Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Elevate the Cargill brand within the bakery category. Provide technical leadership, partnership, and guidance to customers. Work closely with them to troubleshoot, solution and develop product improvement in bakery formulations for existing offerings and needs or prototypes for new product introductions.
• Track trends and apply industry advancements to help define the future needs of the bakery industry. Identify new product opportunities to meet industry and customer challenges.
• Implement an innovation roadmap including market plans aligned to the business strategy.
• Mentor teammates with knowledge sharing to further develop competency in bakery product formulating. Work closely with cross functional teams including marketing, consumer insights, sales, operations, and food safety quality and regulatory.
• Collaborate with business teams to develop short- and long-term testing programs for experimental and commercial products and hybrids.
• Partner with sales, business management and marketing partners to identify customer needs and translate needs into new product development opportunities.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Ability to travel up to 20%

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Certified Baker certification
• New product development experience

The Senior Food Scientist, Bakery will explore, develop and implement new and existing products. In this position, you will provide technical expertise to customers seeking expertise with modifications to products or new product development. In addition, you will partner cross-functionally for product line growth and technology or process development for the creation of new capabilities. This position identifies and implements technical solutions against business goals.