Scientist

Position WL1B

Scientist – Ice Cream R&D North America

Background & Purpose of the Job

Ice Cream is a fun, very innovative, competitive, and fast-paced category. Unilever’s Ice Cream Business Unit in North America looks after a strong portfolio of brands: Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Good Humor, Klondike, Magnum, Popsicle, Talenti and Yasso.

As a member of the Ice Cream R&D team, you will support the R&D activities to deliver the Ice Cream program, ranging from innovation, renovation, quality improvement and margin enhancement. You will work as a member of a cross-functional project team to deliver to deliver the brand’s program and 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, renovation, quality improvement 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; Be the material expert and lead creation of new specifications for new ingredients.
  
  

Provide Technical And Product Guidance

• Actively participate and/or represent R&D in Supply Chain and Marketing 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, and key stakeholders.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed

A deep passion for product design and creative product development

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 low-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.
• Working knowledge 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 Supply Chain.
  
  

Communication

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

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