Principal Scientist, Co-Drying & Dry Blending

Principal Scientist, Co-Drying & Dry Blending

Principal Scientist, Co-Drying & Dry Blending

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The duties and responsibilities of the Principal Scientist will include the following :

• Research dairy science, food science and equipment for the purpose of innovating new technologies and the development of intellectual property (IP) for the company
• Develop new wet and dry dairy systems, dairy flavors, dairy emulsions and solutions using the company’s plethora of ingredient options and manufacturing capabilities
• Utilizing the company’s expansive drying (and dry blending) network and capabilities to enhance the value of the company’s dried dairy products using a “what can we do with what we have?” mentality
• Work with engineering and process technology to continuously expand the company’s drying, dry blending, and agglomeration capabilities through discovery of new tech, equipment / process modification, and formulation
• Reformulate products as appropriate to reduce cost including building least cost / flexible formulation models encompassing the fluctuation commodity markets and raw material availability
• Perform applications testing simulating the customer’s end-use to ensure the products developed exceed the customer’s expectations for taste, functionality, and nutrition
• Utilize sensory science tools, available in the Innovation Center, to give data points to the customer demonstrating expectations are met / exceeded
• Perform pilot plant testing to ensure a successful scale-up for manufacturing and ultimately the end customer
• Drive the commercialization of new products by partnering with the process technology team in the plants
• Support the customer in scale-up and commercialization to ensure employees and products are part of the scale-up and launch
• Effectively operate all pilot plant equipment required to properly scale-up and test in application
• Develop effective concepts for benchtop sessions, in partnership with sales and marketing, to generate wins with customers
• Support sales in determining customer needs, problems, insights, and strategy that would ultimately require our solution
• Proactively initiate action plans to develop the solutions and capabilities
• Inspire and excite customers through demonstration of unique new products and applications that are relevant to their consumers
• Partner with sales to understand customer’s future needs, their brands, and strategies to anticipate new areas of capability development and innovative ideas for end-use categories
• Provide technical and applications expertise to support the customer
• Drive opportunities to commercialization internally and close with the customer process and adhere to the Scientific Development Standards Process, including version control, development notes and documented learnings
• Effectively utilize CRM (Salesforce.com) as a tool to manage status of the opportunities, project milestones in the pipeline and track KPIs related to the opportunity pipeline continually improving our R&D service to customers, ultimately leading to faster speed-to-market driving increased customer connectivity
• Collaborate with and influence technical sales, customer support and other stakeholders to “solve for yes”
• Contribute to technical content and review presentations for sales and marketing
• Provide effective, timely and relevant reporting to leadership
• Apply strong knowledge of the company’s capabilities – including understanding the functional and technical aspects of the products and how our capabilities differentiate us from others in the industry
• Demonstrate a “never stop learning” mindset and influence others to adopt this mindset

Job Requirements

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