Product Specialist

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe?

At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, Skinny Cow and Outshine, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe.

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply Chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly.

We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it.

Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you.

The New Product Specialist ensures the projects are executed on time and meet approved capital budget, operating budget, and cost savings targets. This individual is responsible for the overall successful development, implementation and commercialization of new products and improvement projects within the factory, as the SME of site technical processes and products oversees the capability building of employee knowledge and skills.

• Coordinate and manage existing products/ processes renovation projects.
• Is the guardian of technical product and process standards, providing site technical support.
• Maintain and continually update stakeholders on the status of projects, risk factors, risk mitigation activities, decision points, successes, and learning’s. Facilitate plant trial and start-up process for assigned projects.
• Attention to detail and follow through. Provide work direction and general project management including scheduling, assignment of work, and review of projects to ensure that the project is meeting technical and process specifications as outlined.
• Continually builds employees’ technical capability through creation and delivery of training, materials, coaching, and progressive skill building experiences.
• As technical expert in all product and processes will be involved at the beginning of all improvement projects/activities and across all functional streams.
• Recommend and evaluate new concepts in processing and product formulation that will improve product quality and reduce production and formulation costs through the use of approved systems, tools and methodologies.
• As technical expert in all product and processes will be involved at the beginning of all new product development projects/activities as part of the NPDI process.
• Organize and supervise renovated/new products and processes factory testing.
• Work closely with all functional groups to focus resources on results (Quality, Safety, Cost, TAG and R&D) associated with assigned projects and “own” the results associated with the project for the 1st year.
• Work with the site team to determine capacity and capital requirements for new product initiatives. Develop and manage capital associated with assigned…