Product Development

• Build seasonal and ongoing product assortments across bedding, bath, pet, and future soft-home categories
• Develop product concepts and identify opportunities for newness, extensions, and key items
• Translate trends, consumer insights, customer needs, and brand direction into commercially viable products
• Build and maintain detailed assortment plans and SKU-level product lineups
• Identify assortment gaps and recommend new products, extensions, and collection opportunities
• Balance design, quality, price, margin, inventory requirements, and customer demand
• Determine SKU breadth and depth and establish initial inventory needs, SKU quantities, and order recommendations with Planning
• Manage products from initial concept and vendor development through samples, revisions, costing, and final approval
• Communicate product requirements to vendors and coordinate development timelines, samples, specifications, and revisions
• Review samples and provide feedback on design intent, quality, target costs, and functional requirements
• Review and negotiate product costing, MOQs, and pricing with vendors and agents
• Work with Sourcing to identify factories and vendor partners
• Ensure products are fully developed and ready for order placement, including accurate specifications, costing, packaging, and dimensions
• Partner with Planning and Operations on SKU setup and product readiness
• Monitor development pipelines and flag issues affecting orders, inventory availability, or launch timing
• Manage daily communication with overseas vendors and agents and follow up on development trackers
• Partner cross-functionally with Design, Sourcing, Planning, Sales, Operations, Packaging, and leadership
• Monitor home-market trends, competitive assortments, pricing, product offerings, and new launches
• Identify whitespace opportunities and recommend new products or categories
• Participate in customer and sales meetings and support showroom and line presentation preparation

Product Development, Assortment Planning – Home Textiles

• Lead formulation development for new and existing Uncrustables® breads and sandwich products
• Frame complex business problems, define and lead detailed learning plans, and recommend solutions
• Serve as project team member or technical lead on complex innovation, renovation, and transformation initiatives
• Define experimental and research strategies
• Lead laboratory, pilot plant, scale-up, and manufacturing work
• Guide or delegate execution as appropriate
• Interpret complex data and translate findings into technical, operational, and financial recommendations
• Explore strategic technical advancements, including new platforms, methodologies, capabilities, and defensive intellectual property opportunities
• Demonstrate technical readiness for complex initiatives
• Collaborate across functions and external networks
• Influence shared project and business objectives
• Guide technical documentation and data governance
• Support scientific methodologies and coach others to strengthen formulation and product development capabilities

Scientist, Product Development

• Analyze product development and manufacturing workflows to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
• Develop strategy and transformation deliverables to improve speed to market, cost performance, and product quality
• Apply product development, product lifecycle management, and product roadmap skills across concept through launch
• Document current-state processes and future-state operating models to guide operational change
• Interpret data and operational metrics to inform product strategy and manufacturing recommendations
• Support lean manufacturing and supply chain integration efforts
• Use AI fluency and process documentation tools to improve analysis, reporting, and knowledge transfer
• Build client relationships, anticipate needs, and coordinate assigned workstreams
• Review junior team members' work and guide task execution within project scope
• Develop recommendations reflecting business context, client priorities, and professional standards

Senior Associate, Product Development Excellence – Strategy and Transformation

• Serve as a product expert and partner with Marketing, Social, PR, and Creative teams to support product launches, campaigns, photoshoots, PR placements, events, and social content through assortment curation and brand storytelling
• Maintain and manage the product database and product development trackers, ensuring accurate style setup, updates, and cross-functional visibility
• Manage product sample logistics, including vendor communication, shipment tracking, internal distribution, sample sign-in/sign-out, and delivery for review, approval, styling, and production
• Organize physical and digital sample archives with accurate labeling, documentation, and traceability
• Assist with product reviews, presentations, collection overviews, and assortment strategies
• Identify and implement process improvements across sample management workflows
• Conduct trend and market research, including visual inspiration, competitive analysis, and industry insights, to inform fine jewelry and luxury merchandising opportunities
• Support operational initiatives, cross-functional communication, special projects, and ad hoc administrative responsibilities

Product Development, Merchandising Assistant

• Execute coverage initiatives that drive growth and strengthen PURE’s competitive position
• Monitor countrywide legislative changes and recommend coverage impacts
• Analyze existing coverage and execute approved changes from filing through systems implementation
• Maintain knowledge of competitor actions, industry developments, and Member needs
• Drive coverage innovation for PURE’s target market
• Create system specifications for coverage and form changes within the policy management system
• Report to the Director, Product Development within the Product Management team
• Work closely with several business units across the organization

Product Development Specialist

• Lead formulation development for new and existing Uncrustables breads and sandwich products
• Develop and execute learning plans addressing business needs and translate technical findings into recommendations
• Serve as a project team member or technical lead on innovation, renovation, and transformation initiatives
• Plan and support lab, pilot plant, scale-up, and manufacturing trials at internal and contract manufacturing sites
• Apply technical judgment, experimental design, and data analysis to solve formulation and process challenges
• Maintain technical documentation, specifications, and data governance practices
• Collaborate with R&D, Operations, Technical Services, Procurement, Quality, and external partners
• Support food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements through formulation practices and technical review

Senior Technologist, FH&S 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

• Participate in R&D projects and activities aligned with I&R pipelines
• Develop products using innovative ingredients and processes generated from consumer insights
• Manage bench and pilot plant trials
• Participate in project activities and coordinate resources to deliver industrialized products and processes within defined quality and timelines
• Calculate project carbon impact for sustainability deliverables
• Document projects according to Nestlé guidelines
• Present and publish project results with team members at meetings with R&D, SBU, and Markets
• Write and communicate appropriately with all involved stakeholders
• Participate in relevant training courses, especially Trial Management Processes
• Stay current in the scientific field and business aspects of liquid beverage products

Associate Product Development Specialist

• Lead recipe creation, reformulation, rapid prototyping, and vendor relationship management
• Work hands-on with pilot plants, internal and external factories, and manufacturing facilities
• Deliver Innovation & Renovation business objectives
• Build consumer insights and represent products in cross-functional settings with Marketing, Sales, and Finance
• Lead product development, commercialization, optimization, and renovation
• Implement Innovation & Renovation strategies for supported product categories
• Develop, implement, and execute bench-top, pilot-plant, and factory product/process development activities
• Serve as technical lead, steering projects to meet timing, COGS, and consumer objectives
• Formulate products, reduce complaints, mitigate risks, and ensure controls match the gold standard
• Act as the factory point of contact for technical solution implementation
• Collaborate with R&D, Product Development, Project Management, Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, Packaging, Factories, Marketing, Co-Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Supply Chain
• Guide factory, R&D, and Engineering resources on equipment and product knowledge
• Optimize products and processes and lead technical assistance, sourcing, quality, compliance, and cost-saving projects
• Establish timelines, identify roadblocks and critical paths, and manage resource constraints
• Ensure adherence to product, process, material, Nestlé, external, and regulatory standards
• Apply HACCP and food safety fundamentals, onboard materials, validate allergens/claims, and assess process capability
• Develop product and process mastership, competencies, and training materials
• Provide first-line factory support for ingredients, recipes, and processing

Product Development Specialist – TAG

• Lead product development activities delivering innovative and competitive products, processes, and systems in response to business needs
• Develop products using innovative ingredients and processes informed by consumer and technical insights
• Manage bench and pilot plant trials through factory scale-up
• Ensure products comply with 60/40+ and other corporate guidelines and agreed timelines
• Work in project teams across R&D, Application Groups, Markets, Factories, and Business Units
• Participate in Application Group training and present in Product Development workshops
• Document product development activities through the Launch (I2L) process
• Communicate findings to stakeholders and partners
• Apply intellectual asset management practices, including Freedom to Operate, Prior Art, and Protection Strategy
• Ensure compliance
• Travel domestically and internationally to client sites up to 10% for product industrialization support and training

Product Development jobs in United States

Product Development, Assortment Planning – Home Textiles

Scientist, Product Development

Senior Associate, Product Development Excellence – Strategy and Transformation

Product Development, Merchandising Assistant

Product Development Specialist

Senior Technologist, FH&S Product Development

Product Development Specialist

Associate Product Development Specialist

Product Development Specialist – TAG

Tech Product Development Specialist