Recipe Formulation Specialist IF & Toddler

As a Recipe Formulation Specialist IF & Toddler, your mission is to drive the product recipe lifecycle from new product brief to launch, ensuring compliant formulation, effective recipe management and ingredient specification excellence. You will collaborate closely with operations, quality, manufacturing, product, research and development, regulatory and medical affairs teams across markets and factories. This is an opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference at scale.

• Lead compliant recipe development from product brief to launch, ensuring scientifically robust formulations across categories, factories, and markets.
• Translate formulation science into fit-for-purpose recipes by integrating ingredient functionality, nutrient targets, process losses, shelf-life evolution, and manufacturing feasibility.
• Embed compliance by design throughout innovation and renovation projects, ensuring validation, approvals, and documentation align with category rules, internal standards, and external requirements.
• Build technical capability by sharing formulation expertise, best practices, standards, and training with recipe and ingredient specialists, Product Developers, CTAGs, AGs, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Provide technical decision support through formulation proposals, trade-off assessments, variability analyses, and proactive risk mitigation across ingredients, quality, regulatory, nutrition, and manufacturing dimensions.
• Drive simplification and harmonization of recipes, ingredients, and specifications to reduce portfolio complexity, improve operational efficiency, and support scale-up or transfer activities.
• Challenge existing practices and processes, improve existing tools, track and report to increase portfolio visibility.
• Safeguard business continuity by maintaining approval readiness, monitoring formulation-related KPIs, and responding effectively to compliance, data, or recipe management challenges.