Senior Food Scientist: Value Added Cooked Meats
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Food Scientist: Value Added Cooked Meats will coordinate, align and innovate by exploring, developing and implementing new and existing products. In this position, you will provide technical expertise related to formulation and new product development of value-added cooked meat products. Additional, responsibilities will include the technology/process development for these products. This position identifies and implements technical solutions against business goals.
Key Accountabilities
Identify product growth and new product opportunities, modifying plans to meet opportunities.
Stay current with literature and analytical advancements and works with independently on daily tasks.
Provide technical leadership in product and process development and improvement, quality systems and regulatory oversight.
Develop and implement innovation roadmap market plans including market and innovation plans aligned to the business strategy.
Work with cross functional teams that include marketing, insights, sales, ops, food safety quality and regulatory.
Collaborate with research and commercial brand to develop short and long term testing programs for experimental and commercial products and hybrids.
Partner with sales, business management and marketing partners to identify customer needs and translate these into new product development opportunities.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Animal, Meat/Food Science or related field.
Minimum of four years of related work experience
Ability to work in a cold environment and lift up to 30lbs.
Ability to travel up to 25%.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree or other post-secondary degree.
Demonstrated financial and business acumen.
Minimum of six years' experience with cooked meat products: formulating, processing, sensory evaluation, shelf life, etc.
Experience working in a manufacturing or operations environment.
Experience with experimental design, statistical modeling and interpretation of data.
Strategic thinker with the ability to build effective plans to support business strategies and goals.
Experience working successfully in a matrixed organization.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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