Senior Food Scientist

Senior Food Scientist

Dessert Holdings is the leading premium dessert company in the world. We craft artisanal, scratch-made desserts at scale, combining culinary innovation with the finest real ingredients. With a rich heritage spanning seven distinctive brands, we bring unmatched expertise and tailored solutions to our Retail and Foodservice partners.

Dessert Holdings is looking for a Senior Food Scientist to be based in our Aurora, CO location. The Food Scientist position will work directly with the culinary team in making robust formulas that can be scaled up for the Commercialization team. This Food Scientist position will ensure new items are built and launched successfully, existing items are documented accurately and act as a liaison between Culinary Team, Production, Sales, Finance, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain. Will drive technical projects to meet business initiatives focusing on new product development, quality improvement and cost improvement.  

The typical hiring range for this role is $100,000 to $110,000 annually and is based on several factors such as education, work experience, skills, certifications, location, etc. In addition to pay, Dessert Holdings offers benefits such as a choice of comprehensive medical plans, dental and vision insurance, paid vacation and holidays, and retirement contribution to all eligible employees.
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide project leadership in the development of new formulations, on proper use of functional ingredients and creation of robust formulations on the bench. 
• Work on multiple interdisciplinary projects, developing and implementing plans, and coordinating resources to achieve goals. 
• Design and execute experiments, analyze, and interpret data to make sound technical recommendations for specific projects. 
• Develop product and process specifications, ensuring training and transfer of specific knowledge to QA and Operations.  
• Support Commercialization, Operations and QA to resolve ingredient, formula and process issues and manage product/process changes.  
• Provide technical support to Culinary team on product information and process capability. 
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams on implementing new products, new equipment or new processes. 
• Provide formula and process specifications with Culinary team and translating that to on floor processes and support to ensure smooth rollouts of new products, equipment and/or processes. 
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the new product development process by; actively participating in and encouraging continuous improvement to enhance our win rate, reduce our costs, improve our new product scale up and expedite our speed to market. 

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Food Science / Food Engineering with a strong functional Baking Science background.  5 – 8 years' experience in manufacturing required.  
• Experience with designing and working on new products through concept, prototyping and commercialization within a manufacturing environment. 
• Strong re-engineering knowledge / experience 
• Recipe / Formulation and raw material knowledge / experience. 
• Strong Bench skills when comes to recipe testing and development 
• Team oriented when large sample requests come in 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, D365 systems 
• Self-directed with initiative; responsible for managing own projects and ensuring all timelines are met or exceeded  
• Ability/willingness to work off hours or extended amounts of time during product scale ups. 
• Ability/willingness to travel up to 40% of the time. 
   

About Dessert Holdings
Dessert Holdings is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Steven Charles, Dianne's Fine Desserts, Kenny's Great Pies, and Willamette Valley Pie Company. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, employs more than 3,500 people across ten manufacturing facilities, and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.

EEO Statement
Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.