Scientist - CAMM North America

Unilever • Englewood Cliffs, NJ

6d

About The Position

Background & Purpose of the Job The Cooking Aids and Mini Meals (CAMM) Business is a critical pillar within Unilever’s Foods business. It houses Knorr, one of Unilever’s 30 powder brands and second largest global brand. Knorr serves millions of American and Canadian consumers daily, led by its purpose to provide accessible and affordable nutrition to the many. As a member of the CAMM R&D team, you will both lead and support the R&D activities required to deliver the R&D program, ranging from innovation, product superiority and margin enhancement. You will work as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver the brand’s business objectives. Who You Are & What You’ll Do You love to win, and have fun doing it: You are passionate about product development and you are customer/consumer focused. You are comfortable with multi-tasking and operating in a fast paced, multi-faceted, and multi-cultural environment You’re a dot connector: You are a problem solver: you break an issue into smaller parts to examine them. You build and manage relationships with cross-functional teams, key stakeholders, and strategic vendor partners to enable progress. You’re a paradox navigator: You leverage your technical knowledge and experience, awareness of culinary and product trends and consumer insights to deliver superior new products that meet the project and business deliverables. You’re a changemaker: You can identify and address emerging issues as well as set and manage priorities and continuously improve processes and practices

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Food Science or equivalent degree.
• 2-5 years of experience in the food industry, preferably in product development
• Technical Project Management
• Ability to independently execute tasks and projects with moderate complexity
• Ability to develop, plan, conduct, and coordinate prototype development initiatives across multiple projects/tasks.
• Working knowledge in use of ingredients, formulation, process, and product design principles.
• Fully operational in specification creation and approval and costing.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data with guidance on final conclusions.
• Working knowledge of experimental design, root cause analysis and problem-solving techniques.
• Good understanding of manufacturing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to construct trial/lab reports and presentations, including making recommendations.
• Ability to present information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support/lead projects: Execute agreed R&D activities to deliver the brand’s program, ranging from innovation, product superiority and margin enhancement. Works as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver projects on time in full.
• Develop products: Independently design products against simple product briefs, design/execute test protocols for the various technical aspects of projects as required (e.g., prototype development and scale-up, shelf-life testing, analytical testing, etc.)
• Lead the process of specification/label creation in SAP PLM from the request to the approved status.
• Provide technical and product guidance
• Actively participate and/or represent R&D in cross functional meetings.
• Assess feasibility of new ideas and troubleshoot activities where formulation knowledge is essential.
• Support technical investigations using root-cause analysis and problem-solving techniques as required for existing and new products.
• Establish and maintain internal and external working relationships
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with R&D, Supply Chain and Marketing teams, customers, suppliers, and key stakeholders.

Benefits

• Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.
• Benefits : Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

What This Job Offers

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