Pet Product Innovator — R&D & Formulation

Nestle; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 81,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé is seeking a Product Development Specialist in Missouri to drive pet-care product development, scale-up, and process improvements for wet and dry products. You’ll work with marketing, manufacturing and suppliers to qualify new materials and lead initiatives from concept to market.

The role requires a strong food formulation background, 3+ years of experience (or 7+ with HS), and ~50% travel. Nestlé offers incentives, a robust benefits package, and opportunities to impact shelf-ready

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of product development experience if HS diploma.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, scale up, and implementation of new and existing technologies to improve the performance of existing products 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

Skills

Product development

Scale-up

Formulation

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Nestlé is seeking a Product Development Specialist in Missouri to drive pet-care product development, scale-up, and process improvements for wet and dry products. You’ll work with marketing, manufacturing and suppliers to qualify new materials and lead initiatives from concept to market.

The role requires a strong food formulation background, 3+ years of experience (or 7+ with HS), and ~50% travel. Nestlé offers incentives, a robust benefits package, and opportunities to impact shelf-ready