About the position
Responsibilities
• Inspire our partners & customers by following a proven innovation process to create new products for Starbucks that customers love
• Utilize business, customer, market and macro trend insights to create relevant products that deliver to our broader strategies and company goals
• Lead and execute multiple complex projects, develop comprehensive project plans, and strategies with discipline and agility to achieve business results
• Manage and present project information and status to cross-functional team and varying levels of leadership
• Manage commercialization of ingredients (pilot trials, scale-up, and commercialization) at supplier facilities
• Apply technical knowledge and project learnings to create processing and product specifications that ensure products and processes meet quality assurance, food safety and risk assessment requirements
• Collaborate and influence cross-functionally, internally, and externally, across multiple departments to bring products to market, including innovation, renovation and line extension type projects
• Develop, own and execute comprehensive project plans and strategies, based on business, customer insights and data
• Proactively adjust to project customers, market and business changes to balance priorities and keep projects on track
• Provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure projects are delivered to the defined goals and timelines
Requirements
• BS/MS in Food Science or other related field
• Minimum 8 years experience in beverage and food innovation/product development, bench-top to full scale commercialization and process improvement or development
• Strong knowledge of beverage technology, ingredient functionalities, chemistry, or engineering including beverage, ingredient processing and manufacturing
• Understanding of beverage ingredients such as juices, dairy, syrups, sauces
• Working knowledge of human centered design experience or training a plus
• A strong passion and experience in driving innovation at scale
Nice-to-haves
• Deep knowledge and experience of product development and manufacturing scale up of food and beverage products
• Knowledge of food quality control, food safety and microbiology
• Knowledge of sensory, experimental design, statistics and consumer research methodologies
• Demonstrate the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with peers, business partners and stakeholders internally and externally
• Strong and effective collaboration, problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to travel internationally yearly
Benefits
• Access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• Family expansion reimbursement
• Paid vacation from date of hire
• Sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
• Eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year
• Participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• Incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools
• 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
• Student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities
• Access to backup care and DACA reimbursement
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