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USA - Formulation Scientist

Lancesoft

Englewood Cliffs, NJ

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$35
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer/Client Research, Data Analysis, Establish Priorities, Experiment Design, Feasibility Analysis, Food Science, Food and Beverage Industry, Identify Issues, Ingredient Selection, Market Trend Analysis, Marketing, Multicultural, Multitasking, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Design, Product Development, Project/Program Management, Prototyping, Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relations, Quality Management, Relationship Management, Research & Development (R&D), Root Cause Analysis, SAP PLM, Supply Chain, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Test Design, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Planning, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
POSTED
5 days ago

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.


Job Sumary:
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Shift: ['- 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.']

Start: ['- 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.']

About the Company

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Lancesoft

We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc). 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

COMPANY SIZE
2,000 to 2,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
2000
WEBSITE
http://www.lancesoft.com/

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