Senior Food Scientist & Accelerator - Lab Driver

 

At Tetra Pak we commit to making food safe and available, everywhere; and we protect what's good – protecting food, protecting people, and protecting the planet. By doing so we touch millions of people's lives every day. 

And we need people like you to make it happen.

We empower you to reach your potential with opportunities to  make an impact to be proud of – for food, people and the planet.

 

Job Summary

Marketing at Tetra Pak is unlike any other Marketing area in a B2B company. Our mission is to drive sustainable profitable growth by bringing forward what matters the most, our customers and their consumers. We leverage on our Marketing services, business insights and company’s end to end portfolio to ensure our customers’ success.

We invite pioneering minds to join us as a Senior Food Scientist and Accelerator Lab (A-Lab) Driver, a vital role in leading our A-Lab's journey from early stage concepts to prototypes that solidify marketing concepts and reinforce our customer’s decision-making processes.

This is a permanent position, and you will be based in Lund, Sweden and report to the Customer Experience Manager. Travelling for this role amounts to approximatively 20%. 

What you will do

As our Senior Food Scientist & A-Lab Driver, you will be the leader for the Accelerator Lab’s operation and maintenance.

Main responsibilities:

• Concept development and prototyping: Lead the materialization of early-stage concepts through prototypes, ensuring they are in alignment with market trends and consumer needs
• Product development: Lead the product development lifecycle from conceptualization, through testing phases, to product formulation ready to move into pilot trials
• A-Lab management: Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Accelerator Lab, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards
• Line manager responsibility: You will be responsible for one food scientist at the A-Lab
• Customer engagement: Present and validate formulated prototypes with customers to garner feedback and enhance formulations before industrial pilot trials
• Cross functional collaboration: Engage with ingredient houses and external partners to utilize external knowledge and resources in prototype development

We believe you have

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Food Engineering, Food Science, or related field.
• Experience & Technical Expertise: A minimum of 5 years in food product development with a rich portfolio of transforming concepts to market-ready products. Deep knowledge of food formulations, ingredient functionality, and product development. Food processing & Sensory Analysis experience is a great plus, especially in regard to liquid foods & beverage solutions.
• Project Management Experience: You have 2+ years of experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Leadership: A desire to drive a team to deliver on quality and productivity. A previous experience on managing teams is considered a plus.
• Not mandatory but valued: Previous experience operating UHT systems & high-pressure homogenisers in a laboratory or pilot setting. Previous experience within Dairy technology, JNSD, ‘’functional’’ food products/FSN, plant-based products and/or UHT products is meritorious.

The professional skills needed in this role, besides to be customer centric, is strategic thinking and ability to explain / translate food science language into consumer / marketing language. You  can navigate uncertainty and rapid changes in a grounded manner keeping always the big picture in focus. You have a good sense of prioritisation and can handle projects with a fast tempo. You are a technical person with a good communication skills and strong business acumen.

We believe you are a person that gets energized of meeting new challenges and have a positive attitude focusing on finding solutions. You have excellent communication, coordination and collaboration skills and you are curious about creativity within the food sphere. Furthermore, you are pro-active, flexible, accurate and enjoy taking responsibility.
Fluency in written and spoken English is a requirement.

We Offer You

• A variety of exciting challenges with ample opportunities for development and training in a truly global landscape
• A culture that p