Appetizers Food Scientist
McCain Foods
- Rilland, Zeeland
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Generate project briefs and timelines in collaboration with project team and commercial lead, ensuring adherence to project management principles.
- Developing products through the process in line with project management principles, following a brief to time, cost and quality expectations, providing full understanding of the process conditions agreed and ingredients used, ensuring all documentation is available from a project management and food safety perspective. Ensuring systems such as SAP, PLM and IMS are up to date.
- Present recommendations to the business on product feasibilities engaging cross functional support, highlighting risks and challenges with mitigating solutions.
- Develop implementation plans with commercial lead and manufacturing, ensuring smooth handover.
- Collaborate with commercial team to understand commercial aspects of projects and potential protectable IP
- Outcome:
- Product developed collaboratively with commercial and ISC teams to a realistic visible specification ensuring key stakeholders are kept up to date throughout.
- Communication:
- Maintain a good relationship, communicating internally with project team functions, any other associated departments and third party suppliers or manufacturers
- Internal R&D communication within CEU and broader regions
- Present products confidently and professionally with factual technical knowledge
- Regularly update the Senior Scientist and stakeholders as to status of projects and any changes to milestones
- Update at key business meetings such as ISG in a professional manner
- Contribute to all global and regional meetings bringing suggestions and updates helping to broaden the knowledge of the team overall
- Proactive Development:
- Proactively maintain technical knowledge in light of market advances both internally(globally) and externally sharing relevant information with the team.
- Leverage technical knowledge to provide input to the business strategy
- Proactive engagement in improving performance and team involvement
- Continuous improvement of work practices suggesting idea's to the process and team
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science or a related field preferred.
- 2yrs + of relevant and proven industry experience
- Needs to have hands on experience in a development environment and worked with manufacturing processes - Ideally experience in Cheese products.
- Passion for food innovation and a creative mindset.
- Experience working in a fast paced commercially driven Product Development environment (both frozen and chilled in branded or own label), working on all aspects in the development process including concept development, process development, factory/line trials, specifications and first production runs.
- Strong Project Management skills
- Fluency in Dutch and English is mandatory; knowledge of German is a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM software (nice to have Power BI).
- Exceptional organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Team player with a positive attitude and willingness to learn
- Mobility: willingness to travel between different sites in Rilland, Kruiningen, Lewedorp, and Villeneuve d'Ascq.
- Ability to work in an international environment with an international sales team
- A challenging but very rewarding role within an effective and international team (flat hierarchies).
- Global career growth and learning opportunities
- Competitive salary and attractive benefits
- Opportunity to work independently in a challenging and international environment
- Partial working from home is possible
- Friendly atmosphere