Job Description

About Kerry

Kerry is the world\'s leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers\' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The primary role of Regulatory Technologist is to work in partnership with the Kerry Regulatory Scientific Affairs team to support regulatory queries from internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the execution of various Traded Goods and Raw Material requests in an efficient and timely manner.
• Manage specification approvals for all raw materials.
• Conducts administrative duties within defined guidelines.
• Ensure that all raw materials comply with policies including allergen management and risk of cross contamination.
• Highlight any errors/amend raw materials specifications being submitted by suppliers and make sure they are up to date with any relevant changes.
• Challenge suppliers and ensure requests for information/ food safety questions are resolved/ answered promptly within the critical path timescales.
• Check and approve relevant Raw Material specifications for legality and accuracy and ensuring correct specs enter the business and ensure raw material specifications cover the ever- changing customer and business technical requirements.
• Support site audits to cover traceability of incoming raw materials.
• Create and maintain various documentation such as technical documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate and develop effective working relationships between internal (RDA, QA, Operations, Procurement & Commercial) & external stakeholders.
• Responsible for managing and meeting individual and overall department Key Performance Indicators.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive continuous excellence initiatives.
• Remain fully flexible to meet business requirements.

• Food regulatory & legislative knowledge.
• Customer Advocacy.
• Scientific and Technical Expertise.
• Conduct administrative tasks.

• Fluent in any of the languages - English, Italian, French, German, Spanish.

• Computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Experience in SAP, Optiva, Power BI and Salesforce systems an advantage.
• Fluency in English. Fluency in another language an added advantage.

• Degree or local equivalence of same in Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Food Science or related discipline.
• 0-3 years\' experience of related experience in food industry in Regulatory, Quality Assurance, Production or R&D.
• Food industry knowledge.
• Analytical, self-starter, decisive and able to perform under pressure and a team player; able to take instruction and perform work accordingly.
• Possess good co-operation / communication / presentation / interpersonal and organization skills.

• Flexible / Time Management skills able to work accurately and quickly in a fast-paced work environment.
• Have no challenge to work in European working hours. (2pm-11pm & 3pm-12am)
• Open & able to support operation with overtime, skeletal workforce during public holidays & as and when required to ensure business continuity.
• Good decision-making skills.
• Proficient problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Able to work on your own initiative and pay attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team.

Kerry Group