Food & Beverage Development Technologist
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Hitchin
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 27 Dec 2020
- Closes
- 24 Jan 2021
- Sectors
- Catering & Hospitality
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Pharmaceutical Manufacturer requires a Food & Beverage Development Technologist.
About the role:
An opportunity to join a dynamic, market leading company in an innovative role to develop and enhance our portfolio of botanical extracts and successfully utilise these across a broad range of food & beverage applications. To foster and nurture customer relationships, being highly responsive to customer related briefs as well as proactively generating and delivering presentations and concepts that highlight our expertise in the food & beverage sector.
This role is an integral part of the vision and ambition of the company. The successful candidate will help ensure that lab concepts are appropriately scaled up and successfully introduced to commercial production continuing the strong growth of our Food & Drink business.
Duties may include:
Development of great tasting food & beverage applications based on our existing extract portfolio
In line with market trends, research and develop new botanical extracts suitable for use in food & beverage applications
Have a sound understanding of beverage related recipes and formulations
Develop and nurture customer relationships with targeted key accounts
Identify and progress opportunities for new products/services to influence business strategy
Generate, support and lead the delivery of presentations and concepts to targeted customers
Successfully manage customer related projects providing timely feedback through the course of the development
Ensure a well-maintained extract related database and take advantage of concepts that have been previously well received
Maintain extract sample database to ensure the timely facilitation of customer sample requests
Take a leading role in ensuring that lab concepts can be successfully scaled through to commercial production
Generate appropriate technical documentation such as specifications, MSDS, formulation and manufacturing instructions
Actively encourage continuous improvement and idea generation within the wider team
Skills and experience:
Degree or relevant Science/Food Technology qualification
Experience within the beverage related industry and a proven track record in product development
Good team player and comfortable as an interface with wider functions across the business both internally and externally
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Have the ability to organise and lead meetings
Plans well and meets agreed schedules
About the role:
An opportunity to join a dynamic, market leading company in an innovative role to develop and enhance our portfolio of botanical extracts and successfully utilise these across a broad range of food & beverage applications. To foster and nurture customer relationships, being highly responsive to customer related briefs as well as proactively generating and delivering presentations and concepts that highlight our expertise in the food & beverage sector.
This role is an integral part of the vision and ambition of the company. The successful candidate will help ensure that lab concepts are appropriately scaled up and successfully introduced to commercial production continuing the strong growth of our Food & Drink business.
Duties may include:
Development of great tasting food & beverage applications based on our existing extract portfolio
In line with market trends, research and develop new botanical extracts suitable for use in food & beverage applications
Have a sound understanding of beverage related recipes and formulations
Develop and nurture customer relationships with targeted key accounts
Identify and progress opportunities for new products/services to influence business strategy
Generate, support and lead the delivery of presentations and concepts to targeted customers
Successfully manage customer related projects providing timely feedback through the course of the development
Ensure a well-maintained extract related database and take advantage of concepts that have been previously well received
Maintain extract sample database to ensure the timely facilitation of customer sample requests
Take a leading role in ensuring that lab concepts can be successfully scaled through to commercial production
Generate appropriate technical documentation such as specifications, MSDS, formulation and manufacturing instructions
Actively encourage continuous improvement and idea generation within the wider team
Skills and experience:
Degree or relevant Science/Food Technology qualification
Experience within the beverage related industry and a proven track record in product development
Good team player and comfortable as an interface with wider functions across the business both internally and externally
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Have the ability to organise and lead meetings
Plans well and meets agreed schedules