Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Specialist Africa & Trading

Kraft Heinz Company

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

• Fluent in Arabic & English, French is a plus