**Position**: Principal Food Scientist - Sauces & dressings
**Location**: Monterrey, Nuevo León
**Summary**:
- Contributes to enable How to Win and Where to Play initiatives with specific focus on elevating Food Science capabilities and technologies related to the Sauces & Dressings product category. Leads product development projects and technical initiatives to develop new and optimized products for the NA S&D; innovation pipeline. Align product & process design to our LRP aspirations focused on developing a nutritious and sustainable portfolio and support new markets creation and serve the underserved initiatives.
**Major duties & Responsibilities**:
- Functions as a lead scientist to develop new and optimized products in execution of technical activities that support NA S&D; innovation pipeline.
- Works with considerable independence, exercising ingenuity and judgement in the approach to tasks. Responsible for the design, planning, execution, and reporting of experiments and projects of considerable complexity.
- Leads multiple priorities, projects and timelines concurrently.
- Uses technical and problem solving skills to approach complex projects.
- Acts as a mentor to junior scientists.
- Communicates project progress internally and externally with clients and suppliers.
- Completes product formulation, process design and packaging selection activities to drive efficient production of safe and regulatory compliant food products.
- Completes product formulation activities to ensure compliance to the General Nutrition Criteria.
- Implements Product Development processes to improve efficiencies and effectiveness of function.
- Maintains GLP's, GMP's, and all required development records, using formula management platforms and CRM.
- Participates in cross-functional task forces to support NA S&D; initiatives to accomplish our LRP aspirations.




- Represents NA S&D; R&D; team in professional business relationships with client and supplier base, academia, government, and corporations in the food industry.
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the security of all information regarding product formulas and related confidential information.
**Knowledge and Experience**:
- Minimum level of education: BS in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Chemistry or related technical degree.
- Experience would be between 5 and 10 years of experience within the food industry.
- Experience should have included time in R&D.; QA, production & packaging experience and working directly with customers and manufacturing facilities is desirable.
- Fluent English.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.

📌 Principal Food Scientist S&d (Monterrey)
🏢 Griffith Foods
📍 Monterrey