Recipe Formulation Specialist IF & Toddler

About the role

Be a force for good and grow through experiences that push you further. 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’ll make a difference by collaborating closely with operations, quality, manufacturing, product, research and development, regulatory and medical affairs teams across markets and factories.

Key responsibilities

• 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 harmonisation of recipes, ingredients, and specifications to reduce portfolio complexity, improve operational efficiency, and support scale‑up or transfer activities.
• Be a force for continuous improvements by challenging existing practices and processes, improving tools, and tracking/reporting 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.

Required profile

• Scientific education in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Pharmacy or a related field, combined with strong hands‑on experience in recipe formulation, compliance, and management of nutritional or food products.
• Analytical thinking, problem‑solving and digital tools to manage recipe data, with good knowledge of statistical calculations.
• Solid understanding of ingredient contributions, process and shelf‑life losses, manufacturing feasibility, and the regulatory environment, with the ability to translate these factors into compliant and robust recipe solutions.
• Experience working in cross‑functional teams and strong proficiency in relevant systems and digital tools, including SAP‑RM and an understanding of DevEX and CAT.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Required skills

• SAP‑RM
• DevEX
• CAT
• Statistical calculations
• Recipe data management