Senior Scientist, Product Development - Snack Seasonings (107775)

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs spices seasonings and condiments and were only getting started. At McCormick were always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees all 14000 of us across the world are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire aSenior Scientist Product Developmentimmediately at our Technical Innovation Center in Hunt Valley Maryland.

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits youd expect from a global leader (401k health insurance paid time off etc.) we also offer:

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

We prioritize our communities and the planet we share. We are proud to be awarded as a Diversity Inc. Top 50 company for Diversity and have multiple Sustainability awards (ranking #22 in the World and #1 in Food Products)

Wellbeing programs including Physical Mental and Financial wellness

Tuition assistance

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Product Development Scientist will support one of our top strategic customers through development of seasonings to meet specific sensory and functional attributes. Reporting to the Director the Scientist will be part of a highly creative and collaborative product development team with a strong emphasis of customer partnership. This Scientist will also interact with other functional areas such as regulatory operations and quality assurance to meet and maintain all seasoning design requirements. The Scientist will leverage McCormicks world class innovation and corporate technical resources to drive consumer preferred solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide snack seasonings product development support for customers to include building and sustaining relationships within the core customer development teams
• Guide technical excellence and differentiationthrough robust product design leveraging technology and implementing feedback from internal and external resources in an everchanging environment
• Create marketpreferred snack seasonings through bench top product development leveraging culinary input technical innovation and consumer insights.
• Guide customer requests by interacting with a broad multifunctional teamto provide best in class solutions
• Conducting plant trials at McCormick locations

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 10 years of product development experience in the food industry. Must have seasoning development experience with good understanding from design to scale up.
• Bachelors Degree in Food Science/Technology Food Engineering Chemistry or a related field

• Strong understanding of consumer and general sensory testing including its application to product development
• Experience collecting and interpreting scientific data including sensory analytical and commercialization
• Experience effectively collaborating across levels and functions within own organization and with outside customers and vendors
• Ability and willingness to travel 10% to 20%
• Proven success multitasking in a fastpaced environment
• High degree of ownership and professional commitment
• Desire and ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of people
• Good written and verbal communication skills to interact effectively with external and internal customers
• Curiosity and innovative thinking
• Proven ability to interpret scientific data including sensory and analytical and commercialization

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MS Degree and/or PhD in a related field

• Experience with SAP product formulary and retrieval systems
• Culinary interest or related training
• Proficiency in vendor management and development including the implementation of new ingredients as required

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

Base Salary: $86390 to $151220

Base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location skills education experience for this role and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormicks Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan. In addition to a competitive compensation package permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:

Comprehensive health plans covering medical vision dental life and disability benefits

Familyfriendly benefits such as paid parental leave fertility benefits Employee Assistance Program and caregiver support

Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profitsharing plans