Role: Product Developer
Location: Seattle, WA, 98134 - Onsite 5x per week, but some flexibility
Duration: 8 Months Assignment

Description:
This is an opportunity to create and develop new beverages for Client. Our over-arching purpose within R&D is to ignite innovation and co-create to bring the future of client to life today. We are the indisputable leader in breakthrough beverage innovation, delivering relevant experiences and meaningful moments for customers and partners.  This posting is for a contractor role in beverage R&D, for the creation and optimization of beverages for our cafés and/or alternate business channels across the globe. Come be a part of our team and help create amazing  client experiences! 
•    Customer Focus: Delivers legendary service that meets and exceeds all customers’ expectations
•    Ethics and Integrity: Adheres to client values, beliefs and principles during good & bad times
•    Composure: Remains calm, maintains perspective and responds in a professional manner when faced with tough situations
•    Personal Learning: Takes personal responsibility for the continuous learning of new knowledge, skills and experiences
•    Dealing with Ambiguity: Able to successfully function during times of uncertainty and changing priorities
•    Decision-Making: Makes timely and quality decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment
•    Interpersonal Savvy: Builds effective relationships with all people; up, down and sideways, inside and outside of Starbucks
•    Results Oriented: Gets results and achieves goals

Key Projects:

• Leading project for cost optimization and product development
• Utilize data and insights, create and translate culinary concepts into food and beverage recipes and/or products that can be manufactured to deliver on product and operational requirements.
• Under supervision, apply technical knowledge to manage low complexity manufacturing trials, including writing of trial protocol and summaries
• Under supervision, apply technical knowledge and project learnings to create product specifications
• Apply initial understanding of business metrics and operating models to project plans and utilize knowledge of project strategy and goals to design workplans with guidance.
• Complete assigned projects and adapt to changing priorities with agility
• Apply basic understanding of trends and customer insights to create relevant products that will drive the business forward, with support from others.
• Contribute to decision making by using data and information from multiple sources to formulate recommendations and inform on level of risk, unknowns and options.
• Utilize logic and learnings for basic problem solving, navigate formal and informal channels cross functionally and with vendors to support the resolution of issues with guidance.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills and build relationships within the functional organization.
• Provide clear written and oral communication to convey ideas, insights and project updates and achieve understanding of technical issues by non-technical partners, with guidance.
• Collaborate, influence, and support within the team and cross-functional peers.

Technology requirements:

•  Basic Lab Equipment (PH, solids, standard stuff)
• Standard Microsoft Suite

Degree or certifications required:

• Degree in food science or another related field  

 Years experience:

• Entry level, no minimum level of experience

 Required background Skills

•  Knowledge of sensory, experimental design, statistics, and consumer research methodologies
• CoOp or intern in the food industry will be an excellent fit
• Knowledge of food and beverage technology, ingredient functionalities, chemistry, or engineering including processing and manufacturing
• Knowledge of beverage ingredients such as sauces, syrups, dry mixes, dairy, aseptic, toppings.
• Knowledge of development and scale up of food and beverage products
• Knowledge of food quality control, safety and microbiology
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment
• Strong problem solving and communication skills, written and verbal

Nice-to-Haves:

• Food processing or production background (even as an internship)

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 34.00/hr.