LRC Specialist - IMEA

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JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

In partnership with our cross-functional partners, ITQ innovates and develops products that meet the ever-changing needs of our consumers and enables long-term business growth. We identify and develop technologies that shape and protect our businesses today and into the future. ITQ operates across three organizations: Global Applications, Capabilities COEs, and Shared Services & Operations

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Purpose of the role

To provide General Mills India with labeling, regulatory, and technical specification support to effectively manage regulatory compliance and protect our brands. This position is responsible for creating and assuring compliance of regulated product label information, including nutrition, ingredient declarations, allergens and claims. This role also addresses and collaborates to resolve regulatory issues pertaining to food labeling and claims. This position manages several projects at once while working cross-functionally, as well as externally, to communicate and influence labeling related and compliance matters for General Mills. This position will also serve as the GPLM Business and Glicps Process Owner

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

50% - Labelling & Regulatory compliance:

• Develop and maintain accurate food labeling information for finished products (e.g. allergens, nutrition, ingredient statements, product name, claims) to assure compliance with India's regulations (FSSAI, Legal metrology etc.), third-party certification standards (e.g. Halal, Kosher) and General Mills policies.
• GCLIPS- Contribute to, review and approve artwork, packaging, graphics and text of existing and proposed product labels to ensure accuracy, consistency, and regulation compliance.
• Complete and submit documentation to support licensing / registration/ product approvals and interact with regulators and/or third-party agencies as necessary.
• Provide consultation to product developer regarding the ingredients and finished product regulatory standards and prepare strategy for risk management, balancing regulatory risk with operational needs.
• GPLM support and inter spec creation- Provide ingredient and formula related feedback to cross functional teams to ensure the specifications are updated with the latest standards/ customer requirements.
• Carry out periodic auditing of labels & formulas to check compliance with the regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with FSQ, R&D & plant for periodic testing of samples & prepare regulatory submissions
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current regulations, relevant technical product and processing information, industry trends and food labeling practices.

40%- Finished Product Regulatory Specifications

• Serve as single point of contact on GPLM queries and escalate the system issues.
• Serve as subject matter expert on the business process of finished product specifications.
• Oversee the status of specifications and workflow requests and collaborate with cross functional teams to determine the project priorities.
• Ensure timely execution of specification tasks and provide the oper ational support to internal customers.
• Collaborate with the cross functional teams and publish specifications to enable business operations or to minimize impact on production challenges.
• Carry out periodic review of Finished Product specifications for data quality improvement.
• Lead inactivation/clean-up of specifications to dispose/archive redundant data.
• Collaborate with the concerned team members for resolution/ trouble shooting of the governance failures.
• Lead with ideas for process and system simplification and standardization. Implement the best practices.
• Guide/ mentor the new team members on specifications management.

10%-Business Team Support/Communication:

. Identify and provide resolution to strategic and tactical regulatory issues pertaining to food labeling. Collaborate with legal to manage regulatory, food safety, litigation risks.

. Develop communication pertaining to labeling on inquiries from consumer, distributor, customer and/or internal cross functional teams.

. Training: Educate/update cross functional team members to understand regulatory and compliance requirements.

. Review marketing material (brand websites, e-commerce, social media, POS etc.) prepared by marketing/sales for accuracy of information and regulatory compliance.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS