QFS Capability Manager

PepsiCo; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo in Gurugram, Haryana is seeking a dedicated quality leader to drive quality and food safety initiatives across manufacturing sites. This role involves developing training tools and mentoring plant teams to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills and a background in quality management, with a focus on developing a quality culture within the organization. Join PepsiCo to help deliver safe and preferred products for consumers.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality management and food safety standards.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality and food safety training across sites.
• Implement strategic initiatives for quality compliance.
• Lead deployment of PepsiCo standards at manufacturing plants.

Job description

Overview

This role is expected to drive quality, food safety & regulatory competency development across the sites by developing training tools, conducting training sessions, leading and mentoring plant teams.

With co‑manufacturing footprint increasing and new portfolios being added (Kurkure, Uncle Chipps, Solid Masti, Oats, Puffcorn and Lay’s), there is need to build capability of operating teams with respect to Q&FS to deliver safe and consumer preferred products.

The role will ensure consistent compliance to QFS systems, enhance supervision with additional support, direction & guidance to ensure consistent delivery of Quality.

Responsibilities

• Implement key strategic initiatives (e.g., digitalization) to ensure compliance to all quality & food safety criteria
• Lead deployment of new PepsiCo standards across new co‑pack manufacturing plant while ensuring all existing standards are maintained
• Lead GFSS, QSHA & ASHA across all plants with timely visits to Co‑man sites
• Lead SET development at Co‑man sites
• Support driving quality & food safety systems in plant for NPD and other R&D trials
• Support building a capable and engaged quality team and an overall quality culture
• Work on specialized projects of Pep+, productivity etc.
• Work on the quality and food safety culture initiatives
• Lead end‑to‑end reviews with Co‑man sites for all quality & food safety KPIs and ensure all actions taken to support

Internal Stakeholders

• Co‑pack operations
• Co‑pack development
• R&D PD
• FSQA
• RnD Packaging
• R&D SRA
• SC Engineering
• Legal
• SPL
• GP

Qualifications

JD attached