Heritage-Inspired Food Product Innovator

Siete Foods; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking a chef/product developer/food technologist to craft heritage-inspired foods with inclusive dietary profiles. You will partner with cross-functional teams to translate flavor and texture into scalable products.

You will manage formulation from research to launch, assist ingredient sourcing, document formulas, and travel up to 25% to support suppliers and co-manufacturers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a chef or product developer/food technologist.
• Proficiency with Excel or Google Docs is preferred.
• Previous experience with food labeling software such as Genesis is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create innovative, heritage-inspired food that is dietarily inclusive.
• Be the champion for flavor, texture, and clean labels in our products, helping scale without allowing our scaling processes to compromise these attributes.
• Support the formulation process from start to finish including research and planning, development and refinement, launching the product.
• Work cross-functionally with the Operational team and co-manufacturing partners to gather manufacturing processing and equipment information.
• Test/Assist benchtop ingredient sourcing and develop basic initial raw material specifications throughout the formulation process.
• Work with R&D team to scale products: set production process, maximize shelf life, and overcome any technical roadblocks for your project.
• Develop bench-top samples to present to different functions of the company as well as outside of the company.
• Support formula documentation and records across various systems (e.g. TraceGains, Trustwell Genesis) throughout development.
• Assist the Innovation and Renovation initiatives of the company to help create new products and renovate existing ones, as needed.
• Contribute culinary expertise and knowledge to guide and accelerate the development and reformulation of new and current products.
• Travel approximately 25% of the time to support supplier and co-manufacturing relations, plant trials, and provide on-site support as needed.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Multi-tasking

Problem solving

Self-starter

Collaboration

Communication

Culinary creativity

Tools

Excel

Google Docs

Genesis

Job description

PepsiCo is seeking a chef/product developer/food technologist to craft heritage-inspired foods with inclusive dietary profiles. You will partner with cross-functional teams to translate flavor and texture into scalable products.

You will manage formulation from research to launch, assist ingredient sourcing, document formulas, and travel up to 25% to support suppliers and co-manufacturers.