Senior Food Scientist; Bakery​/Pastry

Senior Food Scientist (Dessert/Pastry) – 1-year Contract

Dessert Holdings is the leading premium dessert company in the world. We craft artisanal, scratch-made desserts at scale, combining culinary innovation with the finest real ingredients. With a rich heritage spanning seven distinctive brands, we bring unmatched expertise and tailored solutions to our Retail and Food service partners.

Dessert Holdings is looking for a Senior Food Scientist to fill a one-year contract at our facility in Aurora, CO
. This position will provide leadership for implementation and execution of new and existing projects and deliver products that meet taste, functionality, quality, and cost expectations.

• Work on projects with the Culinary and R&D teams to commercialize new products, improve existing products, and find opportunities for cost savings.
• Develop analytic methods and control techniques for ingredients, raw materials, and finished goods.
• Ensure that product manufacturing recipes and specifications produce optimum product quality and efficiency including the initiation and direction of troubleshooting activities when needed.
• Investigate, report, and make recommendations on technical issues which may impact the business.
• Provide technical support to internal and external customers, including Procurement, Sales, Commercialization, Quality, Operations.
• Source and investigate new ingredients and technologies that may have potential application in existing or future product launches.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the new product development process by actively participating in and encouraging continuous improvement to enhance our win rate, reduce our costs, improve our new product scale up and expedite our speed to market.

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science or Food Engineering with a strong functional Baking Science background
• At least 5 years of prior experience with working on new products through concept, prototyping and commercialization within a manufacturing environment.
• Exceptional palate and sensory skills
• Recipe formulation and raw material knowledge/experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, ERP systems
• Self-directed with initiative; responsible for managing own projects and ensuring all timelines are met or exceeded
• Ability/willingness to work off hours or extended amounts of time during product scale ups.

Dessert Holdings is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands:
The Original Cakerie, Lawler’s Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Steven Charles, Dianne’s Fine Desserts, Kenny’s Great Pies, and Willamette Valley Pie Company. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, employs more than 3,500 people across ten manufacturing facilities, and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.

Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.