Product Development & Quality Specialist - Nestlé Bardi

Product Development & Quality Specialist - Nestlé
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

Position Snapshot

- Permanent contract

- At least 5 years of experience in R&D activities or product development in Food & Beverage industry

- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial

- Project management skills

**Position Summary

**A day in the life of Product Development - Application Group

- Develops, customizes and localizes recipes on lab scale

- Analyzes and reviews new raw materials

- Defines and details raw materials specifications

- Leads Renovation and Innovation projects, and identifies optimization opportunities

- Leads the deployment of new products aligned with Zone priorities

- Provides technical expertise and regional business insight to project team

- Ensures deployment of standards to factories according to plan in collaboration with local teams

- Performs product and process competency building for manufacturing support teams and factory experts

**What will make you successful

- At least 5 years of experience in R&D activities or product development in Food & Beverage industry

- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial

- Strong project management and relational, and coaching skills

- Ability to work cross-functionally on multi-stakeholder projects

- Ability to identify, understand, present, and mitigate risk

- Good understanding of industrial environment and its' challenges

- Passion for quality and consumer satisfaction

- Ability to deliver results and make challenges to manage projects

- Availability to travel within the country and internationally (Europe) to visit factories