Frito-Lay Corporate Supply Chain Quality & Food Safety Assoc Analyst

Job Description

We are PepsiCo
PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader operating in more than 200 countries and territories with a product portfolio that includes 22 world-famous, billion-dollar brands. From Gatorade to Quaker, LIFEWTR to Lay’s, we make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to be the global leader in convenient foods and beverages by Winning with Purpose. “Winning with Purpose” reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of the business.

Our employees drive our culture. No two days are the same; we’re dynamic and full of passionate teams embracing new ideas through our collaborative spirit. At PepsiCo, what makes you unique, makes us better!

Functional Description:
The goal of Frito-Lay’s Supply Chain Quality and Food Safety program is to provide students with the opportunity to leverage their academic understanding in a real-world, business-driven environment. You will have an opportunity to work on and manage a variety of different projects as well as leverage relationships and partner with leaders from our manufacturing plants. Our organization is based in Plano, Texas.

What you can expect:

Supply Chain Quality and Food Safety Associate Analyst
In this role, you will be called upon to:

• Assist in the analysis and development of quality and food safety metrics and business processes leveraging Tableau or other analytical tools.
  
• Derive insights from multiple QFS metrics & Communicate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues, report findings to other team members and management as required
  
• Administer policies and practices, initiate, and implement projects
  
• Conduct presentations and formal training programs
  
• Improve team communication and engagement
  
• Think quickly, creatively and challenge team to do the same
  
• Support and execute various components and activities spanning the quality and food safety programs such as collecting data, business case product analysis, risk assessments, documenting procedures, develop training, auditing, process improvement and issues management
  
• Be accountable for quality and food safety programs and achievement of line performance metrics
  
• Passion for leveraging data and creating meaningful insight leveraging key Data analytics techniques include those such as data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, visualization, and statistics
  
• Manage multiple projects and competing priorities
  

• Currently pursuing a degree in: Food Processing Engineering, Food Science, Microbiology, or Chemistry. (other related majors will be considered)
  
• Working knowledge of Python, Tableau and other reporting tools.
  
• Demonstrated leadership ability
  
• Highly motivated self-starters
  
• Strong project management skills
  
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
  
• Ability to work on large projects and manage time and effort without need for constant supervision
  
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
  
• Ability to lead a team based approach to decision making
  
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
  
• Experience with statistical modeling and developing reporting tools
  
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation and team building skills
  
• Communication skills to work with all levels of the organization from manufacturing employees to corporate executives
  
• Proven problem-solving skills
  

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements

• Be completing their final year of undergraduate studies
  
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree prior to the intended full time start date.
  
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.