Pet Product Development Specialist

Nestlé Purina North America; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 63,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Benefits package

Job summary

Nestlé Purina North America in Saint Louis, MO, seeks a Product Development Associate to bring ideas to life for both wet and dry pet foods. In the Technical Services group, you’ll create the flavors, shapes, and textures often innovated in marketing and so enjoyed by pets.

Come prepared to handle various intermediate-term product developments and engineering processes for the business, as well as provide technical support to manufacturing operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a science or related field.
• 6+ months of experience in product development (food), formulation and scale-up experience, or related.
• Alternate pathway: High School Diploma/GED with 4+ years of product development experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Product development experience

Formulation & scale-up

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Nestlé Purina North America in Saint Louis, MO, seeks a Product Development Associate to bring ideas to life for both wet and dry pet foods. In the Technical Services group, you’ll create the flavors, shapes, and textures often innovated in marketing and so enjoyed by pets.

Come prepared to handle various intermediate-term product developments and engineering processes for the business, as well as provide technical support to manufacturing operations.