Scientist - Scratch Cooking North America

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Background & Purpose of the Job

Cooking Aids & Mini Meals is a critical pillar within Unilever’s Foods business. It houses Knorr, one of Unilever Food’s 2 power brands and second largest global brand. Knorr serves millions of American and Canadian consumers daily, led by its purpose to provide accessible and affordable nutrition to the many.

As a member of the CAMM R&D team, you will both lead and support the R&D activities required to deliver the Cooking Aids & Mini Meals program, ranging from innovation, product superiority and margin enhancement. Specifically in this role, you will support the bouillons pillar, working directly with our global technology teams as well as our local business teams.   You will work as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver the R&D deliverables for the Knorr brand’s business objectives.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

You love to win and have fun doing it:You are passionate about product development, and you are customer/consumer focused. You are comfortable with multi-tasking and operating in a fast paced, multi-faceted, and multi-cultural environment

You’re a dot connector: You are a problem solver: you break an issue into smaller parts to examine them. You build and manage relationships with cross-functional teams, key stakeholders, and strategic vendor partners to enable progress.

You’re a paradox navigator:  You leverage your technical knowledge and experience, awareness of culinary and product trends and consumer insights to deliver superior new products that meet the project and business deliverables.

You’re a changemaker: You can identify and address emerging issues as well as set and manage priorities and continuously improve processes and practices

What you’ll do:

Support/lead projects:

• Execute agreed R&D activities to deliver the brand’s program, ranging from innovation, product superiority and margin enhancement.
• Works as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver projects on time in full.

Develop products:

• Independently design products against simple product briefs, design/execute test protocols for the various technical aspects of projects as required (e.g., prototype development and scale-up, shelf-life testing, analytical testing, etc.)
• Lead the process of specification/label creation in SAP PLM from the request to the approved status.

Provide technical and product guidance

• Actively participate and/or represent R&D in cross functional meetings.
• Assess feasibility of new ideas and troubleshoot activities where formulation knowledge is essential.
• Support technical investigations using root-cause analysis and problem-solving techniques as required for existing and new products.

Establish and maintain internal and external working relationships

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with R&D, Supply Chain and Marketing teams, customers, suppliers, and key stakeholders.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Education/Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Food Science or equivalent degree.
• 2-5 years of experience in the food industry, preferably in product development

Technical Project Management

• Ability to independently execute tasks and projects with moderate complexity
• Ability to develop, plan, conduct, and coordinate prototype development initiatives across multiple projects/tasks.
• Working knowledge in use of ingredients, formulation, process, and product design principles.
• Fully operational in specification creation and approval and costing.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data with guidance on final conclusions.
• Working knowledge of experimental design, root cause analysis and problem-solving techniques.
• Good understanding of manufacturing.

Communication

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to construct trial/lab reports and presentations, including making recommendations.
• Ability to present information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Leadership

· You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

· As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

· Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

o PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

o PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

o CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

o PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

o AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $69,360 to $104,040. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

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