Senior Food Scientist RTD

Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN) is the number one sports nutrition company in the world, with leading brands in performance and lifestyle nutrition. Our mission is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. From athletes to remote workers, people around the world want to eat well and live healthier, more active lives. Our award-winning performance and lifestyle brands include Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, BSN, think!

bars, Amazing Grass and more. Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance, eat more protein-rich foods, or lose weight, we have a product to match.

We are hiring a Senior Food Scientist on development and commercialization of ready-to-drink products as well as ready to mix powders.

Responsibilities include:

• Formulate and develop ready to drink beverages and ready to mix powder beverages. Includes: formulation, ingredient evaluation & validation, preliminary costing and preparing nutritional and supplement facts panels.
• Organize sensory panels. Refine formulations until desired characteristics are achieved.
• Innovate and create prototypes by experimenting with diverse formulations and flavor profiles. Transform initial concepts into products that excel in taste, functionality, and quality
• Manage/execute pilot plant and scale-up manufacturing trials and initiate analytical testing for raw materials and prototypes.
• Drive reformulation efforts to comply with evolving government regulations, customer demands, or cost constraints.
• Document all ingredient specifications, formulations, variables tested, product stability, and other pertinent details and enters into lab notebooks and Formula Management System.
• Produce formula cost information; works with purchasing, finance, and sales teams to help establish final product pricing; initiates new item documents and set-up for all product introductions.
• Work with Regulatory to generate and align on compliant Supplement/Nutrition facts panels and ingredient listings.
• Identify & overcome barriers to successful innovation by developing strong interdepartmental relationships with customer, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, quality, packaging, and purchasing teams.
• Understand customer needs, business needs, and business strategy, consumer trends, and category landscape of competitive products.
• Work with key suppliers and purchasing team to stay on top of upcoming trends, novel ingredients, and new application ideas.

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, or related field
• 7 years of relevant experience working in the food, beverage, or dietary supplement industry
• Advanced knowledge in ready to drink beverage formulation along with manufacturing equipment for beverage production and aseptic manufacturing.
• Problem-solve while looking through both a technical and business lens, always ready to think outside the box and inspire your team with innovative solutions.
• Potentially manage and develop 1 to 2 direct reports and their projects

The opportunity will be based in Downers Grove, IL with hybrid working arrangements available through our Smart working model which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance. We offer the opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in IL. The annual salary for IL based employees for this role is $95-130K with an annual bonus.

This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.