Formulation, Nutrition and Ingredients Platform Manager - Nestlé Purina Petcare AOA

About the Role

Location: Head Office (Hybrid)
Company: Nestlé Thailand
Business Unit/Division: Technical and Production
Employment: Full-time

Lead regional formulation, nutrition, and ingredients strategies to create competitive, science‑driven pet food products across multiple factories in the AOA region.

Responsibilities

• Lead formulation, nutrition, and ingredient solutions for complex I&R projects and support deployment of the regional I&R strategy.
• Support marketing and technical teams in deploying regional I&R plans and translate consumer insights into product concepts.
• Ensure product compliance with global nutritional standards and local regulations.
• Drive formula optimization across factories with focus on sustainability, cost reduction and complexity reduction.
• Lead ingredient development and validation to enable least‑cost formulation; oversee VAM/VIA processes and maintain ingredient policies.
• Develop and guide a team of formulators, nutritionists and ingredient specialists; identify gaps and build training plans.
• Partner with Marketing, QA, Regulatory, PTC/R&D, Engineering, Supply Chain and factory teams; act as the technical interface with universities, suppliers and regulatory bodies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related; MBA/Master’s is a plus.
• At least 7 years' experience, preferably as a petfood nutritionist/formulator; horizontal experience in QA, RSA/Manufacturing or related positions in petfood acceptable.
• Good knowledge of general petfood processes (dry, wet and treats).
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in large multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to travel internationally is required.
• Experience in people leadership and development is a plus.