2027 Full Time - Supply Chain Quality & Food Safety Assoc. Analyst - Undergrad

PepsiCo • Plano, TX

7h • Onsite

About The Position

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities. At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities. No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next.

Functional Description: The goal of the Supply Chain Quality and Food Safety program is to provide students with the opportunity to leverage their academic understanding in a real-world, business-driven environment. You will have an opportunity to work on and manage a variety of different projects as well as leverage relationships and partner with leaders from our manufacturing plants. Our organization is based in Plano, Texas.

What you can expect:
Assist in the analysis and development of quality and food safety metrics and business processes leveraging Tableau or other analytical tools.
Derive insights from multiple QFS metrics & Communicate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues, report findings to other team members and management as required
Administer policies and practices, initiate, and implement projects
Conduct presentations and formal training programs
Improve team communication and engagement
Think quickly, creatively and challenge team to do the same
Support and execute various components and activities spanning the quality and food safety programs such as collecting data, business case product analysis, risk assessments, documenting procedures, develop training, auditing, process improvement and issues management
Be accountable for quality and food safety programs and achievement of line performance metrics
Passion for leveraging data and creating meaningful insight leveraging key Data analytics techniques include those such as data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, visualization, and statistics
Manage multiple projects and competing priorities

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in: Food Processing Engineering, Food Science, Microbiology, Agriculture/Biological Engineering, or Chemical Engineering (other related majors will be considered)
• Working knowledge of Python, Tableau and other reporting tools.
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Highly motivated self-starters
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
• Ability to work on large projects and manage time and effort without need for constant supervision
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
• Ability to lead a team based approach to decision making
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
• Experience with statistical modeling and developing reporting tools
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation and team building skills
• Communication skills to work with all levels of the organization from manufacturing employees to corporate executives
• Proven problem-solving skills
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
• Be completing their final year of undergraduate studies
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree prior to the intended full time start date
• Hold a GPA of 2.75 or higher

Responsibilities

• Assist in the analysis and development of quality and food safety metrics and business processes leveraging Tableau or other analytical tools.
• Derive insights from multiple QFS metrics & Communicate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues, report findings to other team members and management as required
• Administer policies and practices, initiate, and implement projects
• Conduct presentations and formal training programs
• Improve team communication and engagement
• Think quickly, creatively and challenge team to do the same
• Support and execute various components and activities spanning the quality and food safety programs such as collecting data, business case product analysis, risk assessments, documenting procedures, develop training, auditing, process improvement and issues management
• Be accountable for quality and food safety programs and achievement of line performance metrics
• Passion for leveraging data and creating meaningful insight leveraging key Data analytics techniques include those such as data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, visualization, and statistics
• Manage multiple projects and competing priorities

Benefits

• Paid time off in accordance with policy is subject to eligibility and includes vacation, holiday, sick, bereavement and parental leave
• Vacation: for eligible full-time employees, a minimum of 15 paid vacation days
• Holidays: for eligible full-time employees, the company provides 10 paid holidays annually
• Sick Leave: for eligible full- time employees, 10 days (80 hours) of paid sick leave benefits are available for absences related to non-job-related injury. Sick leave benefit will be accrued during your first year at 1 day for each month worked in that calendar year
• Bereavement Leave: In the event of a death of an immediate family member, full-time and part-time regular employees are eligible to receive up to three (3) consecutive working days with pay
• Parental Leave: for eligible employees, the company offers paid parental leave for up to 6 weeks to allow for a time of bonding with their newborn or newly adopted child
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level