Senior Product Technologist Dairy Cream Alternatives

 

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.  

 

Location: Wageningen 

Hybrid 

About the position 

 You’ll work from our Wageningen Food Science Centre, with State-of-the-Art labs, pilot plant and professional application kitchen.  Where innovations are designed and tested, before upscaling into the factory and brought to market.  

What will your working day look like as Senior Product Technologist for dairy cream alternatives: 

• Project management: Lead the technical deliverables of global design and/or transfer projects in a cross functional team. 

• Product Development: Design the ingredients and process for the best quality products preferred by consumers and customers. 

• Design the experiments with a data driven mindset, building on scientific hypothesis. To create the Best ever Products, preferred by consumers and customers 

• Lead and execute lab and pilot plant trials to test and refine (plant & hybrid) creams formulations. 

• Test & optimize your product and process design in analysis in the laboratory, (kitchen) applications with chefs, with sensory panels, consumers and customers. 

• Collaborate with other product developers, science/material/processing experts and process engineers to conduct experiments and create the data the learn in the smartest way. 

• Lead the scale up of innovations and/or renovations to enable commercial production collaborating with supply chain colleagues. 

• Lead root-cause analysis of production issues within the factories. 

• You will define and write the specifications of the proven products and processes 

• Stay abreast of industry trends, scientific advancements, and consumer insights to drive product innovation. 

• Ensure that product development is done against local preferences and complies with local regulatory requirements and industry standards such as food safety, quality and labelling. 
• Travel when required, for workshops, supplier visits and scale up trials in the factory
   

Need more details? 

• As our creams Product Technologist & Technical Project Leader, you will be part of the creams product design team, reporting into the Product Development Manager.  

• You will develop products with a global scope. 

• You will be leading innovation, renovation and cost saving projects. In multidisciplinary teams with colleagues from marketing, sales, supply chain, quality, etc. 

• You are responsible for delivering the projects on time and within budget 

• What do we mean by hybrid? Flexible working, to make sure you can do your work effectively. Including lab/pilot plant work on site and travel to factories where needed. 

• Next to product development, you will contribute to the quality control of laboratory methods and equipment. 
• This role gives a lot of opportunities to continue developing yourself, both as product developer and as a project leader.
   

So, what does it take to be successful in this role? 

You are a team player with a can-do mentality, holding a bachelor's or master's degree in food Processing, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering, or a similar field. You possess relevant work experience as a product developer in creams, dairy, dairy alternatives, ice cream, sweet creams or simi