Role:
Drive leadership and development of Regional Trade Associations relevant to our current and future portfolio.
Coordinate Region -wide SRA initiatives and provide additional support on critical scientific and regulatory issues in specific countries.
Actively represent TCCC at key scientific and regulatory forums on nutrition and health, food safety and food regulatory/policy matters and act as respected voice internally and externally on scientific and regulatory matters to help protect our products and ingredients, engaging with global government, industry and trade associations.
Leverage cross-functional relationships, particularly with Region PAC and Legal to drive our scientific and regulatory strategy and initiatives in alignment with the Region SRA network.
Maintain, enhance and develop relationships/networks with external experts, government agencies, NGOs and other stakeholders on issues relating to nutrition and health, food safety and food regulatory matters to advance company positions.
Partner with Region R&D to leverage opportunities and mitigate risks related to ingredient, product and package innovation.
Keeps business informed on emerging Region SRA issues and develops strategies to mitigate risks in alignment with the Region SRA network.
Provide leadership to manage people, time and money for greatest effectiveness, with focus on attracting, engaging and retaining best-in-class SRA talent.
Requirements:
Regulatory Landscape: Knowledge of the regulatory and political landscape (e.g., regulations, issues) affecting food and beverages in the Region It also includes the ability to manage complex regulatory issues affecting products, ingredients, packages or claims.
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.
Advanced Regulatory Affairs: Ability to interact with government officials to represent the Company or beverage industry while explaining complex scientific data, reports or issues. This includes the ability to anticipate issues or concerns of interest to public health officials in order to respond to those concerns and the ability to advocate a position in a non-adversarial manner (e.g., during dispute resolution).
Advanced Policy Advocacy: Ability to engage, strategize, collaborate, and lead (both internally and externally) food and beverage policy initiatives that have the potential to negatively or positively impact the Company.
Compliance: Working knowledge of SRA related compliance type process
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, communities and governments.
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.
Problem Analysis and Resolution: Ability to form an opinion or make a decision through careful testing of assumptions and facts; willingness to take action consistent with available facts, constraints and probably consequences.
Strategic Direction: Ability to create a clear view of destination for the functional area, help others understand how and why things will be different when destination is achieved, build commitment and inspire action toward the destination
Job Requirements:
Years of Experience:
Leadership Behaviors:
DRIVE INNOVATION: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business(encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and package innovation).
COLLABORATE WITH SYSTEM, CUSTOMERS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS: Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to approximately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler).
ACT LIKE AN OWNER: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.
INSPIRE OTHERS: Inspire people to deliver our mission and 2020 Vision, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.
DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.
Growth Behaviors:
GROWTH MINDSET: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
SMART RISK: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
EXTERNALLY FOCUSED: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.
PERFORMANCE DRIVEN AND ACCOUNTABLE: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
FAST/AGILE: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
EMPOWERED: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.
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