Sr. Scientist, Product Formulation CB - Dry
Core
Maintaining competitiveness of Dry pet nutrition product portfolio through nutritional compliance, shelf-life management, and product performance optimization.
Role type
Senior Scientist, Product Formulation
Builds
Dry pet food recipes and formulations for factory network manufacturing
Domain
Pet Nutrition / Food Science
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Product development and formulation, raw material functionality, formulation systems, product maintenance, recipe optimization, nutritional compliance verification, shelf-life testing, root cause analysis, factory troubleshooting, mentoring
Preferred skills
Graduate degree in Food Science/Technology/Engineering/Animal Science
Technologies
Formulation systems, recipe management tools
Responsibilities
Formulate and deliver product recipes for the Dry technology portfolio, own deliverables for New Supplier Qualifications (NSQs), lead business continuity and resilience initiatives, run quarterly recipe optimization programs, lead Value Leadership and Climate Action Plan projects, verify finished product nutritional compliance and shelf life, support factory troubleshooting and gap closure for product performance outages, mentor junior R&D associates
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship