Product Development & Quality Specialist - Nestlé

**Position Snapshot**
- Permanent contract
- At least 5 years of experience in R&D activities or product development in Food & Beverage industry
- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial
- Project management skills
**Position Summary**
**A day in the life of Product Development - Application Group**
- Develops, customizes and localizes recipes on lab scale
- Analyzes and reviews new raw materials
- Defines and details raw materials specifications
- Leads Renovation and Innovation projects, and identifies optimization opportunities
- Leads the deployment of new products aligned with Zone priorities
- Provides technical expertise and regional business insight to project team
- Ensures deployment of standards to factories according to plan in collaboration with local teams
- Performs product and process competency building for manufacturing support teams and factory experts
**What will make you successful**
- At least 5 years of experience in R&D activities or product development in Food & Beverage industry
- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial
- Strong project management and relational, and coaching skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally on multi-stakeholder projects
- Ability to identify, understand, present, and mitigate risk
- Good understanding of industrial environment and its' challenges
- Passion for quality and consumer satisfaction
- Ability to deliver results and make challenges to manage projects
- Availability to travel within the country and internationally (Europe) to visit factories