Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. It also manufactures baked products, beverages and many more that are produced globally.
Position: Regulatory Specialist / Sr. Regulatory Specialist Salty Snacks
Location: Hershey, PA 17033
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 08:00am 04:30pm
Job Description:
- This role supports Regulatory Affairs activities for Salty Snacks brands, ensuring compliance with food regulations across the product lifecycle-from ideation through commercialization and post launch.
- The position partners cross functionally with R&D, Marketing, Legal, Quality, Supply Chain to deliver compliant ingredients, formulas, labels, claims, and certifications for Salty products
Main Duties:
- Provide regulatory compliance support for Salty Snacks brands, including ingredient, recipe, labeling, and claims reviews
- Execute finished product labeling activities from creation through final packaging approval
- Review and assess ingredients, additives, flavors, colors, allergens, and processing aids for regulatory compliance
- Support claims substantiation (e.g., nutrition, organic, non GMO, vegan, kosher, gluten free, whole grain as applicable)
- Partner with cross functional teams to support innovation, renovation, and continuous improvement projects
- Utilize internal systems (SAP-PLM/PDM, labeling and compliance tools, Webcenter/ESKO) to document regulatory decisions and approvals
- Support responses to internal and external regulatory questions, including consumer and customer inquiries
Typical Day:
- Support label development, artwork reviews and approvals
- Review recipe submissions for regulatory compliance, work on claims substantiations
- Participate in cross functional project meetings for Salty innovation and renovations
- Provide regulatory guidance to R&D, Marketing, and Commercial teams
- Update regulatory systems and trackers (labels, certifications, compliance reviews)
Technical Skills:
- Food Regulatory Knowledge (labeling, allergens, claims, ingredients, additives)
- Finished Product Labeling, artwork reviews and approvals & Claims Review (end to end execution)
- Cross Functional Regulatory Support in a fast paced consumer packaged goods environment
Soft skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking. Comfortable with ambiguity.
- Excellent analytical and research skills
- Excellent communication skills (i.e. verbal, written)
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to self-manage for managing numerous priorities
- Strong initiative, and the ability to change in a fast-changing environment
- Impeccable ethics and must maintain a high level of confidentiality
Must Haves
- 2 5+ years Regulatory Affairs experience in food companies
- Strong working knowledge of food labeling and ingredient regulations
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Food Regulatory, Biology, Chemistry, or related field
- Experience supporting cross functional product development teams
Software Skills and Purpose
- PLM / PDM- SAP systems ingredient, recipe, and label compliance
- Labeling and artwork systems (e.g., WebCenter or equivalent) label development and approvals
- Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint) documentation, summaries, and stakeholder communication
Industry Experience:
- Food, consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry
- Experience with Salty Snacks or baked snack categories strongly preferred
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Hershey, PA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $39–$44.86 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
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Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Beveragesunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Chemistryunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Consumer Packaged Goodsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Food Scienceunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- Illustrating Abilityunmatched
- Legalunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
- Nutritionunmatched
- Oracle WebCenterunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Data Management (PDM)unmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Product Lifecycle Managementunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Submissionsunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Research Skillsunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- SAP PLMunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Level up your application
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