Ingredient Specialist

Driven by integrity and united by the people-and-pet bond, we find strong purpose in the work we do and an even greater joy in those we get to work alongside. Together, we harness the expertise of our long-standing tradition of excellence to embrace possibility and continuously push to do what's never been done before in pet care. Discover your purpose and fuel your passions when you bring your love of pets to a team that prides itself on the power of togetherness-We are Proudly Connected.

Purely Driven.

We're a leader in the pet care industry, which means we're not only ahead in volume, profit, and market share, we're at the forefront of innovative product and process development that's allowing us to lead the march in pushing pet nutrition forward. Your larger team (the Technical Services group) creates the flavors, shapes, and textures often developed in marketing and brought to life through innovative engineering.

As an Ingredient Specialist, you'll be responsible for qualifying new raw materials, suppliers, and providing technical support to existing suppliers. Identify and lead ingredient-related and quality improvement projects. You'll work on fast-paced, multi-functional teams focused on getting new ingredients and new vendors in support of NPPC strategies and providing technical support to NPPC factories.

• Support development and implementation of new and existing ingredients to support existing products and develop new products, based on our state-of-the-art food technology.
• Work with the factory to manage product specifications with the appropriate, nutritional, regulatory, and analytical requirements. Also includes issuing to manufacturing plant and maintaining as needed.
• Coordinate qualification of new raw materials and/or suppliers and act as ingredient lead for all assigned ingredients/raw materials which includes understanding raw material and manufacturing process and acting as a technical resource for Procurement's project plans and timelines.
• Provide technical expertise within "discipline" to R&D, Legal, Regulatory, Consumer Marketing, Purchasing, QA, CDG, HR, Plants, US Management, and other groups as it relates to business unit objectives.
• Collaboratively and proactively keep management and key team project members apprised of issues, risks, timing, and contingencies relevant to technical and business success.
• Proactively monitor and provide ingredient maintenance for assigned ingredient portfolio responsibilities, using standardized scientific procedures and capability studies to support product performance.
• Work closely with the factory, product developers and quality to establish new ingredient and ingredient process specifications.

Understand and effectively use Purina systems and tools required for scheduling activity and tests, collecting and analyzing data, and completing and disseminating accurate reports.

• Bachelor's degree in food science, animal science, or related scientific field
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain, product/ingredient development, environmental sustainability, food science, or related environment
• 30-40% travel

• Knowledge of grain, soy, plant protein, or fish science preferred

Salary: $70,930.80 to$ per year

Bonus Eligibility:

Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or…