Scientist, Product Development (Tea), R&D

Job Description Summary:

Please note: The selected candidate will need to be based in Singapore CPS Plant (Tuas Bay). This is an Individual Contributor position.

Our ASEAN & South Pacific (ASP) Innovation Center sits at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth. We are committed to transforming and evolving our organization and ambitions — bringing our people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization to enable sustainable growth. We are looking for a highly driven individual contributor who thrives on ownership and impact, and who fuels the innovation pipeline with bold ideas that translate into real-world results. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about challenging assumptions, unlocking opportunity, and personally driving valuable breakthrough innovation within the Tea category. You will apply deep product development expertise to lead tea innovation from concept to execution, contributing to a strong and diverse global and regional Tea portfolio — accelerating growth and helping shape the future of the category.

As Scientist, Product (Tea), you will bring tea concepts to life through hands-on formulation, testing, and commercialization. You will work closely with the Global Tea GDI team and regional stakeholders, applying consumer insights and digital tools to ensure products meet taste, quality, regulatory, stability, cost, and manufacturing requirements. This is an execution-focused role for a technically curious problem-solver with strong bench skills and a consumer-centric mindset, who wants to deepen expertise in tea-based beverages while contributing to high-impact innovation launches.

What You’ll Do for Us:

Create Tea Prototypes & Formulations

• Develop lab-scale tea beverage recipes (bases, syrups, and finished beverages) driven by global and regional consumer insights, following GMP and company protocols.

• Analyze global formulas to identify harmonization, lift & shift, and localization opportunities within the Tea portfolio.

Test, Learn, Improve

• Conduct sensory, analytical, and shelf-life testing in collaboration with Microbiology and Stability teams.

• Independently execute stability evaluations, including visual assessment, analytical testing requests, and accelerated testing (illumination and temperature protocols).

• Track, document, and interpret results, and clearly communicate findings and recommendations.

Scale Up for Market

• Support pilot and commercial trials for tea innovations, ensuring formulation robustness, ingredient feasibility, cost targets, and packaging compatibility.

Category & Competitive Insights

• Track and analyze global competitor tea products to identify learnings and opportunities for TCCC.

• Prepare samples for consumer tests and internal tastings; organize and lead tasting sessions, including materials, feedback capture, and documentation.

Collaborate Broadly

• Partner closely with Global and Regional GDI, Marketing, SRA, Supply Chain, Packaging, Quality, TCR, Chemistry/Analytical, Ingredient Quality, and Product Commercialization teams.

• Contribute technical insights to cross-functional discussions under manager or project lead guidance.

Maintain Excellence

• Own accurate formula entry and updates in formula management systems.

• Maintain high standards in lab safety, documentation, data integrity, and record retention.

• Keep lab equipment and workspaces compliant and audit-ready.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, Biology, or related fields.

• 5–8 years of experience in product development, preferably in beverages; tea experience is a strong advantage.

• Understanding of beverage formulation, ingredient functionality, and processing fundamentals.

• Familiarity with sensory evaluation, analytical testing, and shelf-life assessment.

• Ability to:

  • Connect daily technical work to project and business goals.

  • Apply consumer and competitor insights to product design.

  • Analyze problems independently and propose practical, science-based solutions.

  • Deliver high-quality technical work with increasing autonomy.

  • Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Lead by example and informally mentor others as needed.

• Fluency in English; additional regional languages are a plus.

• Regional and International Travel up to 10–15%.

Why Join Us?

• Hands-On Innovation: Work at the bench, pilot, and plant stages to turn ideas into finished products.

• Build Skills with Global Support: Access Coca-Cola’s worldwide technical network, learn from experts, and grow your capabilities.

• Digital-Forward Development: Use modern tools to simulate, test, and accelerate innovation.

• External Ecosystem Exposure: Collaborate with suppliers, startups, and ingredient innovators to bring new technologies into the category.

• Inclusive, Collaborative Culture: Work alongside diverse teams, in an environment that values curiosity, agility, and problem-solving.

What can help you to be successful in the role?

Growth Behavior:

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.

• Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

• Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

• Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

Leadership Behavior

• Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

• Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.

What We Can Do For You 

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.

• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.

Skills:

Chemistry, Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Data Compilation, Environmental Science, Food Safety and Sanitation (Inactive), Food Sciences, Food Technology, Green Solutions, Laboratory Testing, Leadership, Microbiological Test, Product Development, Quality Control (QC), Researching, Sensory Testing, Sustainability, Waterfall Model

Location(s):

Singapore

City/Cities:

Singapore

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

July 15, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.