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**Responsibilities**:
**The Opportunity**
- Align priorities with the bottlers and the PepsiCo Region for the five operations pilars.
- Assure properly deployment of new initiatives to the plants in order to be in compliance with Global and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the development and execution of action plans for improving and sustaining Quality and Food Safety.
- Be the main point of contact for Quality Audits, Consumers Complaint resolution, Consumer Product preference and Water Treatment. Main Objective is not to have red plants into the 3C Global Scorecard
- Lead the Pep+ agenda, including plastic strategy agenda.
- Lead the thechincal aspects of Innovation with Bottler, Franchise, Finance, Marketing and PGCS Plant.
- Evaluate plants capacity utilization and develop new co-packers or participate into bottlers new line or plant implementation.
- Support the frontline and our Bottling partner in the execution of our annual operating plan, ensuring no gaps between sales and production.
- Lead the Productivity agenda, searching for benchmarks, new ideas projects and supporting its implementation to continue reducing costs.
- Lead the innovation projects agenda close to the bottlers.
- Lead field tests in suppliers of bottling plants for Productivity, Innovation and Quality & Food Safety.
- Build and analyze Engineering evaluations for Capex and Process improvements.
- Access and help improve the bottler’s capability & tools Implementation as well as execute the continuous improvement process.
- Assure the beverage concentrated kits healthy stock and its supply according to production plan.
- Support financial team with P&L projections for new projects.

**Your Impact**
- Quality and Food Safety:

- Coordinate the FS and QAS results on 3C and leading its respectively actions plans, to have all of the plants out of the red zone.
- Manage all the critical data required to perform follow-ups and operations reports.
- Deployment of New Quality & Food Safety policies and new PepsiCo Manuals to the bottlers
- Monitor the compliance of the Mandatory Requirements for Raw Material, Manufacturing Process Requirements and Food Safety
- Coordinate the bottlers Ingredient Water analisis, leading the root cause identification and action plans to mitigate risks
- Support the implementation of the Food Safety audits and follow-ups.
- Lead the Capability Quality Agenda by organizing training in order to sustain and improve the quality scores in the LAB-South region.
- PEP+:

- Align Sustainability metrics with the bottlers.
- Align and lead AOP plans and priorities with the bottlers and the PepsiCo Region.
- Monitor results and accomplishment of the Pep+ goals.
- Share best practices with bottlers to improve Pep+ objectives and KPIs.
- Lead the PepsiCo process of test and approval for recycle PET usage on bottle to bottle.
- Lead the r-PET agenda by supporting bottlers to find new r-PET sourcings to ensure that both countries has the enough r-PET availability to reach our goals.
- Line Start-up and Qualification:

- Lead new CSD & Hot Fill line qualification.
- Lead scale ups and first production runs according to PepsiCo Policy & Protocols.
- Should organize and Submit detailed reports and documents for QA approval.
- Productivity:

- Drive bottler productivity initiatives leveraging PepsiCo Best Practices.
- Identifying best in class opportunities that can be applied locally.
- Should review, organize documentation (plant test report, transport report, laboratory test reports, etc ) and submit to R&D to obtain their approval when it is related to packaging or ingredient.
- Should be the project leader of the Productivity initiatives in the Stage Gate Process.
- Innovations:

- Lead pilot and lab tests, plant scale-up, line qualification, transport and stack test, tests reports.
- Evaluate necessary equipments, Capex and time-line.
- Sample coordination shipments and receiving.
- Ingredients order for field tests.
- Should review, organize documentation (plant test report