R&D Social Beverages Intern

at  PepsiCo

Overview:
PepsiCo Internship Programme is 6-8 month program designed for high potential undergraduate students, just like you, into real life business impact roles – with the goal to best prepare you for a successful future. We are now looking to hire an R&D Social Beverages Intern to join the team in Cork, Ireland starting next year for the duration of 6-8 months.

WHO WE ARE:

• We are the concentrate team in PepsiCo (PGCS) working across the Beverage, Nutrition and Snacks categories to deliver concentrate for many of PepsiCo’s mega brands including Gatorade, 7Up and Pepsi.
• We are at the heart of PepsiCo products, sourcing ingredients to manufacture more than 1,200 recipes for our brands.
• We are a global organisation, situated in 15 locations across 6 countries offering careers in various functions from Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Finance, R&D, HR and IT.
• We collaborate in our fast-paced global organisation and are passionate about creating and delivering much-loved household brands to markets across the world.
  Responsibilities:

Support R&D Social Beverages Product Development Team for Europe wide initiatives.

• Support new product development based on consumer insights, cost, process/package requirements and ensure regulatory compliance;
• Support the formula design for innovation, productivity and product optimization, and responsible for prototype preparation in lab;
• Carry out Product stability tests and shelf life studies
• Work with food safety, quality, nutrition to ensure the product design meet the respective guardrails
• Work with SCPI team to support consumer research and exploration;
• Work with engineering team for trial runs in pilot plant, scale up trials run in plant and validation of new equipment;
• Work with finance team, PGCS innovation, supply chain, operation team to ensure formula commercialization from lab to plant;
• Follow Technical Stage Gate (TSG) and ensure every project meets TSG requirement;

Follow global practice and requirements on flavor guardrail, TPR and FSS
Qualifications:

Please refer the Job description for details