**Position Snapshot**
- Permanent contract
- At least 3-5 years of experience in R&D; activities, product development in Food & Beverage industry
- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial
- Project management skills **Position Summary** **A day in the life of a Product Application & Projects Specialist**
- Defines and details raw material specifications and purchasing specifications
- Ensures the continuous updating of raw material specifications
- Reviews raw material specifications and updates recipes if required
- Leads raw material substitution and cost optimization projects
- Leads the review, analysis and deployment of new and alternative raw materials
- Leads the industrialization of internally produced semi-finished goods
- Develops, customizes and localizes recipes on lab scale
- Leads Renovation and Innovation projects, and identifies optimization opportunities
- Leads the deployment of new products aligned with Zone priorities
- Provides technical expertise and regional business insight to project team




- Ensures deployment of standards to factories according to plan in collaboration with local teams
- Performs product and process competency building for manufacturing support teams and factory experts **What will make you successful**
- At least 3-5 years of experience in R&D; activities or product development in Food & Beverage industry
- Fluent in Italian and English, French is beneficial
- Strong project management and relational, and coaching skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally on multi-stakeholder projects
- Ability to identify, understand, present, and mitigate risk
- Good understanding of industrial environment and its’ challenges
- Passion for quality and consumer satisfaction
- Ability to deliver results and make challenges to manage projects
- Availability to travel within the country and internationally (Europe) to visit factories

📌 Product Application & Projects Specialist - Nestlé Waters (Madone)
🏢 Nestlé Waters
📍 Madone