product development director.

Mifflintown, PA 17059 US
Job Type: FULL TIME
Hours / Week: 40
Work Hours: 1st Shift
Pay Range: $85,000.00 to $95,000.00 USD ANNUALLY

✓ Health Insurance
✓ Dental Insurance
✓ Vision Insurance
✓ 401(k)
✓ Vacation
✓ Holidays

Job Description:

• Manage end-to-end product development including formulation, ingredient sourcing, costing, pricing, nutritional labeling, shelf-life validation, packaging development and specification management.

Responsibilities:

• • Partner with the Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer to translate brand strategy and consumer insights into commercially viable product concepts.
• • Drive continuous improvement of existing products through cost optimization, process enhancements and quality improvements.
• • Collaborate with leadership to oversee creation and maintenance of product documentation, including sell sheets, customer specifications and buyer forms, ensuring accuracy, compliance and usability for Sales and Customer Service.
• • Develop and maintain product specifications for new and existing products, documenting revisions and maintaining change logs to support regulatory compliance and audit requirements.
• • Maintain and update company batch sheets for further-processed products, creating new documents and modifying existing ones while documenting all changes and rationale to ensure accuracy and traceability

Education: Bachelor Degree

• - BS/BA in food science, food technology, chemistry, or related field

Experience:

• - Minimum 7+ years of proven experience in developing and commercializing meat products; kosher meat experience a plus
• - Expertise in experimental design, process development, troubleshooting and technical data analysis
• - Knowledge of food safety and regulations and quality assurance practices

Related Experience: product development, meat, kosher

Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Classification: 11-9041.00
Post ID: STC-PSV-61023952
Post Date: 2026-04-09
Post Expires: 2026-05-09