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Regulatory Specialist

TekWissen LLC

Hershey, PA

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$33–$43.67
SKILLS
Agriculture, Analysis Skills, Biology, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Chemistry, Communication Skills, Consumer Packaged Goods, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional, Detail Oriented, Diversity, Documentation, Food Science, Food and Beverage Industry, Healthcare, Illustrating Ability, Legal, Maintain Compliance, Marketing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Multitasking, Nutrition, Oracle WebCenter, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Product Data Management (PDM), Product Development, Product Lifecycle, Product Support, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Submissions, Research & Development (R&D), Research Skills, SAP PLM, Supply Chain, Systems Maintenance, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Hershey, PA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: Regulatory Specialist
Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Role Summary
This role supports Regulatory Affairs activities for Salty Snacks brands, ensuring compliance with U.S. food regulations across the product lifecycle-from ideation through commercialization and post launch. The position partners cross functionally with R&D, Marketing, Legal, Quality, and Supply Chain to deliver compliant ingredients, formulas, labels, claims, and certifications for Salty products.
Key Responsibilities
  • 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 U.S. 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 and 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)
Top Three Technical Skills
  1. U.S. Food Regulatory Knowledge (labeling, allergens, claims, ingredients, additives)
  2. Finished Product Labeling, artwork reviews and approvals & Claims Review (end to end execution)
  3. Cross Functional Regulatory Support in a fast paced consumer packaged goods environment
Required Qualifications (Must Haves)
  • 2 5+ years Regulatory Affairs experience in food companies
  • Strong working knowledge of U.S. 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
Soft Skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong problem solving and critical thinking; comfortable with ambiguity
  • Excellent analytical and research skills
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to self-manage multiple priorities
  • Strong initiative and ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment
  • Impeccable ethics and high level of confidentiality
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.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

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.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/