Pet Food Product Innovator

Nestlé Purina North America; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 81,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Nestlé Purina North America seeks a Product Development Specialist to drive wet and dry pet food innovations within our Technical Services team. You will develop flavors, shapes, and textures, qualify raw materials, and support manufacturing with scale-up and process improvements.

Responsibilities include cost-reduction ideas, project planning with marketing, and collaboration with suppliers. Travel about 50% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
• 3+ years of product development, formulation and scale-up experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, scale up, and implementation of new and existing technologies to improve product performance and develop new products.
• Explore innovative applications of pet food product/process possibilities based on current state-of-the-art food technology.
• Serve as technical resource for marketing to develop a robust pipeline of product development opportunities with clear project plans and timelines.
• Support product formulation including ingredients, nutritional, regulatory and analytical requirements.
• Proactively monitor and provide product maintenance for assigned product responsibilities using standardized scientific procedures.
• Initiate and implement cost reduction ideas for assigned product lines and factories.
• Approximately 50% travel required.

Skills

Product development

Food formulation

Scale-up

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Nestlé Purina North America seeks a Product Development Specialist to drive wet and dry pet food innovations within our Technical Services team. You will develop flavors, shapes, and textures, qualify raw materials, and support manufacturing with scale-up and process improvements.

Responsibilities include cost-reduction ideas, project planning with marketing, and collaboration with suppliers. Travel about 50% is required.