Senior Recipe Formulation Specialist

Overview

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature’s Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Senior Recipe Formulation Specialist, your mission is to drive the product recipe lifecycle from new product brief to launch, ensuring compliant formulation, effective recipe management and ingredient specification excellence. You’ll make a difference by collaborating closely with operations, quality, manufacturing, product, research and development, regulatory and medical affairs teams across markets and factories. This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference on a scale.

We are looking for someone with strong expertise in compliant recipe design and recipe portfolio management for the infant, toddler, and all-family product portfolios.

In this role, you will be accountable for recipe creation and revisions for innovation and renovation projects, ensuring strict adherence to Nestlé recipe and data standards and timely delivery. You will lead the design of recipes based on a deep understanding of ingredient contributions and interactions, process losses, shelf-life evolution, and manufacturing constraints so that solutions are compliant by design, robust, and fit for intended use throughout the product lifecycle.

Working in close collaboration with Product Developers and cross-functional specialists in Food Safety, Quality, Regulatory, Nutrition, and Manufacturing, you will support sound formulation decisions, facilitate alignment across stakeholders, and guide validation and corrective actions. You will also contribute to category and corporate strategic initiatives related to recipe and ingredient management, providing deep expertise in recipe compliance and enabling efficient, risk-based decision-making.

Additionally, you will champion the effective use of digital tools and systems such as SAP-RM, CAT, DevEX, and reporting solutions to enhance compliance, data quality, workflow efficiency, and end-to-end visibility. You will support continuous improvement of standards, guidelines, and training programs for Product Developers and other stakeholders, while ensuring business continuity in formulation-related activities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, Food Technology, Nutrition, Pharmacy, or related discipline. Masters’ degree preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience of strong product and process knowledge, with the ability to apply technical expertise across recipe development and manufacturing environments.
• Experience working with regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements across multiple markets.
• Practical experience with continuous improvement methods and structured problem-solving approaches.
• Strong hands-on experience in recipe formulation, compliance, and management of nutritional or food products.
• Using analytical thinking, problem solving and digital tools to manage recipe data, good knowledge of statistical calculations.
• Solid understanding of ingredient contributions, process and shelf-life losses, manufacturing feasibility, and the regulatory environment, with the ability to translate these factors into compliant and robust recipe solutions.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and strong proficiency in relevant systems and digital tools, including SAP-RM and an understanding of DevEX and CAT, together with excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Communicating fluently in English.

Key Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of the Nestlé Quality Management System and NCE practices.
• Ability to work effectively within Material & Recipe Management networks
• Credibility and confidence when partnering with technical experts in manufacturing, nutrition, quality, safety, regulatory affairs, and supply chain.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence teams and drive alignment across global and regional stakeholders.
• Ability to translate compliance, formulation, and manufacturing requirements into practical recipe management standards and execution plans.

Compensation

Salary: $88,933.41 to $132,830.75 per year

Bonus Eligibility: 7%

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position.

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.