Schwan's Company

Description

(Overview)

Schwan’s Company, a U.S. affiliate of the global lifestyle company, CJ CheilJedang Corporation, is a leading U.S. manufacturer and marketer of quality foods offered through retail-grocery and food-service channels. Our many popular brands include Red Baron®, Tony’s®, Big Daddy’s®, Villa Prima™ and Freschetta® pizza; Mrs. Smith’s® and Edwards® desserts; and Pagoda® and Bibigo Asian-style snacks. Schwan’s is a place for people with an appetite for more.  To learn about joining a team where you can belong, contribute, and thrive, visit www.schwanscompany.com

We are seeking a Senior Food Scientist to join our Product Development team in Marshall, MN. This R&D role is responsible for developing and supporting innovation and new categories in our frozen food portfolio.  You will have the opportunity to grow your technical leadership working with a cross functional team including Marketing, Sales, and Operations. You'll be tasked with development of new, innovative products, renovating current products and improving operational efficiencies.  Technical curiosity and creative problem-solving skills are a must for this dynamic and influential role.

What you will get from us:

• Opportunities for career growth with one of THE fastest growing food companies in the US.
• A culture focused on building trust, challenging assumptions, and continuous transformation.
• Great mentors and colleagues who will help you grow in technical leadership, project management and processes of Product Development.
• Time to innovate and create at the bench-top all the way to commercialization.
• A supportive and flexible environment.

Responsibilities: 

• Supports innovation in the development of new ideas, new products or new product platforms through ideation sessions and bench top experimentation, along with the ability to effectively communicate the concept.
• Provides advanced technical solutions to production issues as it relates to ingredient, formulas, processing procedures, and specifications to ensure continuous production of new and existing products to maintain product quality and safety.
• Develops experimental formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for raw ingredients, subassemblies, and finished products for product innovation and renovation that meet project parameters of established pricing, marketing goals, food regulations, and operational feasibility.
• Organizes and manages complex test runs to validate or modify experimental formulas and processing procedures to develop final specifications and ensure reproducibility of finished products and subassemblies.
• Establishes team and works with team members to ensure successful start-ups of product innovation and renovation as well as ingredient, formula, specification, or process changes.
• Evaluates ingredients and processing techniques to identify and commercialize product improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
• Evaluates, confirms acceptability, creates/updates specifications and implements proposed ingredients or process for supplier optimization.
• Documents all work according to established procedures and guidelines, provides timely and effective oral and written communication and prepares various project reports to team and project leader to ensure complete communication of project status, progress, issues, solutions, timeline, and accountability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign) or equivalent in Food Science, Meat Science, Cereal Science, Dairy Science, Food & Nutrition Studies, Biological Sciences, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and/or product development experience.
• Ideally 5+ years product development experience 
• Solid knowledge and understanding of food ingredients, food chemistry, food processing, and food functionality

• Hands-on experience with frozen food product formulations is highly desirable:
• Comfort with working independently and as part of onsite and virtual teams

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and offer solutions
• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to taste and ingest any type of food product currently under development
• Advanced PC skills including Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint

The employing subsidiaries of Schwan’s Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin or other protected class.

Job Type: Full-time Business Unit: Req #: 24-2120

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