Fixed-term Contract- Product Platform Specialist

At Purina, pets are our passion, safety is our promise and progress is our pledge. We work smarter, not harder. As a result, we’re widely known as a ‘Best Place to Work’. We make some of the world's most popular and trusted food brands and are committed to advancing the science, health and food products for pets.

**Position Snapshot**:

- Fixed term contract of 12 months
- Executive position
- Nestlé Purina Petcare - Issy les Moulineaux Headquarter
- Master degree in Food Science
- Some experience in Operations - 6 to 18 months or in product Research & Development and/or product technology - 6 to 18 months
- Attractive package, caring management, flexible working hours or remote work, allow you to evolve in a pleasant environment. You benefit from training throughout your career, aimed at promoting your development towards different roles within the Group.

**Position Summary**:
Joining Nestlé Purina, it is being part of the First Center of expertise in the Food industry, an inclusive community, supportive and virtuous. You will find respect and consideration to develop yourself at different level.

As a Product Program Young Program, you will have to learn and support the cross functional technical team leading on product development for Innovation & Renovation to deliver on time, at optimized cost and right quality products to the business. You will also to coached by a Senior or Manager in the platform and support the Product Maintenance, sustainability and operational support for assigned Portfolio.

**A day in the life of Product Platform Specialist**:
Right Technical Leadership:

- Demonstrate expertise in process and products for your specific platform
- Support process and product validation during new line commissioning, new I&R project implementation and operational issues
- Demonstrate leadership in project management and coordinate with all technical teams to deliver a project on time and in full
- Master project management tool to assess risk and define reliable timeline and forecast with cross functional teams
- Support / Provide recommendation to align all factories way of working
- Right I&R pipeline implementation
- Lead I&R projects with crossfunctional teams
- Define and validate with all stakeholders products and process specifications
- Ensure alignment and compliance between products and declarations (LSS, packs, advertising)
- Perform all industrial tests required (Factory trials, Palatability, digestability,...)
- Enable the delivery of all required indicators, deliverables and documentations related to a project
- Ensure alignment between new products development and existing technology platforms

Right Product superiority:

- Ensure maintenance and reliability of product/recipe compliance and Quality
- Deliver and perform product assessment with appropriate action plan execution ( panel, tests, consumer complaint review, )
- Perform regular competitor products review and assessment
- Support other teams with technical data and recommendations (consumer service, external communication,..)

Right Expertise support
- Provide expertise support on dedicated Portfolio to technical tranversal initiatives, UOS definition, capex and operations

**What will make you successful**:

- A person of integrity: you are convinced that you can do your job in a responsible way. You are looking for a company where responsibility is a guideline at all levels.
- Curious: what you do not know yet attracts you. You are eager to learn new things and motivated meet new personalities.
- Some experience in Operations - 6 to 18 months or in product Research & Development and/or product technology - 6 to 18 months
- Mastery of English
- Good networking abilities
- Continuous Improvement through standardization mindset
- Transfer knowledge within scope of expertise
- Ability to lead or work in/drive cross functional teams as well as work alone
- Ability to adapt to change
- SAP knowledge is an advantage

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