Keep in strict compliance with stage gate, and myInnovation processes, and aligning adequate priority assignments to each initiative.
- Product/Project documentation formulae & specs, ingredients specification, label information, nutritional facts & data to support claims.
- Close interaction with ingredient suppliers (raw material, new technologies, etc.), providing accurate & brief proposals, reviewing and confirming due specifications and establishing a Quality Vendor agreement (COA/COC).
- Monitor product development process within established schedule and contribute to risk analysis and identification.
- Participate and account for all protocols used in scale-up of new products and provide support in any new analytical or micro methods linked to product requirements.
- Search for, evaluate and share information with Support Center NY and other PepsiCo R&D centers on formulae, new raw materials and processes to ensure product innovation in the region.
- Responsible for validating the labeling information for local product.
- Close collaboration with Analytical and Microbiology groups to develop raw material specs and processes.
Qualifications:
**Who Are We Looking For?**
**Education**
- Food Science / Food Technology / Food Chemist / or Chemist Bachelor's degree.
**Experience**
- 7 to 10 years of experience on R&D CSD platform; Juice and Fruit Products development / Manufacturing experience desirable.
- Sensory Analysis knowledge and experience a plus.
- Basic knowledge of Food Safety, GMPs and Quality Systems.
- Leadership, communication and project management skills -adaptable with initiative.
- Proven ability to align and communicate across functional levels
- Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Conversational/ technical fluency in English.
- Ability to influence diverse team members with challenging, technical and time-bound objectives.
- Strong alignment skills at several organizational levels.
- Excellent oral and written language skills (Spanish & English).
- Intellectual Curiosity.
- Understanding and functional competence with CSD platform products.
- Ability to organize and analyze technical information (specs, documentation, etc.)
- Ability to be effective inside laboratory and demonstrate supervision skills.
- Proven project management skills.
**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