Senior Application Technologist - Savoury

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Senior Application Technologist - Savoury, your future role?

Do you grow at the forefront of food development, wielding flavour as your artistic medium? If you understand savoury profiles, have an affinity to savoury products and aspire to shape the sensory experiences of tomorrow, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity based in Colombia.

Join our renowned team and report directly to the Technical Manager of Andean and Central America regions (Ancam) as a Senior Food Application Technologist. You will work developing flavours application for Savoury products, providing technical expertise to increase our operational excellence and to meet our customers' expectations, contributing to the growth of our Taste & Wellbeing (T&W) business in Ancam.

You will work on site in our T&W corporate facilities in Bogota, Colombia.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Lead innovation in flavour Application

• Partner with different teams and with our customers to design captivating savoury food products.
• Accomplish daily brief-related tasks including Savoury flavour selection, product evaluation, and application development.
• Lead evaluations of flavours in Savoury applications for briefs, research projects and portfolio evaluations.
• Select best flavours for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, cost) and suggest improvements for the most common applications in dairy products.
• Identify appropriate flavour delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications.
• Develop product bases and finished product formulations to replicate market products to evaluate and support product development for our customers.

Knowledge sharing & expertise

• Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavour creation, and customers for Savoury products.
• Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists.

Data maintenance

• Maintain the flavour performance data for the flavour portfolio through evaluation in finished Savoury products and capture of profiles.

Environmental Health & Safety

• Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment following EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines.

You

If you are you someone who wants to shape your world, who excels in being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment, who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are, then join us - and improve your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• University Degree in Food Science, Food Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology with Master's degree or postgraduate studies in related area.
• At least 6 years of experience in Savoury products in the food industry (application, product development, or related area), including categories such as processed meat, snacks, soup, sausage and others related. This is a must-have.
• Experience in Savoury products applications, ingredients, and processes with practical experience in customers' food manufacturing environment, must-have.
• Understanding of the flavour reactions/interactions in Savoury products.
• Experience translating market trends into products for selected customers.
• Experience instructing technicians and technologists.
• Plant scale experience to support production startup for customers.
• Experience in customer projects including customer visits.
• Upper intermediate English level, both oral and written.

Our benefits

• Annual bonus.
• Healthcare & medical plan.
• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
• International working environment.
• Discounts program.
• Quality of Life program.

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