Job description
Join Aurora Culinary & Co., a premium leader in the modern food industry, crafting innovative consumer-ready products that delight taste buds and meet strict quality standards. We are seeking a Senior Food Product Development Scientist to drive end-to-end product creation in a fast paced environment.
\nYou will collaborate with cross functional teams to translate concept into scalable formulations, ensure regulatory compliance, and champion sustainability and clean label initiatives.
\nLocation: Chicago, IL. Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and ample opportunities for career growth.
Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end product development from concept through launch, including formulation, process development, and scale-up.
- Design and optimize formulations using clean label ingredients, cost targets, and sensory criteria.
- Collaborate with R&D, QA, procurement and production to ensure feasibility and compliance.
- Prepare technical briefs, ingredient declarations, nutrition panels, and regulatory documentation.
- Plan and execute sensory evaluation, consumer testing, and panel analysis.
- Validate shelf-life studies and implement food safety plans in line with HACCP and GMP guidelines.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and cross-functional communication to meet launch deadlines.
Qualification
- BS or MS in Food Science, Chemistry, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on food product development experience in dairy, bakery, snacks or beverages.
- Strong knowledge of FDA FSMA, HACCP, GMP and labeling regulations.
- Proficiency with formulation, shelf-life and analytical testing; experience with DOE and statistical tools.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across R&D, manufacturing, marketing and QA teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and travel up to 10% as needed.
- Experience with supplier qualification and dev procurement a plus.
- Strong problem solving and data-driven decision making.