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Recipe Formulation Specialist IF & Toddler

Company: Nestlé

Location: Konolfingen, CH

Function: Research & Product Development

Job Type: Full time On-site

Location: Konolfingen, Switzerland
Work model: On Site/Full time
Contract type / duration: Permanent

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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. This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference at scale.

How you’ll make an impact as a Recipe Formulation Specialist IF & Toddler

• 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 harmonization 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 existing tools, tracking and 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.

What will make you successful

• Scientific education in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Pharmacist or a related field, combined with strong hands-on experience in recipe formulation, compliance, and management of nutritional or food products.
• Using analytical thinking, problem solving and digital tools to manage recipe data, 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, together with excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Communicating fluently in English.

What to expect from our hiring process

We are committed to an inclusive and respectful hiring experience and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations if needed. Our workplaces are fully accessible and supported by a strong safety culture, with modern installations and procedures to ensure a safe environment for everyone.

The hiring process typically includes a video interview with Talent Acquisition, an interview with the hiring team, and a final discussion and offer. We review applications as they are received and close the role once a strong list of relevant candidates is identified, so we encourage you to apply early. All information is treated confidentially.

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