Innovation Scientist Job Description
Innovation scientist
provides company departments with testing protocols, process design and sensory and product testing for new products/new processes.
Innovation Scientist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Project management within Stage and Gate process of new product development delivering to set milestones
Responsible for time and project tracking incl
Responsible for managing innovation group including project and team management bench formulation
Support product and recipe validation with new technology development from initiation to full-scale feasibility
Work directly with the Chief Analytics Officer focusing on external communication bringing to our customers move visibility to the analytic innovations and process behind innovation, including speaking engagement, collateral development, presentations, and social medial messaging
Proactively drive portfolio and investment decision to balance customer needs, install base requirements (refresh) and long term enterprise differentiation
Leverage overall portfolio and product strategy to create a detailed analytics plan tailored for balancing internal productivity and customer facing solutions and be responsible for continual readouts on the analytic innovation plan and success of our external communications efforts
Work closely with development teams during detailed design and implementation
Share expertise in Analytics and Software Development to challenge engineering teams during Sprint reviews as part of our Agile development
Interact with direct management on a daily and as needed basis for reviewing recommended action plans, receiving coaching on projects and career plans
Innovation Scientist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Innovation Scientist
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Education for Innovation Scientist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the innovation scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Education, Biology, Biochemistry
Skills for Innovation Scientist
Desired skills for innovation scientist include:
Pertinent processes
Regulatory guidelines and sensory testing
Competitive environments and laboratory workflow processes helpful
Clinical trial design
Equipment and procedures for making dispersions and handling powders will be considered
Extraction and distillation processes
FDA regulations and experience with IDE trials
Food ingredient functionality
GLP
Raw materials and chemical processes
Desired experience for innovation scientist includes:
Be able to embrace all aspects of product development including the fuzzy front end
At least a Master’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years’ experience OR a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 6 years of experience
Must be willing to travel up to 50% of the time US and globally
Working on a team with other developers, designers, and strategists
Experience with measurement science techniques
PhD in Chemistry, preferably Polymer Chemistry
Innovation Scientist Examples
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Innovation Scientist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of innovation scientist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for innovation scientist
- Provide scientific leadership in (1) developing assays in cell based formats that are suitable for automated high-throughput screening in 384 or 1536-well formats (2) high-throughput screens (3) analyzing screening data, including presentations at program team meetings
- Perform a substantial level of hands-on laboratory work
- Develop innovative approaches to screening and hit triage, data processing and analysis, bioinformatics support
- Influence the course of projects, scientific methods and company’s technical direction
- Design complex experimental strategies to identify and screen active natural targets that address project goals
- Identify complex obstacles to progress
- Provide significant organizational contributions (peer review, symposia, scientific advisory boards, forums, cross-enterprise or global technical initiatives) by demonstrating intellectual leadership and effective mentoring of others
- Build global innovation ecosystem by keeping abreast of scientific and technical developments related to Naturals Platform emerging science areas
- Manage internal and external collaborations and partnerships
- Generate study/invention reports and publish research in high-quality journals, as appropriate
Qualifications for innovation scientist
- Proficient in using statistical modeling and programming tools such as R, SPSS and Matlab
- Experience in building applications on at least one cloud platform such as HANA Cloud platform, AWS, GCP, Pivotal and heroku
- Ensure compliance with company good laboratory practices and other regulatory/quality guidelines
- Generate ideas/research strategies, implements them and produces results that are of importance to the company
- Co-author manuscripts and other publications for submission to high-quality journals and other forums
- Minimum of a Masters Degree with 6 years of related industry experience in cell-based assay development for pharmacology and high-throughput screening OR a PhD and postdoctoral experience in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Pharmacology or a related field with 2 years of related industry experience in cell-based assay development for pharmacology and high-throughput screening is required
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an innovation scientist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for innovation scientist
- Establish a research program to better understand the dynamics that occur during the first few years of life for both mothers/caregivers and babies, across several global regions
- Evaluate the market potential and technical feasibility of startup technology companies related to both mothers/caregivers and babies across several global regions
- Leverage their existing network and create new internal and external connections with experts
- Be well versed/experienced in state of the art methodologies within the field, will acquire data, analyze and interpret results
- Author peer reviewed journal articles and white papers related to their research where appropriate
