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FOOD
SCIENTIST
Reports to the Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing
and Global Supply Chain Development
Job Location is Buhl, Idaho
Salary Range: Competitive Salary
Job Summary
The Food Scientist reports to the Executive Vice President of Sales,
Marketing, and Global Supply Chain Development. This exempt, salaried
position requires a hands-on individual with the ability to develop
innovative food products and adapt them for production line execution.
Clear Springs provides fresh and frozen food products to customers
nationally. Clear Springs is a fully vertically integrated company that
controls all aspects of its food business from inception to market.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for Product
Development
- Manage Product Development
strategies and objectives.
- Work with senior management
staff to develop strategies for short term and long range product
line growth.
- Develop, discuss and
promote new product ideas.
- Develop both new products
for Clear Springs brands, as well as customer brands:
- Work with customers to
develop and refine products to their specifications.
- Develop presentations to
customers as needed.
- Travel with other Clear
Springs staff to customer meetings/events; industry events as needed
to demonstrate Clear Springs products to
targeted audience.
- Provide ideas and
information with regard to market trends in the food industry.
- Be actively involved in
providing information to sales, marketing and operations with regard
to culinary trends.
- Perform other duties as
assigned or needed.
- Maintain department files
and correspondence.
- Communication/Customer
Contact
- Participate in discussion
about confidential/sensitive matters.
- Communicate with other
employees and departments through written and oral interactions.
- Develop and maintain
customer and supplier contacts.
- Communicate with all
members of the Sales and Marketing group as needed.
- Provide regular reports to
Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Global Supply
Chain Development.
- Work in cooperation with
all members of the Operations and Quality Assurance groups as
needed.
Technical Requirements
- Develop and Maintain
Nutritional Specifications for Products.
- Perform other duties as
assigned or needed.
- Involvement in
industry/culinary associations such as RCA and ACF.
Qualifications
- Requires a Bachelor’s
Degree in food science.
- Requires culinary
experience and interest in food.
- Requires previous
management experience.
- Manage multiple projects
concurrently.
- Requires two to five years
of food science/culinary work experience.
- Excellent interpersonal
skills.
- Ability to calculate
figures and amounts such as rate, ratio, and percent; and to draw
and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common
sense to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or
diagram form.
- Ability to write routine
reports and correspondence.
- Required to have advanced
knowledge of computer programs such as Word, Excel, and Power Point.
- Ability to read and
interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance
instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to speak
effectively before groups of customers or employees of the
organization.
- Independent decision making
skills are necessary.
- Ability to pass drug test.
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