Description

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Regulatory Product Group Lead will identify, set and drive regulatory activities and strategic direction for a cocoa and chocolate product group and throughout the EMEA region internally and externally. In this role, you will work closely with research and development, food safety quality and regulatory operations and relevant functions. You will partner with a broad set of key stakeholders to define and enable compliance systems and processes to enable commercial teams to establish and achieve business objectives and growth strategies.

Key Accountabilities

• Be the main regulatory and scientific affairs contact across functions for Cocoa and Chocolate product group including product lines, key customers and commercial leaders.
• Provide strategy and guidance and coordinate the regulatory affairs initiatives within a product group in the region to define the regulatory compliance for existing products and products destined for export.
• Provide thought leadership in regulatory and scientific affairs area in the region including midterm and long term emerging issues.
• Partner with food safety quality and regulatory, and research and development colleagues to assess and implement programs and processes that enable regulatory compliance and innovation and priorities.
• Monitor, understand, anticipate and interpret regulatory changes and share and train related functions to improve partnering and effectiveness.
• Develop and coordinate regulatory positions, requirements and processes and work with commercial teams, functional units, key customers, trade associations and external regulatory agencies.
• Develop strong coordination and connections globally within our product groups and regionally across product groups to leverage synergies, ensure continuous development and enable capacity building for executing regulatory compliance and innovation.
• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science or food law; or equivalent experience
• Advanced knowledge of food laws and regulations relevant to cocoa and chocolate product group
• Active participation in key Trade Association (s) in the region
• Minimum of 8 years of related work experience
• Experience in Cocoa & Chocolate is a must

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in science or law
• Min 10 - 15 years of professional regulatory experience
• Strong relationship with government agencies in the region
• Active participation in key Trade Association(s) in the region
• Advanced knowledge of food laws & regulations in EU & Cocoa Chocolate Subject matter expert and ensuring compliance with food laws and regulations

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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

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