Junior Product Developer

Join us in Specialised Nutrition to develop the next generation of Friso products for infants and toddlers!

Within FrieslandCampina Innovation, the Friso ROW (Rest of World) team develops new and improved products and processes for infants and toddlers, both healthy and for infants with special medical needs, for focus countries of Rest of the World (ROW) (MX, GR, MY & VN); Greater China (CN & HK) and Cross Border E-Commerce (CBEC). For this vulnerable target group, quality is critical, and as a Junior Product Developer, you will participate in new product development, compliance, and optimization projects. In multidisciplinary project teams, you create and implement innovative and improved products for the global Friso brand.

What we ask

• Master's degree in Food Technology or Chemistry
• Relevant experience with NPD, preferably in food or infant or medical nutrition area.
• Experienced in recipe design and knowledge of product-process interactions is desired.
• Experience with SAP PLM is a plus.
• Demonstratable understanding of data processing and statistics
• Good communication and presentation skills in English
• You have an open attitude, are analytical with a quality focus and work well both independently and within a team.
• You are customer focused and are able to act with speed and decisiveness to achieve the best results.
• You take responsibility for your work and are continuously looking for new opportunities to make a change.

What we offer

• A unique company culture rooted in Dutch heritage with a strong international presence.
• Excellent work-life balance supported by a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• A 38-hour workweek, competitive pension scheme, 8% holiday allowance, 3% year-end bonus, performance-based bonus scheme, flexible working hours, and opportunities to work from home.
• Access to diverse training and mentoring programs to support your professional development.
• Exceptional opportunities for cross-disciplinary growth, enabling you to expand your knowledge and career horizons within the company.
• A friendly, informal, yet professional working environment with supportive team members as sparring partners.
• Autonomy and trust to create long-term impact, contributing to our mission of bringing better nutrition to the world.

Vacancy description

Within FrieslandCampina Innovation, the Friso ROW (Rest of World) team develops new and improved products and processes for infants and toddlers, both healthy and for infants with special medical needs, for focus countries of Rest of the World (ROW) (MX, GR, MY & VN); Greater China (CN & HK) and Cross Border E-Commerce (CBEC). For this vulnerable target group, quality is critical, and as a Junior Product Developer, you will participate in new product development, compliance, and optimization projects. In multidisciplinary project teams, you create and implement innovative and improved products for the global Friso brand. We challenge you to bring in your expertise to develop our next generation nutritional concepts.

Your main accountabilities will be as follows:

• Participate in New Product Development projects under guidance.
• Build and share know-how and vision in the field of infant & toddler nutrition.
• Use and build a stakeholder network, both internal within FC R&D and external.
• Plan, prepare and carry out pilot and production scale trials in close collaboration with pilot plant and Supply Chain and analyse, interpret, and report results to key stakeholders.

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.

We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

You will be part of the Friso ROW cluster within the business group Specialized Nutrition, located in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Your team, Friso ROW, consists of 9 other product developers of different nationalities. Within this team, you are exposed to work in key innovation projects for business group Specialized Nutrition for Friso ROW and Greater China with a multidisciplinary team and stakeholders, including marketing, regulatory, supply chain, QA, development, compliance team, raw material specification team.