Product Formulation Scientist

Product Formulation Scientist

There is an exciting opportunity to join the R&D team within the innovation function as the Product Formulation Scientist. The position is responsible for maintaining the competitiveness of the C&T product portfolio of Pet Nutrition North America in terms of nutritional compliance shelf-life & pet product performance as well as enabling delivery of CSL in partnership with Supply & Commercial through recipe reformulation site troubleshooting support NSQs (New Supplier Qualifications) and addressing business continuity and resilience initiatives. The position also performs critical contributions to the Value leadership & Climate programs of Pet Nutrition North America.

What are we looking for

• Bachelors degree in Food Science Engineering or Chemistry

• Experience in a Food Manufacturing environment working in Quality Food Safety Engineering or Product/Process development.

• 4 years of experience in R&D Product Development and/or Formulation within the pet industry.

• Knowledge of product development and formulation from bench top to production & commercialization.

• Prior experience must include functionality of raw materials product design use of formulation systems and product maintenance in an operating environment.

• Strong ability to work cross functionally with people in other disciplines and/or business areas.

What will be your key responsibilities

• Formulate & deliver product recipes of current portfolio to the PNNA factory network for the C&T technology to enable manufacturing of products that are safe legal and compliant with the corresponding finished product specification (including short-term raw material shortages & controlled recipe changes in collaboration with Supply & Commercial).

• Own Product/Formulation deliverables for prioritized NSQs (New Supplier Qualifications).

• Own Product/Formulation deliverables for prioritized business continuity initiatives including those related to Technical Risk Assessments & Concessions.

• Own Product/Formulation deliverables for prioritized resilience initiatives.

• Run quarterly recipe optimization program and report on quality and cost.

• Lead agreed Value Leadership projects.

• Actively participate in Value Leadership (VL) pipeline generation owning the VL Formulation target and plan.

• Lead agreed CAP (Climate Action Plan) projects.

• Actively participate in Climate Action Plan pipeline generation led by Commercial.

• Drive verification of finished product nutritional compliance across time through definition & execution of the Sentinels program (including corresponding reformulation).

• Drive verification of finished product shelf life as per applicable technical standard.

• Collaborate with Process-CB and site-based PPIs to support factory troubleshooting following the site escalation process.

• Drive gap closure (including RCA Root Cause Analysis) for PPP (Pet Product Performance) outages identified in the annual monitoring program (palatability digestibility feces quality) in collaboration with Q&FS Process-CB and CTI.

• As needed consult Product Formulation to define gap closure strategies when root cause goes beyond existing framework.

What can you expect from Mars

• Work with diverse and talented Associates all guided by the Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow today.

• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package including company bonus.

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