USA - Formulation Scientist

Bill rate range: 50.00 ***/hr
Location: Englewood Cliffs
Duration: 18mo


Background & Purpose of the Job

Ice Cream is a fun, very innovative, competitive, and fast-paced category. *** s Ice Cream Business Unit in North America looks after a strong portfolio of brands: Ben & Jerry s, Breyers, Good Humor, Klondike, Magnum, Popsicle, Talenti and Yasso.

As a member of the Ice Cream R&D team, you will support the R&D activities to deliver the Ice Cream program, ranging from innovation, renovation, quality improvement and margin enhancement. You will work as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver to deliver the brand s program and 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

What you ll do:

Support/lead projects:

- Execute agreed R&D activities to deliver the brand s program, ranging from innovation, renovation, quality improvement 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; Be the material expert and lead creation of new specifications for new ingredients.

Provide technical and product guidance:

- Actively participate and/or represent R&D in Supply Chain and Marketing 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, and key stakeholders.

What You ll Need To Succeed

A deep passion for product design and creative product development

Education/Experience

- 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 low-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.

- Working knowledge 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 Supply Chain.

Communication

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to construct trial/lab reports and presentation, including recommendations.

- Ability to present information to both technical and non-technical audiences.