Scientist - Product Development

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Working in the NA Sweet Biscuit Category Jewels & Away From Home Team to deliver the R&D Cross Brand Innovation/Renovation agenda for product development. Scope of work includes Innovation, Renovation & Brand maintenance.

How you will contribute

With the support and guidance of a manager, you will organize and execute projects in line with R&D, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.). You will also write technical reports that will require the analysis and interpretation of results and that lead to conclusions and recommendations and create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market
• Working on teams and independently with the guidance of a manager
• Prioritizing and managing activities
• Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently
• Applying fundamental technical understanding to interpret and analyze data to reach clear conclusions
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing
• Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

With the support and guidance of your manager and technical experts, you will leverage your technical and executional knowledge gathered thus far to effectively drive the Innovation agenda. You will execute projects as part of a cross functional team, ensuring R&D processes and requirements are met, and effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct lab, pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.). You will ensure specification excellence and work in ION, to identify and lock ingredients and formulas based on scale up feasibility, optimization, regulatory/quality/safety constraints.

You will work with your R&D partners to identify and execute consumer and technical learning path; trouble shoot and create rigorous action plans for resolution. You will effectively communicate with your manager to ask for help when needed, outline issues and barriers to solve for. You will also be the go-to R&D for the working team and therefore will communicate effectively with cross functional partners including commercial, manufacturing, and supply chain teams. You will connect with peers and technical experts to seek guidance as appropriate, you will apply technical rigor tools such as TRL, risk management, reporting, as well as digital tools such as Power BI, AIPD, etc.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Problem Solving: ability to problem solve within your domain, generating technically sound hypothesis and action plans with the support of peer and experts. Ability to handle everyday challenges independently, while seeking guidance from senior colleagues for more complex issues.
• Innovation: Managing multiple Innovation initiatives such as Line extensions or new proven platforms, while applying strong commercialization skills and adapting to consumer, project, marketing demands. Ability to manage some level of ambiguity while seeking for help when appropriate without getting frustrated; able to work with team to identify learning plan and appropriate timeline to execute with excellence. Present Risks and Mitigations and ability to flex and adapt while still holding team to excellence. Ability to work with risk, bringing proposal to solve roadblocks.
• Communication: Strong communication skills particularly when it comes to Keeping Manager abreast of any issues and next steps and regularly asks for help as appropriate to remove barriers, influence, tailor message, tell the story; Good presentation skills and able to presents to upper management, with varying degrees of autonomy
• Mentorship: Independently and proactively Seeks technical expert and SMEs advise on projects technical issues, processes, procedures.  Always looking to improve technical expertise and learn from others. Helps Jr scientists grow in their day to day.
• Behaviors: Takes action, Accountable, Organized, Scientific Reasoning, applies technical rigor, Growth Mindset, Adaptable, Independent but seeks advice, help as appropriate. Varying degrees of Commercialization skills, Consumer Drive, Curious, Good communication skills

Education / Certifications:

Bachelor´s degree required in Food Science or relative.

Job specific requirements:

4 years minimum of experience in the Food Industry in Product Development required.

Travel requirements:

Ability to travel up to 20-30% of the time, on average, with both domestic and international travel possible**.**  flexibility to travel to Mexico, Canada and within US.

Work schedule:

This is a full-time role based in East Hanover, NJ with in-office expectations of 3 days per week. 

Salary and Benefits:

The base salary range for this position is $77,600 to $106,700; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and  Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.  

Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.

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Job Type

Regular

Product development

Science & Engineering