.**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 Global 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 OPPORTUNITYGriffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity