Senior Application Specialist Sugar Confectionery
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Update day: 16-11-2025
Location: Vilvoorde Flemish Brabant
Category: Executive management Marketing / PR Production / Operation Mechanical / Technical Maintenance Sales
Industry: Industrie
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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 Impact
The Senior Application Specialist Sugar Confectionery focuses on innovation and product development within Cargill’s ingredient portfolio, with an emphasis on sugar confectionery applications. You will support new sugar confectionery product development initiatives to help move ingredients from Concept to commercialization while collaborating with other technical and business teams. Your 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, including using other ingredients.
Location: Open for candidates based or willing to relocate in Vilvoorde, Belgium Key Accountabilities
- Work with key customers and business partners to identify and deliver on dedicated project opportunities.
- Partner with marketing and sales to meet customer needs and make technical presentations to customers.
- Run product demonstrations and serve as the expert during these meetings.
- Lead product issues, report data to product development teams, and monitor scientific reports or datasheets detailing the organization’s products and their applications.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in food technology or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
- Experience in sugar confectionery space
- Comprehensive knowledge of ingredients: starches, sweeteners and hydrocolloids
- Master degree in food technology of equivalent by experience
- 10 year of experience in sugar confectionery space
- Good knowledge and understanding of different product categories within the sugar confectionery space
- Understanding the impact of ingredient selection and ingredient interactions in different product categories of sugar confectionery
- Strong knowledge or experience with different processes applied in sugar confectionery space
- Understanding the impact of production processes on final product quality both on pilot and industrial scale
- Open attitude, good interpersonal skills and excellent team player
- Understanding the customers’ needs, knowledge of value proposition design
- Innovative mindset: e.g. identifying attractive new ingredient and new-end products possibilities/solutions
- Networking, connectivity, being able to work in matrix organization
- Project management skills
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.
Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:
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Deadline: 31-12-2025
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