Scientist / Sr. Scientist

As a Product Development Scientist, you will assist one of our key strategic customers in creating seasonings and spray-dried cheese formulations that meet specific sensory and functional requirements.  Reporting to the group’s Manager, the Senior Scientist will be an integral part of a dynamic and collaborative product development team, with a strong focus on customer collaboration.  Experience in cheese and/or spray drying is highly valued.

Responsibilities:

• Provide snack seasonings product development support for customers to include building and sustaining relationships within the core customer development teams
• Guide technical excellence and differentiation through robust product design, leveraging technology and implementing feedback from internal and external resources in an ever-changing environment
• Create market-preferred snack seasonings through bench top product development, leveraging culinary input, technical innovation and consumer insights
• Guide customer requests by interacting with a broad multifunctional team to provide best in class solutions
• Conducting plant trials

 What We Will Bring To The Table:

• The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:
• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• We prioritize our communities and the planet we share. We are proud to be awarded as a Diversity Inc. Top 50 company for Diversity and have multiple Sustainability awards (ranking #22 in the World and #1 in Food Products)
• Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness
• Tuition assistance

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristen Gawrys at kgawrys@cps4jobs.com.

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Salary

$100,000 - $110,000

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of product development experience in the food industry. Must have seasoning development experience with good understanding from design to scale up
• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science / Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry or a related field
• Strong understanding of consumer and general sensory testing, including its application to product development
• Experience collecting and interpreting scientific data, including sensory, analytical, and commercialization
• Experience effectively collaborating across levels and functions within own organization and with outside customers and vendors
• Ability and willingness to travel 10-20%
• Proven success multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
• High degree of ownership and professional commitment
• Desire and ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of people
• Good written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively with external and internal customers
• Curiosity and innovative thinking
• Proven ability to interpret scientific data, including sensory and analytical, and commercialization

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS Degree and/or PhD in Food Science or a related field
• Experience with SAP, product formulation and retrieval systems
• Technical background with cheese, spray drying, seasonings or combination
• Proficiency in vendor management and development including the implementation of new ingredients as required

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristen Gawrys at kgawrys@cps4jobs.com.

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