Nestlé Operational Services Worldwide SA

Digital Food Safety Early Warning Specialist

📍 Lausanne

Role and responsibilities

Strengthening proactive food safety early warning by scouting and evaluating emerging issues across priority contaminant areas. Identifying and assessing internal and external data sources that improve the detection, prioritization, and scientific evaluation of early signals. Driving the evaluation and deployment of digital technologies that enhance data-driven detection of emerging food safety topics. Coordinating the testing and validation of prototypes that help transform early warning processes into scalable digital solutions. Building strong scientific collaborations that connect research, technology, and business needs to protect consumers. Delivering project activities with focus, rigor, and follow-through to support impactful food safety decisions.

Team / description

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Qualifications and Skills

  • Bringing basic chemistry knowledge and a good understanding of chemical contaminants, including how they can emerge, evolve, and impact food safety.

  • Applying knowledge of food safety and quality processes in the context of supply chains, incident occurrence, issue evolution, and potential consumer impact.

  • Using data and digital technologies in a food safety context, ideally to support data-driven risk assessment, root-cause analysis, and early warning decision-making.

  • Collaborating effectively with diverse internal and external partners, while translating research into practical business impact.

  • Communicating fluently in English; working proficiency in French is a plus.

  • Bringing collaboration, fresh thinking, bold questions, respect, and a positive, wellbeing-oriented mindset.