Senior Product Development Specialist

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA • St. Louis, MO

2d • $90,000 - $124,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Our Product Development Senior Specialists bring ideas to life for both our wet and dry factories. As part of the Technical Services group, you’ll create the flavors, shapes, and textures often innovated in marketing and so enjoyed by pets. Come prepared to handle various intermediate-term product developments and engineering processes for the business, as well as provide technical support to manufacturing operations. You’ll leverage your sharp science background and food formulation experience to be able to effectively qualify new raw materials and suppliers. Identify and lead performance, waste reduction, and quality improvement projects to help us remain a leader on the shelf. Our fast-paced, multi-functional teams are focused on taking new products from conception to market.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience in product development (food), formulation and scale-up experience, or related
• OR High School Diploma/GED and 9+ years of experience in product development (food), formulation and scale-up experience, or related
• Must be able to travel 50% of the time

Responsibilities

• Manage development, scale up, and implementation of new and existing technologies to improve the performance of existing products and develop new products
• Explore innovative applications of pet food product/process possibilities based on current state-of-art food technology
• Serve as technical resource for marketing to develop a robust pipeline of product development opportunities, which includes developing technical project plans and timelines for all assigned projects
• Support product formulation including appropriate ingredients, nutritional, regulatory and analytical requirements
• Proactively monitor and provide product maintenance for assigned product responsibilities requiring standardized scientific procedures
• Initiate and implement cost reduction ideas for assigned product lines and factories

Benefits

• 401k with Company match
• healthcare coverage
• a broad range of other benefits

What This Job Offers

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