Starbucks is looking to reinvent itself through customer-focused innovation by developing new ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee products for their North America business, aiming to create special moments for customers and partners.
Requirements
- 8 years’ experience in food and beverage innovation/product development, bench-top to full scale commercialization and process improvement or development
- Strong understanding of CPG products such as dry mixes, aseptic, RTD, coffee, dairy, non-dairy, alt-dairy
- Strong understanding of beverage processing
- Job/category specific product development/innovation experience (Beverage and RTD)
- Models principles and application of Human Centered Design (HCD)
- Applies Ingredient functionality, processing, quality assurance principles, food safety requirements
- Deep knowledge and experience of product development and manufacturing scale up of food and beverage products
Responsibilities
- Inspire our partners & customers by following a proven innovation process to create new CPG (consumer packaged goods) products for Starbucks that customers love, and partners are proud to serve
- Utilize business, customer, market, and macro trend insights to create relevant products that deliver to our broader strategies and company goals
- Lead and execute multiple complex projects, develop comprehensive project plans, and strategies with discipline and agility to achieve business results
- Manage commercialization of ingredients (pilot trials, scale-up, and commercialization) at supplier manufacturing facilities
- Apply technical knowledge and project learnings to create processing and product specifications that ensure products and processes meet quality assurance, food safety and risk assessment requirements
- Collaborate and influence cross-functionally, internally, and externally, across multiple departments to bring products to market, including innovation, renovation and line extension type projects
- Develop, own and executes comprehensive project plans and strategies, based on business, customer insights and data
Other
- BS/MS in Food Science or other related fields
- Working knowledge of human centered design experience or training a plus
- A strong passion and experience in driving innovation at scale
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills, managing projects and change
- Ability to work in a matrixed environment, effective in storytelling
