Product Quality Benchmarking Associate

PepsiCo; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is offering a 12-month assignment focused on Food Safety & Quality Assurance analytics across top beverage markets. You will drive data-informed decisions by leveraging consumer science, product quality, and market performance insights to strengthen competitive advantage.

You will collaborate with Product Development, Data Engineering, and Consumer Science teams to deliver the digital Competitive Scorecard and manage a near $3MM program budget, ensuring alignment with financial calendars

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in Supply Chain, R&D, FSQA, or related functions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor trade performance data and identify trends to support continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product Development teams to track formulas and maintain specifications repository.
• Manage external vendor relationships and scope of work to meet objectives.
• Create Lab Advantage requests for consumer research and track to completion.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Consumer Science to update the digital Competitive Scorecard.
• Support financial management of a near $3MM program budget, including PO creation, invoice tracking, forecasting.

Skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

This 12-month assignment supports the FSQA (Food Safety & Quality assurance) competitive performance assessment of PepsiCo’s core beverage products across the Top International Beverages markets.

Overview

This 12-month assignment supports the FSQA (Food Safety & Quality assurance) competitive performance assessment of PepsiCo’s core beverage products across the Top International Beverages markets. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to PepsiCo’s Product Superiority programs by leveraging consumer science, product quality, and market performance insights to drive data-informed decisions and strengthen competitive advantage.

Responsibilities

• Monitor trade performance data and identify, investigate, and upscale out-of-specification trends to local teams to support continuous improvement.


• Partner with Product Development teams to track current in-market formulas and maintain product specifications repository to ensure accurate testing and benchmarking.


• Manage external vendor relationships and scope of work to ensure delivery against program objectives.


• Create Lab Advantage request for each consumer research and track to its full completion.


• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Consumer Science scientists to update and deliver the digital Competitive Scorecard.


• Support financial management of a near $3MM program budget, including purchase order creation, invoice tracking, forecasting, and adherence to financial calendars and processes.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience supporting Supply Chain, R&D, FSQA, or related functions.


• Strong analytical, organizational, and time-management skills, with experience in data analysis. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and ideally Power BI.


• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with a proactive and collaborative mindset.


• Experience with budget management preferred; experience with document management systems is a plus.


• Flexibility with working hours; while alignment with U.S. time zones is not required, occasional meetings may extend to 18:00, with flexibility in start times on those days.


• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment without direct colleagues or managers at the same location, but in a collegial R&D office.


• Professionalism and discretion when participating in senior leadership (Director-level and above) meetings, including handling confidential information appropriately.