Senior Manager, Bakery Science and Engineering, Sweet Baked Snacks

Position Overview

• Location Type: Onsite
• Job Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not specified
• Description: This role provides technical expertise in food science and bakery science to Sweet Baked Snacks (SBS) operations. The Senior Manager will develop relationships with technical resources across manufacturing plants and cross-functional partners to deliver business goals, focusing on quality improvements, optimization efforts, formulation cost savings, and standardization. The individual will also lead the technical training program and represent operations at Technical Readiness and Gate Review meetings.

Requirements

• Understanding of food science and bakery science principles.
• Experience in developing and implementing operational savings projects.
• Ability to build relationships with technical resources and cross-functional partners.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in quality improvement initiatives and root cause analysis.
• Ability to lead complex projects.
• Experience with CQV (Customer Quality Verification) processes.

Responsibilities

• Initiate, define, and deliver operational savings projects to support SBA savings goals.
• Develop relationships with key technical resources in each manufacturing plant.
• Identify loss opportunities across SBA Operations.
• Partner with Operations and cross-functional teams to complete loss analysis and identify opportunities.
• Prioritize opportunities with business and align resources to the highest-potential projects.
• Champion increased standardization for ingredients, transformations, and equipment.
• Provide food science expertise to other team members.
• Directly lead projects with greatest impact and/or highest complexity.
• Own bakery science technical training for plant technical resources.
• Support and coach technical resources to complete CQV for TSO lead projects.
• Partner with R&D to review new product and process CQV plans.
• Support delivery of Quality improvements and resolution of quality issues at plants.
• Coach plants to design quality issues out.
• Partner with R&D to deliver robust solutions for initiatives.
• Actively participate in Technical Readiness reviews for initiatives.
• Review and provide input to process and formulation solutions proposed for initiatives.
• Engage with initiatives from the gate process through qualification.
• Develop and champion options to optimize capital requirements.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for operations.

Working Arrangements

• Location: Orrville, OH; Emporia, KS; or Columbus, GA
• Working Arrangements: 100% on-site
• Travel: Required, typically 40% - 60% (peak periods vary)

Reports To

• Director, Engineering & Technical Services Organization (TSO) - Sweet Baked Snacks (SBS)