Associate Scientist, Product Formulation CB - Wet
Core
Maintaining competitiveness of Wet pet nutrition product portfolio through nutritional compliance, shelf-life verification, and product performance optimization.
Role type
Associate Scientist, Product Formulation
Builds
Safe, legal, and compliant finished pet food products for the PNNA factory network
Domain
Pet Nutrition / Food Science
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Food Science, Technology, Engineering, or Animal Science; R&D Product Development; Formulation; Raw material functionality; Product design; Formulation systems; Product maintenance
Preferred skills
Graduate degree in Food Science, Technology, Engineering, or Animal Science; Pet industry R&D/Formulation experience; Bench-to-production knowledge
Technologies
Formulation systems
Responsibilities
Formulate and deliver product recipes for the Wet technology portfolio; Execute New Supplier Qualifications (NSQs); Execute business continuity and resilience initiatives; Run quarterly recipe optimization and report on quality/cost; Execute Value Leadership and Climate Action Plan projects; Verify finished product nutritional compliance via the Sentinels program; Verify finished product shelf life; Support factory troubleshooting with Process-CB and site-based PPIs; Drive gap closure for Pet Product Performance (PPP) outages including Root Cause Analysis
Seniority
Associate, hands-on IC