This wide-ranging career area within R&D includes product, process, packaging, food safety and quality development disciplines. Here, these bright-minded scientists, engineers, and technicians turn their collective knowledge, insights, and discoveries into real-world applications and food solutions that people and pets love. These team members are typically dedicated to a particular business, brand, and technology space and work on an integrated basis with a cross-functional business team.

Inspired and encouraged to go well beyond current food applications and imagine what’s possible, this team measures its success by the number and impact of solutions that are adopted by General Mills. Dedicated to their technical craft, each member is passionate about providing solutions of the greatest value and producing intellectual property for competitive advantage. Our research is focused on deep expertise hubs across technical areas such as packaging, process engineering, raw materials, sustainability, and food systems.

Ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality foods that meet a variety of consumer needs, this is a trusted team of global food safety, quality, and regulatory-compliance experts. Playing a key role in every phase of the product lifecycle, these professionals enjoy a unique vantage point where supply chain stakeholders, businesses, consumers, customers, external partners, and regulators all connect and contribute valuable input.

Providing unique opportunities for analytics, data science, and information science professionals, this discipline is responsible for helping to discover new ideas through the use of consumer insights gleaned from social media, discovering digital-first principle models, enabling the use of artificial intelligence, and automating select tastes to deliver faster, better solutions.

The Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition is a dedicated team of master- and doctorate-level nutritionists, scientists, and registered dietitians whose mission is to be the trusted partner grounded in health and nutrition science that accelerates opportunity and growth for General Mills. This team drives nutrition opportunities to generate and leverage research for our brands and categories, amplifies communications to advance our reputation for health and nutrition, provides leadership in regulatory and policy engagement, and utilizes business partnerships to drive nutrition solutions.

Care to try something new—every day? The Experimentation Lab is led by hands-on experts with the capabilities to fuel our always-on experimentation engine and support the growth of established and new teams. Our passion is to de-risk innovation and get breakthrough food products to market safely and quickly. Opportunities include leading lean innovation coaching, digital experimentation, in-context experimentation, and sensory design.

At General Mills, innovation is a team sport. So, we created our Innovation Academy to inspire everyone here to speak the same language and work as one. We provide clarity and consistency in our innovation language and process as we upskill our organization with the most state-of-the-art approaches and curated best practices, all of which helps to improve our product success rate. External orientation, innovation expertise, and coaching skills are key to positions in this area.

Do you agree that ideas drive success? This entrepreneurial studio is focused on building our next growth engine by resolving critical, consumer food-related issues. Each of our initiatives is led by a small co-founder team supported by an innovation pod and a venture think tank type of growth board to meter funding. Our work is complex, but the idea behind it is simple: De-risk the business with rigorous experimentation before implementing it on the global scale of General Mills.

Innovation is a smart bet for strong returns. Which is why 301Inc—Corporate Venture Capital, the venture capital arm of General Mills, invests in only the most promising, disruptive emerging food brands and capabilities. Presenting opportunities to apply your expertise in such areas as food safety, quality, claims, and product development, this team helps us make informed decisions about each investment and enhances topline growth.

ITQ is committed to delivering solutions that reduce the impact of packaging. Not only are we reducing packaging, but we are also on track to realize our goal of making 100% of our global packaging recyclable or reusable by 2030.

Unlike most other consumer packaged goods companies, General Mills has an in-house agricultural research team. Performing our own studies and research efforts, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and advancing regenerative agriculture, two measures essential to preserving and protecting the planet we all share. As a big food producer, we know that we can make a big impact on the world by bringing science and action to the greenhouse gas and climate challenge.

Diversity in all forms drives innovation, and we believe innovation thrives when and where our differences interface. Diversity is not just the right thing to do; it is good for our business. So, we provide an inclusive workspace where everyone knows they belong. To ensure that all voices are heard and team members are engaged, we have established ITQ employee networks and allyship programs that provide inspiration, development, community, and connection for individuals with similar backgrounds and interests.