Convenience Food Applications Scientist at Cargill in Plymouth, Minnesota

Job Description:

Cargill

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT

Do you have a passion for working as a Food Scientist? Want to work for a global company that values excellence? Would you love working in a hardworking team of dedicated professionals? We are looking for someone like you. The Convenience Food Applications Scientist will coordinate, align and innovate through exploration, development and implementation of new and existing products. We seek an experienced professional to provide technical expertise to new product development for product line growth and technology/process development for the creation of new capabilities. In this role, you will identify and implement technical solutions to meet business goals.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Identify product growth and new product opportunities.


• Analyze and interpret market data to take advantage of opportunities and minimize adverse trends.


• Stay abreast of current literature and analytical advancements.


• Provide technical guidance and leadership on products, process development and improvement, quality systems, and regulatory oversight.


• Partner and stay connected with cross-functional teams (marketing, insights, sales, ops, food safety quality and regulatory).


• Provide findings and analysis with insights, research and commercial brand to develop short and long-term testing programs for experimental and commercial products and hybrids.


• Collaborate and build partnership with sales, business management, and marketing partners to identify customer needs and translate these into new product development opportunities.


• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience


• Experience working in a manufacturing environment


• Operations experience


• Prior experience in product development


• Two or more years combined professional experience in the following areas: protein formulation development, ingredient functionality and product commercialization.


• Minimum of two years of related work experience


• Proficiency in Microsoft office package

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or other post-secondary degree


• Tech-savvy and comfortable with evolving business-critical technology


• Strategic thinker with ability to build effective plans to support strategic initiatives


• Experience conducting continuous improvement events such as Kaizen, Six Sigma or Lean processes


• Experience working successfully in a matrixed organization


• Thermal processing experience or retort processing experience