Product Development Scientist – Sauces and Condiments

Sauer Brands, Inc. • Mauldin, SC

42d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Product Development Scientist, you will have the opportunity to drive innovation, renovation, and maintenance of product lines, enabling growth and ensuring quality objectives and business continuity for Sauer Brands. Your role will involve prioritizing and executing technical projects that contribute to the condiments and sauces business. Daily responsibilities include crafting and performing tests, analyzing data, presenting results cross-functionally, and commercializing pipeline opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering or a related scientific field
• Minimum of five (5) years relevant product development and commercialization experience required
• Understanding of ingredient functionality and interrelationship of ingredients, processes, and packaging
• Excellent communication, influencing, prioritization, and project management skills
• Strong critical thinking skills and ability to make connections to the big picture
• Ability to manage multiple assignments/tasks concurrently with the ability to question the priority of work
• Strong understanding of Design of Experiments

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity leading projects for foodservice and/or condiments and sauces strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Work with cross functional teams to lead and support condiment and sauce projects from concept to commercialization, including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Quality, and Procurement
• Demonstrate the willingness and ability to learn new product categories and processing technologies
• Apply technical expertise in food science to ideate and develop product concepts/prototypes that solve for customer issues within the context of our portfolio of products
• Manage multiple development projects concurrently to meet R&D timelines
• Design and execute bench and factory trials, then summarize and translate results clearly for technical and non-technical teams
• Direct communication with external partners including customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners
• Adapt and apply scientific principles to new situations/products and have a high degree of autonomy
• Create and update multi-component product documentation and specifications with attention to detail

Benefits

• 401K
• Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
• Vacation, Sick Days and Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee and Dependent Life Insurance
• Company paid Short-term and Long-term disability
• Other Voluntary Insurance Options

What This Job Offers

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