Product Development Specialist

2 days ago


Le Center, Minnesota, United States Dessert Holdings Inc. Full time

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Product Development Specialist to support our R&D Manager in the test kitchen. If you enjoy baking and trying new recipes, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

The successful candidate will be responsible for updating and maintaining our formula database, creating new and updated corporate data sheets, proofreading formulas, BOMs, and labels for accuracy, preparing correspondence, statements, receipts, or other documents for communication between functional groups, leveraging procurement assistance to locate and order new ingredients and/or packaging materials for R&D, maintaining test kitchen inventory and record lot codes, traveling as needed for training, creating and updating Process Specifications, developing preliminary Nutritional Analysis, ensuring seamless product transitions from lab to fill-scale manufacturing, collaborating with Production to lead Voice of Customer (VOC) test runs, mixing, scaling, baking, finishing, and coordinating shipments of test products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Update and maintain our formula database
  • Proofread formulas, BOMs, and labels for accuracy
  • Prepare correspondence, statements, receipts, or other documents
  • Leverage procurement assistance to locate and order new ingredients and packaging materials
  • Maintain test kitchen inventory and record lot codes
  • Travel as needed for training
  • Create and update Process Specifications
  • Develop preliminary Nutritional Analysis
  • Ensure seamless product transitions from lab to fill-scale manufacturing
  • Collaborate with Production to lead VOC test runs
  • Mix, scale, bake, finish, and coordinate shipments of test products
About Dianne's Fine Desserts

Dessert Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected characteristics.

Estimated Salary: $62,500 per year


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