Food Scientist, Product Development
MycoTechnology
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Aurora, CO, USA
Posted on Oct 17, 2024
Position Purpose:
The Food Scientist, Product Development, is responsible for developing prototypes and products across
the Food & Beverages and confectionary categories. The Food Scientist, Product Development, will
partner with the R&D and commercial teams to identify and deliver consumer-centric, winning products
to support the growth agenda of the company. They will partner with other product developers and
scientists within the United States to ensure brand technical innovation is developed and new products
with points of differentiation are delivered to support the values of unrivaled quality, creativity, and
innovation across our product portfolio and categories, especially in the field of sugar reduction,
sweeteners & FMPs.
Essential Duties:
proteins manufactured using precision fermentation platform.
and distributors.
sweeteners and FMPs.
responsibility and leadership accountability with a minimum of 1 year managing product
programs and people.
zero calorie beverages & focusing on sugar reduction technologies and formulations.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have supervisory responsibilities in the next 1-2 years.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; usehands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Be able to bend and squat while performing duties. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the
position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform related duties, as assigned by their
supervisor.
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The Food Scientist, Product Development, is responsible for developing prototypes and products across
the Food & Beverages and confectionary categories. The Food Scientist, Product Development, will
partner with the R&D and commercial teams to identify and deliver consumer-centric, winning products
to support the growth agenda of the company. They will partner with other product developers and
scientists within the United States to ensure brand technical innovation is developed and new products
with points of differentiation are delivered to support the values of unrivaled quality, creativity, and
innovation across our product portfolio and categories, especially in the field of sugar reduction,
sweeteners & FMPs.
Essential Duties:
- Work within a strong team of food and beverage product developers, scientists, engineers, and
- Catalyze the development of new products, processes, and technologies that have application in
proteins manufactured using precision fermentation platform.
- Explore new processes, formulation, and ingredient technology solutions to deliver
- Partner with commercial teams to deliver innovation, renovation, and sustainability metrics
- Be the point of contact from technology to commercial teams for providing technical support for
and distributors.
- Work with other Applications Scientists to evaluate scope of use for new ingredients across
- Screen pre-existing food and beverage products with our ingredients and develop prototypes for
- Execute and deliver the innovation agenda for sugar reduction in food & beverages,
- Work within a team of Applications scientists to build capabilities and tools to create new and
sweeteners and FMPs.
- Work cross functionally with Sensory team to complete necessary testing throughout the
- Responsible for effective ways of working with pilot plants to increase productivity and
- Lead the selection of key new vendors with procurement and maintain strong relationships with
- Collaborate closely with all relevant stakeholders to support operational excellence in scaling
- Communicating the technical and commercial needs of an applications team to developers and
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's degree in food science or engineering required; Master's degree in food science or
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in product design/development of sweeteners (preferably in
responsibility and leadership accountability with a minimum of 1 year managing product
programs and people.
- Demonstrate ability to work in cross functional teams involving marketing, sales, purchasing,
- Technical depth and relevant experience in food sciences, technology, and processing. Most
zero calorie beverages & focusing on sugar reduction technologies and formulations.
- General knowledge of the processes within marketing, industrial design, production, supply
- Strong commercial acumen, technical development skills, judgment and understanding of the
- Ability to create a roadmap for short term and long-term technical deliverables and skills to
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent business skills and understanding of the levers of R&D
- Self-starter, autonomous, and demonstrated ability to bring disruptive and innovative ideas
- Detail-oriented and possesses strong organization and strong analytical skills
- Travel 10-20%. Must be available to travel to various customer meetings, tradeshows, technical
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have supervisory responsibilities in the next 1-2 years.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; usehands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Be able to bend and squat while performing duties. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the
position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform related duties, as assigned by their
supervisor.
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