Overview
The R&D Product Development Principal Scientist leads new product innovation enabling near and long-term growth for Quaker North America (Canada and US). To deliver this the individual will be identifying opportunities, solving technical challenges, engaging the cross functional teams, influence the stakeholders and executing the projects to ensure business commitments across the Quaker Foods North America organization.
The Quaker portfolio is a broad portfolio across many technology platforms and product categories including Breakfast Cereals, Snacks including Granola Bars and Baked Goods, Savoury Light Snacks, Baking and Pancake mixes and Foodservice products. This role is specifically responsible for the bars category, acting as a driver of strategic project objectives to drive growth for the overall business.
This role works in partnership with Global R&D partners and subject experts in building, leveraging and executing leading product design, utilize appropriate available technology, ingredient and consumer solutions, to enable the project objectives
Responsibilities
- Independently deliver elements of consumer centric new product design, development, commercialization, and limited post-launch support for key AOP deliverables.
- Provide technical & business risk assessment, and perspectives related to product/process changes to ensure products are safe, stable, and legal.
- Leverage R&D and external expert network to ensure deep and broad knowledge of Quaker business, category platforms and technology levers.
- Drive R&D agenda with cross functional teams both internally in R&D and within the business.
- Design and execute experiments, and analyze / interpret data to make sound technical recommendations on product and process issues
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Develop and lead research activities, works safely and according to all safety and quality procedures and policies, and proactively contributes to safety observations.
- Demonstrates ability to understand application of consumer research and experimental design to project objectives
- Establish deep and broad knowledge of Quaker business, category platforms and technology levers
- Perform basic economic evaluations on ingredients, ingredient suppliers, and product formulations
- Provide technical and business risk assessment and perspectives related to product/process changes
Qualifications
- BS in Chemical/Food Engineering, Material Science, Food/Dairy Science, Chemistry or other related applied science/engineering/technology disciplines; Master or PhD, prefferred.
- 7+ years’ experience with a CPG, Food and Beverage, or Ingredient Supplier company
- Knowledge in Grains processing technologies or product development preferred.
- Experience in managing a team and developing people
- Effective Communication skills to work with the whole value chain of the company.
- Agenda Management
- Ability and interest to work in laboratory, pilot plant and manufacturing scale environments
- Business Oriented
- Self-management
- Data collection, interpretation and management.
- Preferred: Project Management skills: FTE calculations, RACI matrix, Critical Paths, Gantt Charts, Resource management.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role. Please note that all such company vaccine requirements provide the opportunity to request an approved accommodation or exemption under applicable law.
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