Scientist I (Flavor Design)

Location: Camden, New Jersey, United States; onsite

Salary: $75,800–$104,200 per year

Company

Campbell’s develops and markets packaged food products across well-known snack, meal, and beverage 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 for product development decisions.
• Analyze technical and sensory data and provide actionable recommendations to project teams.
• 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 3 years of food industry experience in product development, flavor technology, seasoning application, ingredient innovation, or related R&D.
• Understanding of flavor and seasoning functionality within food systems.
• Experience designing experiments, analyzing data, and drawing technical conclusions.
• Strong project management, organization, 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

• Medical, dental, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, and life insurance benefits begin on the first day.
• Matching 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and enrollment available on the first day.
• Unlimited sick time, paid time off, and holiday pay.
• Access to a fitness center, onsite childcare, and company store for WHQ employees.
• Employee resource groups and charitable donation and volunteer matching through Campbell’s Cares.