The Kraft Heinz Company is looking for a Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Specialist who will support scientific and regulatory activities to help ensure products comply with applicable regulations and internal standards. This role will collaborate cross-functionally to review product formulations, ingredients, labeling, and claims; prepare and maintain regulatory documentation; monitor regulatory changes; and provide guidance to internal stakeholders throughout product development and commercialization. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in food science and regulatory requirements, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to communicate clearly with partners across R&D, Quality, Legal, and Commercial teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for providing timely compliance input to all projects and ensure it meets and aligns with food compliance related laws, legislation, and regulations across Africa & Trade markets
Responsible to give compliance guidance in work streams, and to follow up, verify and validate execution of such actions by stakeholders
Accountable for validating that ingredients, formulas, labelling, and claims are in full compliance with laws and regulations in markets been sold
Communicate anticipated issues and provide regulatory support and compliance guidance for projects handled to the relevant stakeholders and forums
Support a proactive strategic approach in regulatory function to identify, monitor, analyze early signals of upcoming regulations that might have impact in A&T market, categorize them as per their likelihood and potential impact for the business.
Build and maintain relationships with the relevant industrial groups and authorities to maintain awareness of new food legislations.
Track- monitor and report on the completion of necessary changes that need to be done due to new regulations in order to prevent any penalties from authority.
Drive cross-functional cooperation to effectively respond to regulatory related questions, challenges and issues raised for local, import and export products.
Proactively identify and communicate SRA risk in any project or work stream
Accountable to ensure risk assessment and mitigation plans are communicated to stakeholders
Lead the registration process, collecting relevant documents, and keeping track of license expiration for the relevant SSA markets
Drive a culture of scientific and regulatory affairs adherence to internal and external compliance processes and practices, driving continuous improvements opportunities
Provide technical and legal labelling Information and support artwork approval process
Ensure consistency and synergy in label & declarations on packaging across A&T markets (especially shared artworks)
Scientific and regulatory affairs representation in all projects driven forums
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, Biotechnology, or Food Science
5 years of experience in regulatory compliance/affairs preferably within a food, beverage, or consumer sector
Experience working with Microsoft programs and system tools related to recipes and artworks
Experience in translation is preferred
Fluent in Arabic & English, French is a plus
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.