What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Scientist -Fresh Dairy position at Flora Food Group?
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories : butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Fresh Dairy Expert
New Century & Hugoton, Kansas
Your Role
- Fresh dairy and dairy plant alternatives R&D Sr. Scientist
- Flora brand US is split in 4 product categories : Spread and butters, UHT creams and creamers, fresh dairy plant substitute and plant-based cheese.
- We are searching a senior Scientist who can lead the product design for Fresh dairy and dairy alternatives type food, based in Kansas.
- As this is a growing team, we will add 1 or 2 Jr scientist to that team during 2025.
- Our R&D team will be equipped with a state-of-the-art pilot facility in order to support with all modern tools the required R&D actions to develop from scratch from lab via pilot to industrial launch.
- Key objective of the role :
- Leading the cream R&D product portfolio for all Fresh dairy and fresh dairy alternatives related projects, with Cream cheese Dairy / Plant), Sour cream Butter and butter blends for all channels (Retail, FS, private label, industrial)
- Translating consumer insights to designing together with the international R&D support and local Marketing new product extension and new product platforms
- Upscaling product idea from lab scale over pilot to Industrial Launch scale -
- Proactively translating and proposing business needs to build the funnels
- Continuously seeks for new opportunities to improve quality and cost and translating for upscale feasibly, in teamwork with the local and international R&D business partner in Wageningen Netherlands.
- Build together with the compliance team all necessary internal and external regulatory requirement of Specifications LOl Nutritional's
- Optimizing and building with marketing the new US product portfolio into the future
Requirements :
Min 10 years of R&D experience
Record proven skills for development from lab to market launch
What's next
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