Location
Northbrook, IL | United States
Job description
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Description:
- Support Regulatory Affairs Manager – Americas on items produced and sold in the US – categories of focus will be: cookies, crackers, and granolas.
- Provide regulatory knowledge to project teams in aspects related to labeling elements, such as: nutrition panel, mandatory labeling elements/declaration (ex – statement of identity, net weight declarations, etc), and claims.
- Review and approve artwork related to technical regulatory labeling compliance.
- Provide regulatory knowledge to technical teams on food safety regulations, pesticide regulations, and other areas of technical regulatory compliance.
- When necessary, attend cross-functional project team meetings and lead/coordinate regulatory participation.
- Develop nutrition panels using Genesis software.
- Develop plan to track nutrition analyses effectively (nutrition control plan) and manage nutrition database.
- Lead regulatory feasibility analysis for new categories/items.
- Support special projects related to regulatory function and industry initiatives as needed.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree (or completion of at least 2 years of degree) in Food Science or Nutrition preferred, other related majors also considered.
- Experience related to food manufacturing and regulatory work a plus.
- Completion of, or currently taking a US Food Regulations course is ideal.
- Previous work developing nutrition panels (using Genesis or similar software) and maintaining a database a plus.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize work with overlapping deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong initiative, willingness to learn, and the ability to adapt in a fast paced environment.
- Attention to detail and strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Computational skills.
Experience Level:
Intermediate Level
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