Material & Recipe Management Specialist; Remote

Material Recipe Management Specialist

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

Position Summary

The Material Recipe Management Specialist leads formulation and recipe lifecycle management for Nestlé VMS products, ensuring formulations are compliant, manufacturable, and aligned with business requirements. This role develops, maintains, and governs product recipes and specifications within SAP, supporting accurate labeling, regulatory compliance, and efficient manufacturing execution. The position plays a critical role in bringing new products to market, maintaining product quality and compliance, and reducing formulation complexity through standardization and harmonization of recipes, ingredients, and specifications.

Working closely with CTAG, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Global MRM, and other cross-functional partners, this role helps drive operational efficiency, product consistency, and business growth across the VMS portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead factory-level Material & Recipe Management activities, ensuring compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements
• Manage recipe, ingredient, and specification life cycles in SAP, ensuring data accuracy, governance, and alignment with approval workflows and change control processes
• Monitor product compliance performance and KPIs, drive corrective actions, and support achievement of global compliance targets
• Execute Compliance by Design activities for innovation, renovation, and business maintenance projects, including formulation development, recipe validation, technical acceptance, and CAT specification creation
• Review and maintain recipes following trials and commercialization activities, monitoring product performance and implementing formulation updates as needed
• Create and maintain site recipes, Bills of Material (BOMs), processing loss profiles, stability loss profiles, and raw material specifications
• Ensure raw material and product specifications are accurate, current, and supported by qualification, testing, and supplier data
• Serve as the factory subject matter expert for recipe, ingredient, and product compliance, providing guidance on regulatory, nutritional, safety, and quality requirements
• Support implementation and continuous improvement of MRM systems, tools, and processes to enable efficient product scale-up, transfers, and lifecycle management
• Train and support cross-functional teams on Formula1, SAP RM, CAT, Dev Ex, and related recipe management processes
• Partner with Global MRM, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Operations, CTAG, and other stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and harmonization initiatives

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Nutrition, or comparable experience

3+ years of experience in a regulated industry such as food, pharmaceuticals,…