Senior Industrial Bakery Advisor

A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a €3 billion turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and 96 nationalities.

On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners, and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food,  health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.

To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.

Working together to better nourish and protect the planet.

Within the Gulf Baking Center team, your are responsible for the expertise support to industrial customers within the Gulf area. You will work in close collaboration with the Industrial Key Account Manager.

You will actively participate in product development (yeast and ingredients), in products launching with industrial customers in your area, in close collaboration with the formulation team and the sales department.  

Key responsibilities

• Participating in the development and  innovations of products and services in collaboration with R&D teams
• Organizing industrial customers reception at the regional baking center and external baking centers of our distribution companies
• Baking trials: 
  • Realizing trials for product development in connection with the formulation team
  • Analyzing the results
  • Presenting the results in the existing standard documents (test sheets...) in order to allow the exploitation of the results by all concerned departments
• Realizing benchmarks for yeast and ingredients
• Providing technical assistance to our customers for the use of our products, analyse production processes to identify inefficiencies or areas for improvement
• Troubleshooting issues related to dough processing, baking and packaging in production of bread
• Providing theoretical and practical training for internal teams and customers, including trainings for local baking technicians
• Leading projects for customers to get technical/functional approval of current products or tailor-made product to start business
• Proposing new Lesaffre solutions to customers and also to other colleagues from the company
• Communicating with production manager, formulation, R&D manager and GM
• Monitoring market trends in bakery business and advising on product innovation strategies
• Recommending strategies to reduce the cost and optimize resources utilization with our products

Holding a baking certificate, you have minimum 15 years of experience in industrial breadmaking.

You master perfectly breadmaking techniques and associated ingredients (enzymes, sourdough…) and understand the baking industrial processes.

You are client oriented with excellent communication skills and you are able to adapt to various interlocutors in a multicultural context. You enjoy transfering your know-how and experience with our internal collaborators.

You are able to work on cross-functional projects requiring autonomy, initiative and anticipation.

You ensure the reliability and accuracy of information and are used to work with Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

You have a keen sense of confidentiality.

Frequent trips to be planned within the Gulf area