- Work with cross-functional business teams and consumers on early innovation concept assessment and pipeline development
- Show creativity in recipe and product development and inspire teams to what may be possible through product innovation
- Manages complete or complex New Product Development and Innovation projects in breakfast cereals and granola / muesli with guidance as required from line manager
- Organises and as necessary executes and participates in bench scale prototyping, pilot plant tests and factory trials and captures relevant learnings
- Robust and complete project management and effective interaction in cross functional teams and with project stakeholders
Qualifications for innovation scientist
- Experience using detection methods, such as luminescence, fluorescence, absorbance and radiometric detection is required
- Expertise with 3D cell culture, synthetic biology, molecular modeling, structural and computational biology and/or phenotypic models is preferred
- Experience working with and guiding external collaborators in industry or academia is preferred
- Familiarity with phytochemical extraction and analysis is preferred
- The ability to prioritize projects, negotiate and influence is required
- The ability to work productively in a team setting are required
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Innovation Scientist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of innovation scientist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for innovation scientist
- Presents ongoing work and findings to colleagues at academic conferences
- Carries out peer reviews of written publications and presentations to validate theories and inform research
- Identify new financial services needs and create innovative technical solutions to address those needs
- Explore technologies for the collection, management, and analysis of large amounts of financial data
- Plan, prepare and execute proof-of-concepts with customers, and incorporate external feedback into the solutions
- Innovation and Core Renovation projects
- IIM tool application
- Quality improvement programs
- Management of brand maintenance issues
- Play a key role in ensuring complex projects are effectively performing based on agreed timetable
Qualifications for innovation scientist
- 3-6 years of a previous R&D experience in product development
- Experience in breakfast cereals or related categories is an asset
- Experienced in working with business teams and factories
- Min 5 years experience in management of complex projects with fast timelines
- Working experience in the food industry or R&D
- Proven track record of utilizing machine learning to develop advanced analytics on large datasets
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of innovation scientist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for innovation scientist
- Collaborate in cross-functional teams and interfaces regularly with RCT and Global RDQ
- Connect “What’s Needed” by the consumer and business with “What’s possible” in terms of product technology and design
- Design and execute packaging timelines, cost estimates, risk assessments, and project work for Laundry including all aspects of packaging - from primary package through shipping cases, unit load and point-of-purchase displays
- Identify cost saving opportunities on existing packaging, leveraging technical expertise while delivering on consumer and customer requirements
- Independently represent the packaging technical function within a project and to management, both inside and outside the company
- Work with vendors, Clorox plants and co-packers to assure package components are of high quality, efficiently produced and easily run on packaging lines
- Select and apply technology from internal and external sources to achieve business results
- Works independently, guided by functional processes and seeks input or guidance on complex matters
- As appropriate, lead cross-discipline project teams
- Become subject matter experts (SMEs) on the consumers and products related to their specific project
Qualifications for innovation scientist
- Master in Food Science or Chemical Engineering or a related discipline
- At least 1 year of research experience with financial services, preferably banking or insurance
- Experience developing insurance risk models or actuarial models are a plus
- Self-motivated and passionate about solving fintech and insuretech related issues with Big Data Analytics
- Ability to travel within the US and internationally at least 20% of the time – this requirement will vary based on client engagements
- Experience with large scale data analysis tools such as Spark, Hadoop, AWS experience is a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of innovation scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for innovation scientist
- Designing, planning, and executing the formulation / experiment / process, analyze the data, recommend corrective solution, and report the results
- Proactively interacting and collaborating with others in Technology, manufacturing plants, and the business, as necessary to complete the R&D responsibilities
- In vitro assay methodologies
- Immunohistochemistry
- PCR techniques
- Transcript profiling
- Cell-based bioassays [cell signalling, receptor/binding occupancy, cytotoxicity ] Chemokine/cytokine biology
- Immune cell analysis and assay
- Inflammatory assays
- Develop supervised, unsupervised and unstructured supervised models within the machine learning framework
Qualifications for innovation scientist
- At least 5 years of experience in deep learning / machine learning / data science development projects for innovative products
- Deep knowledge of ML/DL frameworks and NLP technologies
- Software development experience with Java, C++, JSON, Python, XML
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a lean product development process through rapid iteration
- Quantitative degrees from top universities (economics, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, operational research, financial engineering ) with outstanding academic results, advanced degrees with quantitative project experiences a plus
- 3+ years’ data analytics related work experience in a leading company in the industry