Dairy Application 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 are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

We seek a Dairy Application Specialist to focus on innovation and product development within Cargill’s ingredient portfolio, with an emphasis on dairy and dairy alternative applications. You will support new dairy and dairy alternatives product development initiatives. Your focus will be on innovation to help move ingredients from concept to commercialization while collaborating with other technical and business teams. Research efforts will also involve multifunctional interaction with commercial and technical service teams, as well as customers. In addition, this position will require flexibility to assist with other applications team projects and shorter term projects, as needed, using other ingredients across dairy and dairy alternative applications categories.

Key Accountabilities

• Plan, conduct research and experiments at lab or pilot plant scales and analyze results including interpretation and reporting of completed trial results.
• Work with marketing and sales to meet customer needs and making technical presentations to customers.
• Work with customers and business partners to identify and deliver on dedicated project opportunities.
• Prepare scientific reports or datasheets detailing the organization’s products and their applications.
• Assist with product demonstrations and serving as the domain expert during meetings with prospective customers.
• Tracks product issues and reporting data to product development teams.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in food technology or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated value creation and delivery of applications projects on time and budget
• Experience in dairy and dairy alternative
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD, Master degree in food technology of equivalent by experience
• 2-5 years of experience in dairy and dairy alternative with some experiences in nutrition
• Able and willing to work on product development using novel and/or non-GRAS food ingredients
• Comprehensive knowledge of ingredients: proteins, starches, hydrocolloids, oils and fats
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to partner and communicate effectively with counterparts in matrix organization

Our Offer

We 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.

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