(Sr.) Development Specialist Ambient

Join FrieslandCampina as a (Sr.) Development Specialist Ambient

About the Role

The (Sr.) Development Specialist Ambient works on innovation and renovation projects for Private Label. Working for Private Label customers is exciting, fast and pragmatic and requires agility in execution. With innovation for private label you can make impact as it drives immediate scale!

Projects have a high level of complexity e.g. with capex, multidisciplinary, with high-level stakeholders, involving new technology or processes, outsourcing, with substantial impact on product properties in an international setting.

The senior development specialist works proactively and independently on key projects, in cases leading other R&D colleagues in the project, and taking on the role of a technical lead and key contact for Private Label customers.

What we ask

• MSc. or PhD, food physics/chemistry, sensory science, food processing, engineering or any other relevant field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience (product development ambient dairy) in an R&D environment.
• Extended Dairy knowledge in e.g. ambient dairy drinks, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, milk powders or product category based on similar technology.
• Recipe development from sensory, physical-chemical and nutritional perspective.
• Analytical, quality and result driven.

What we offer

• Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence.
• We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package.
• Competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home.
• Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey.
• Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths.
• A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners.
• Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world.
• Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy.

Vacancy Description

Drive New Product Development and Value Engineering processes:

• Use practical and theoretical expertise (ingredients, recipes, processes, product-pack relations, product validations, analyzing methods, project management) in at least 1 of the following fields: ambient dairy drinks, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, milk powders or product category based on similar technology.
• Coaches other product developers and/or students in projects.
• Improves existing and defines new procedures / ways-of-working.

Vision development and strategy input:

• Act as an expert in at least one of the above product categories, building out your own expertise and defining knowledge gaps
• Translate new research and technology into application.
• Show curiosity and be open to exploring new insights from multiple sources and angles (including outside of FrieslandCampina).

Interactions and relation management:

• Be the key contact for Private Label internal stakeholders and for key customers.
• Build and maintain a complete internal and external relation network e.g. other R&D teams, other disciplines (QA, SC, MKT, procurement…), suppliers, outsourcing partners.
• Represent R&D from all aspects within complex projects and discussions.
• Actively address issues, communicated impact & recommends solutions taking into account business priority and potential.

Our Company

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.

All 20,000 employees at FrieslandCampina share a single passion: getting more out of milk and aim to help people move forward in life. With our brands over 30 we reach millions of people in more than 100 countries. FrieslandCampina consists of a number of business groups and operating companies with offices all around the world. The head office is located in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

You will be part of the Europe, Retail & Americas development team of about 40 R&D colleagues in the Innovation Centre of Wageningen. Within this larger team you work in a team of 12 Development Specialists, who mainly work on cheese. This team is working in close cooperation with BG Retail & Americas, BG Europe, BG MEPA and Supply Chain.

Contact

Esther.vanSchoonhoven@frieslandcampina.com