Product Development

• Support the Healthy Snacks category for infants, toddlers, and older children
• Act as technical lead to identify solutions, deliver innovation and renovation initiatives, and drive optimization and improvement projects
• Lead product development activities from concept to commercialization, introducing new products and processes within factories
• Ensure product and process safety, stability, legality, cost, quality, compliance, and consumer relevance
• Steer projects on-time, on-budget, and against key success criteria
• Partner with global Nestlé experts to leverage innovative capabilities and drive product superiority
• Lead technical projects across manufacturing operations, raw material sourcing, quality improvements, cost savings, and compliance
• Drive ingredient qualification, supplier onboarding, technical acceptance, and regulatory compliance initiatives
• Lead recipe optimizations to improve manufacturability
• Apply problem-solving skills and scientific knowledge to improve operational excellence
• Lead onboarding, evaluation, and qualification of raw materials and suppliers, including allergen and claims assessment
• Develop product and process standards in compliance with Nestlé requirements, external regulations, and industry benchmarks
• Provide subject matter expertise and first-line support to factories and co-manufacturing partners in ingredients, recipes, and processing
• Define, develop, and coach competencies and training materials for product/process mastership
• Represent the Technical Applications Group globally and externally

Product Development jobs in Michigan

Product Development Specialist