RD&A Technologist

Requisition ID: 56373 
Position Type: FT Permanent 
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About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The RD&A Technologist, Beverage provides know-how and specialist knowledge in the development of a range of food ingredients for the Beverage EUM (End Use Market), as well as troubleshoots customer lines to make them more suitable to work with our products to improve taste & nutrition.

The Beverage division, through its Taste and flavoring are one of our strongest throughout Kerry with aggressively looks for customer trends and innovative applications that provide our customer with competitive Taste and Nutrition solutions where they can leverage a clean label proposition while enhancing the benefits of having Beverage products on their labels.

• Kerry has a sales strategy to create the appropriate value proposition to our customers by adopting Insight Selling approach and methodology in order to:
• Improve how Kerry positions and differentiates itself with customers and prospects, executing on the “One Kerry” strategy.
• Deliver greater customer intimacy that leads to sustainable customer relationships.
• Improve key quantitative performance metrics: top line growth, opportunity size/win, and hit rate.
• Deliver powerful, insight-led messages to customers and prospects.
• Ensure commercial priority is to drive a high-quality total opportunity project bank and grow profitability.
   

Key responsibilities

• Development of new beverage applications to support customers.
• Create new and innovative beverage products such as Carbonated Soft Drinks, Alcoholic beverages and Fruit beverages.
• Work together with a cross functional team to develop integrated beverage solutions across all categories.
• Works with flavors team for evaluation of performance of Flavor products in application
• Provides input on Flavor collection needs.
• Links with other application groups to cross share knowledge
• Provides applications support for initiatives and Beverage Technology promotions.
• Has a competent understanding of operational systems to fulfil RD&A responsibility in product scale-ups and commercialization.
• Provides technical assistance in product evaluation to Sales, Customers, and other related departments.
• Maintains lab consumables, equipment, and ingredients in safe and hygienic storage; adheres to good laboratory practices and lab protocols.
• Keeps up to date on best practice and competitor benchmarking on product development to ensure Kerry's leadership position.
• Oversees preparation and shipment of RD&A sample requests.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering or related subjects
• A minimum of 2 to 5 years of Beverage R&D product development working experience with a proven track record. 
• Must be able to participate in the sensory evaluation of products and formulate products with flavours.
• An understanding of beverage equipment and other industry standards for beverage products and their processes would be desirable.
• Beverage flavour applications desirable.
• Understanding of interaction of Taste products within the food matrix and processing impact
• Ability to prepare and present a broad range of technology building blocks in final application as a Beverage essential,
• Good communication and presentation skills; innovative yet practical, with a flair for creating food and challenging why we do what we do.
• Experience in managing both internal and external relationships, Commercial & Sales teams, General Management, Customers etc.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work alone or within a multi-functional team.
• Willingness and attitude to learn quickly in a fast paced environment
• Will need to travel to customers within and outside Turkiye.
• Good command of English and Turkish Language.

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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