Senior Beverage Scientist - Powders

Chicago, IL

Posted: 10/16/2023 Industry: Laboratory - Food & Beverage Job Number: 229.23MH Remote Friendly: Experience:

Job Description

Senior Beverage Scientist – Powders

Innovative company, state of the art labs, fast paced work environment: seeking a senior scientist with expertise in product development of powdered beverages and the ability to work on high profile, priority projects.

Seeking a Senior Beverage Scientist with 7-10 years of experience developing food and/or beverage products to join our Product Development team.  This position emphasizes full product development, as well as flavor application efforts across a wide variety of beverage forms with a strong emphasis on powders.  Shelf-life execution and overall program management will also be a focus, especially in regard to powders.  The ideal candidate will be a positive, energetic team player and hands-on person with a passion for working on the bench to develop innovative products.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Product Development Scientists, Flavor Chemists and other R&D teammates to design best in class product formulations that exceed the expectations of our customers
  • Create and execute studies to evaluate shelf life of products, based on results, recommend shelf life for products, or execute further studies to determine root cause of the failure
  • Refine and manage the shelf-life program to efficiently and accurately deliver results based on customer shelf-life needs as well as internal learning and development
  • Act as the powder science Subject Matter Expert (SME) on staff and provide input as either a lead on consultant on projects from ideation to commercialization
  • Design formulations and manufacturing instructions that result in products that meet the specific organoleptic, stability, nutritional and regulatory demands of our customers
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and new ingredients & technologies and leverage that knowledge to develop ingredient systems enabling improved innovation offerings
  • Use strong working knowledge of ingredient functionality and product development best practices to create great tasting, safe and stable powdered beverage products
  • Ability to lead a team of other technical teammates dedicated to the same project in order to meet customer expectations and deadlines
  • Design formulations for customer demonstrations that emphasize current trends and new ingredient technologies

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Mary Harris-Rigas at maryr@cps4jobs.com.

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Job Requirements

Technical Qualifications:

  • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Food or Chemical Engineering or related field
  • 7-10 years of food and/or beverage industry experience
  • Experience in the development and launch of beverage products beyond simple prototype development. Must understand the impact of plant processing on beverages and be able to design formulations accordingly
  • Subject matter expert on powdered beverage formulation and shelf-life; must be well versed in powder science and how to develop and execute complex powdered formulations from development to commercialization
  • A strong teammate willing to work together on the bench with other R&D scientists to design optimal beverage & flavor formulations
  • Apt at synthesizing scientific principles and large data sets into easy-to-understand language
  • Self-motivated with the ability to lead projects and programs with minimal guidance from leadership
  • Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the lab
  • Deep knowledge of powdered ingredients including (but not limited to) potential uses, stability considerations and dosing information
  • Comfortable potentially managing 1-2 junior associates and acting as a consultant on projects lead by junior associates
  • Strong communication skills. Must have the ability to confidently communicate complex technical information to customers as well as colleagues
  • Must be comfortable with a high amount of customer-facing engagement, especially when communicating scientific concepts to a non-technical audience
  • Ability to successfully handle high project load in a fast-paced environment with quickly changing priorities

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Mary Harris-Rigas at maryr@cps4jobs.com.

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