Scientist - Product Development

Job Description

Working in the NA Sweet Biscuit Category Jewels & Away From Home Team to deliver the R&D Cross Brand Innovation/Renovation agenda for product development. Scope of work includes Innovation, Renovation & Brand maintenance.

With the support and guidance of a manager, you will organize and execute projects in line with R&D, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf‑life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.). You will also write technical reports that will require the analysis and interpretation of results and that lead to conclusions and recommendations and create and maintain accurate consumer‑led specifications.

• Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast‑moving consumer goods market
• Working on teams and independently with the guidance of a manager
• Prioritizing and managing activities
• Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently
• Applying fundamental technical understanding to interpret and analyze data to reach clear conclusions
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing
• Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

What you need to know about this position:

With the support and guidance of your manager and technical experts, you will leverage your technical and executional knowledge gathered thus far to effectively drive the Innovation agenda. You will execute projects as part of a cross‑functional team, ensuring R&D processes and requirements are met, and effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct lab, pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf‑life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.).

You will ensure specification excellence and work in ION, to identify and lock ingredients and formulas based on scale‑up feasibility, optimization, regulatory/quality/safety constraints.

You will work with your R&D partners to identify and execute consumer and technical learning path; troubleshoot and create rigorous action plans for resolution. You will effectively communicate with your manager to ask for help when needed, outline issues and barriers to solve for. You will also be the go‑to R&D for the working team and therefore will communicate effectively with cross‑functional partners including commercial, manufacturing, and supply‑chain teams.

You will connect with peers and technical experts to seek guidance as appropriate, you will apply technical rigor tools such as TRL, risk management, reporting, as well as digital tools such as Power BI, AIPD, etc.

• Problem Solving
  : ability to problem solve within your domain, generating technically sound hypothesis and action plans with the support of peer and experts. Ability to handle everyday challenges independently, while seeking guidance from senior colleagues for more complex issues.
• Innovation: Managing multiple Innovation initiatives such as Line extensions or new proven platforms, while applying strong commercialization skills and adapting to consumer, project, marketing demands. Ability to manage some level of ambiguity while seeking for help when appropriate without getting frustrated; able to work with team to identify learning plan and appropriate timeline to execute with excellence. Present Risks and Mitigations and ability to flex and adapt while still holding team to excellence.
  
  Ability to work with risk, bringing proposal to solve roadblocks.
• Communication: Strong communication skills particularly when it comes to Keeping Manager abreast of any issues and next steps and regularly asks for help as appropriate to remove barriers, influence, tailor message, tell the story;
  Good presentation skills and able to presents to upper management, with…