Scientist I – Flavor Design

Location: Camden, New Jersey 08103, United States

Salary: $75,800–$104,200 annual base salary

Company

Campbell’s develops and manufactures branded food and snack products, including Campbell’s, Goldfish, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, Rao’s Homemade, V8, and other consumer food brands.

What you will do

• Lead flavor and seasoning development for innovation, renovation, quality improvement, and productivity initiatives across the Snacks portfolio.
• Partner with flavor and seasoning suppliers to identify ingredient solutions, evaluate emerging technologies, and execute projects.
• Design and conduct flavor, seasoning, and sensory evaluations; analyze technical and sensory data and provide recommendations.
• Collaborate with Product Development, Packaging, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement, Supply Chain, and external suppliers through commercialization.
• Coordinate pilot plant and manufacturing trials to support scale-up and product launches.
• Maintain formulations, specifications, technical reports, project documentation, flavor libraries, databases, and knowledge management systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences, Nutrition, or a related technical discipline.
• At least three years of food industry experience in product development, flavor technology, seasoning application, ingredient innovation, or related R&D functions.
• Understanding of flavor and seasoning functionality within food systems.
• Experience designing experiments, analyzing data, and drawing technical conclusions.
• Strong project management, organizational, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and data management systems.

Nice to have

• Experience working directly with flavor and seasoning suppliers.
• Experience with snack foods, crackers, cookies, bakery, or salty snack categories.
• Knowledge of sensory evaluation methodologies and consumer-driven product development.
• Experience supporting pilot plant studies and manufacturing commercialization.
• Familiarity with ingredient specifications, formulation systems, and product lifecycle management tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time salaried employment with benefits beginning on the first day.
• Medical, dental, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, and life insurance coverage.
• Matching 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and enrollment available from the first day.
• Unlimited sick time, paid time off, and holiday pay.
• Access to wellness facilities, on-site childcare, employee resource groups, and charitable donation or volunteer matching through Campbell’s Cares.