Starbucks is looking to innovate and optimize food products to maintain its position as an indisputable leader in breakthrough innovation, creating food and beverage experiences that nurture love, connection, and inspiration.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in food and beverage innovation/product development, bench-top to full scale commercialization and process improvement or development
- Strong knowledge and experience in product development and manufacturing of food and beverage products
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously with some guidance, across various food platforms, ensuring that briefs deliver to the strategy and that concepts created meet the briefs.
- Utilize business and customer insights to optimize products in a way that ties to broader strategy and company goals.
- Utilize your knowledge of ingredient functionality, formulations and food processes to drive cost savings initiatives and build supply chain resiliency across all food platforms.
- Apply your technical knowledge and project learnings to write plant trial protocol and ingredient and product specifications, seeking guidance when needed.
- Provide options and recommendations to successfully drive projects forward, with reduced risks and speed to market.
- Communicate cross-functionally and with leadership to advance recommendations and use storytelling to present concepts and ideas.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to bring projects to fruition on time and with excellence.
Other
- A degree in Food Science or other related fields
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills
- Culinary and human centered design experience or training a plus
- We believe we do our best work when we're together, which is why we're onsite four days a week.
