Sr. Specialist SRA FCM

Accelerator, a global Division of Mars Snacking, is on the front line of unlocking growth across high-potential categories and brands to fuel what’s next for Snacking. It’s home to both emerging and enduring brands, including KIND, TRÜ FRÜ, NATURE’S BAKERY, RXBAR, EGGO, POP-TARTS and RICE KRISPIES TREATS. Combining the scale of Mars with the agility of a start-up, our Division has the ambition to accelerate the future of snacking by delivering products consumers love today, discovering category-shaping innovations for tomorrow and developing entrepreneurial teams whose impact will last for generations.

We’re looking for passionate talent who dare to dream big, agile collaborators who talk straight and decide fast, and driven performers with a growth mindset. We’re proudly part of Mars, while also building something boldly different. If this inspires and energizes you, you’ve found the right place where you can do cool things with fun people for one of the biggest snacking companies in the world!

Accelerator, a global Division of Mars Snacking, is on the front line of unlocking growth across high-potential categories and brands to fuel what’s next for Snacking. It’s home to both emerging and enduring brands, including KIND, TRÜ FRÜ, NATURE’S BAKERY, RXBAR, EGGO, POP-TARTS and RICE KRISPIES TREATS. Combining the scale of Mars with the agility of a start-up, our Division has the ambition to accelerate the future of snacking by delivering products consumers love today, discovering category-shaping innovations for tomorrow and developing entrepreneurial teams whose impact will last for generations.

Reporting to the Senior Director leading the Scientific and Regulatory Affairs (SRA) team for the Accelerator business—the division supporting KIND, Tru Fru, Nature's Bakery, and the newly acquired Kellanova brands.

The Sr. Specialist Food Contact Material Compliance is responsible for a variety of scientific and regulatory activities to ensure compliance for food contact materials and packaging in North America (US and Canada) in accordance with regulations, internal processes and policies, and partners cross-functionally with R&D, Packaging Engineering, Quality and Food Safety, Supply and Commercial to enable innovation. As the Accelerator division continues to evolve, this role will also work internally and externally to proactively monitor scientific and regulatory activities in North America related to food contact materials and lead portfolio impact assessments to support regulatory change management and technical advocacy, propose new opportunities, preserve freedom to operate and strengthen business preparedness.

• Ensures the compliance of food contact materials for new, existing and revised packaging materials in partnership with Packaging Engineering, Quality and Food Safety, Supply and Commercial to support the business agenda.
• Deep understanding of business needs and external SRA environment to develop and serves as a strategic partner for regional business stakeholders on key technical topics on packaging.
• Accountable and responsible for ensuring that clear roles and responsibilities, standards, systems and processes are in place to ensure newly developed or revised packaging materials, supply chain resilience and seasonal promotions meet regulatory requirements so that they can be marketed in North America.
• Proactively monitors scientific and regulatory activities in North America in food contact materials legislation; determines current and expected regulatory status of new materials; researches interpretations regarding the safety and acceptability of products and ingredients, conducts…