Specialized Nutrition Specialist

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Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.Job Purpose and ImpactThe Specialized nutrition specialist will provide technical expertise to new product development for product line growth and technology and process development for the creation of new capabilities. In this role, you will coordinate with other scientists to innovate new product development in the specialized nutrition category by identifying and implementing technical solutions to meet business goals.Key Accountabilities

• Identify product growth and new product opportunities.
• Analyse and interpret market data to take advantage of opportunities and minimize adverse trends.
• Stay abreast of current literature and analytical advancements.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership on products, process development and improvement, quality systems and regulatory oversight.
• Partner and stay connected with cross functional teams that include marketing, insights, sales, regulatory, core R&D, customer facing technical team.
• Provide findings and analysis with insights, research and commercial brand to develop short and long term testing programs for experimental and commercial products and hybrids.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

QualificationsMinimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working in an applied food research environment
• Experience working successfully in a matrixed organization
• Two or more years combined professional experience in the following areas: protein formulation development, ingredient functionality and product commercialization.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience in specialized nutrition

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or other post-secondary degree in food chemistry, food technology, chemistry, human and medical nutrition or other related field
• 4+ years or related work experience in human or medical nutrition or other related field detailed knowledge about ingredient categories that are relevant for specialized nutrition category
• Basic understanding of regulatory requirements relevant to category focus area.
• Understanding of production technologies used for final applications and making Specialized Nutrition products
• Understanding of ingredient functionality for development of specialized Nutrition products
• Experience in product development in specialized nutrition category
• Experience in project management for good outcomes
• Organized, structured, good communication skills

Our OfferWe provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargillCargill is committed to being an inclusive employer. Click here to find out more https://careers.cargill.com/diversity/