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At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.\nMcCormick employees - all 14,000 of us across the world - are what makes this company a great place to work.\nMcCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Scientist II, Innovation. This new hire will work at theTechnical Innovation Center locate in Hunt Valley, MD.\nWhat We Bring To The Table:\nThe best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:\nCompetitive compensation\nCareer growth opportunities\nFlexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices\nPosition Overview\nThe position of Scientist II Innovation is responsible for leading McCormick’s innovation efforts through basic research and development of new and novel flavor-related technologies. These technology developments relate to McCormick’s model food system technology platform. Within this role, Senior Scientist Innovation is required to exemplify many scientific inquiry characteristics necessary to assist the MFS Research & Innovation Group in developing and evaluating flavor ingredients in existing model food systems and newly created systems. This role requires initiating, leading, and managing model food research projects from conceptual experimentation to process and technology demonstration. The position requires applying the scientific method to conduct research and report findings, conclusions, and executive recommendations within internal confidential reports or in industrial or academic domains, including scientific papers, invention disclosures, patent applications, and customer meetings.\nThe Scientist Innovation role requires understanding the pilot or commercial-scale plant equipment operations necessary for scale-up and demonstration of flavor products and applications through Business Unit Group and customer-inspired projects.\nThis position is responsible for outlining scale-up/demonstration processes and selecting appropriate prototype flavor products to support internal and external customer needs. This role assists in prototype formulation, flavor application, and building technical credibility with external customers through project interaction and reporting. This role may require supervising associate scientists, technicians, and research assistants as needed.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeveloping flavor systems and model food systems\nProject Management: Plan and lead projects, define and assess project requirements, and experimental design.\nInvestigating and assessing new ingredients and technologies.\nProvide support for model food system evaluation support to the Optify team\nInterface and communicate project status with stakeholders and R&I teammates.\nSupervise, instruct, and train employees\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree with 5-10 years of experience, Master’s degree with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year of experience. Degree work should be in biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, food science, or related disciplines.\nExtensive knowledge of food ingredients and technologies for food, pharmaceutical, and beverage applications.\nExtensive knowledge of using various ingredients for taste modification and a broad understanding of flavor interactions in different products (grains, proteins, beverages, confections, and pharmaceuticals).\nExtensive knowledge in performing scientific experiments, statistical data analysis, and writing scientific publications, including invention disclosures, patent applications, industrial journal reviews, and seminar literature.\nSkilled in sensory science with the ability to conduct small group discrimination, descriptive, and affective test.\nGeneral understanding of data science and the development of both statistical projection models and machine learning models.\nKnowledge in bench-top process scale-up and pilot scale processing.\nExperience with customer-focused technology development and project management for technology transfer and commercialization. \nExperience with new product commercialization- strategic business planning for new product commercialization including:Pre-incubation and ideation\nTechnical feasibility study\nCost modeling and Return of Investment (ROI) analysis\nSWOT analysis, market analysis, and value proposition\nCommercialization document drafting\n\nExperienced interpersonal communications and research management skills are required-interface experience with industry peers to develop open innovation and industry-relevant technologies.\nAbility to communicate effectively through written and oral communications with customers, interdepartmental groups, and business leaders as appropriate.\nProven intellectual curiosity and self-starter, collaborative behavior.\nAbility to influence others and do so in a leadership role. This role occasionally interfaces externally, requiring excellent communication, presentation, and report-writing skills are necessary.\nProblem-solving - Ability to interpret data and solve complex problems with incomplete information. Ability to manage risk and make critical decisions.\nCollaboration - Project management and ability to interact, seek advice, teach, influence, and negotiate. Demonstrate the ability to influence across the organization.\nCommunication -excellent written and verbal communication.\nExcellent computer skills - Includes the ability to make presentations that cover technical topics, R&D capabilities\nPreferred Qualifications\nBS and 5 years’ experience in working for a Food company or MS or Ph.D. in Food Science/Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field\n\nAs a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.\nMcCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n===\nBase Salary: $72,000 - $122,500\nBase salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience for this role, and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormick’s Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan. In addition to a competitive compensation package, permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:\n- Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits\n- Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support\n- Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans","description_format":"text","description_chars":7068,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Growth opportunities","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Condiments, Sauces & Spices","Food Ingredients"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T23:26:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:24","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":122500,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mccormick-scientist-ii-innovation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mccormick-scientist-ii-innovation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T07:17:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9202,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1761649},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1761649"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmccormick-scientist-ii-innovation"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmccormick-scientist-ii-innovation"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmccormick-scientist-ii-innovation"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mccormick-scientist-ii-innovation\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmccormick-scientist-ii-innovation"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3648305}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mccormick.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3648305},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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