Sweet Applications Technical Team Lead

Sweet Applications Technical Team Lead needed to lead a small team of 2-3 dairy/sweet flavor application specialists, as core member of a larger Dairy team at the company’s Dairy Center of Excellence based in Kansas.  This position drives and coordinates customer facing and internal projects utilizing creativity, innovation, and presentation skills to provide best-in-class support to our clients.  Continues to extend knowledge of ingredients, customer bases, processes, and flavor interactions in category applications.

The essential functions of this position include but are not limited to the following:

Project Management

• Proven time and project management skills
• Partners with production and quality department to complete scale-up trials and support QA/QC with troubleshooting when necessary
• Independently manages time and projects for assigned tasks
• Develops work-plans to manage work for projects
• Provide technical guidance on unusual or complex problems
• Develops finished product formulations incorporating company technologies and meeting industrial standards, country specific and client requirements (profile, legal, cost and stability requirements)
• Works on projects for key local, strategic, and regional customers with commercial success
• Refines attributes (taste and texture) language and articulates with team and project members
• Continuously evolves / expands knowledge of ingredients and materials for Product Design
• Participates in new concept generation

Innovation & Technology

• Supports local and regional C&D and Category Growth Initiatives under direction from manager
• Successfully demonstrates new technology in appropriate projects
• Demonstrates an understanding of our Innovation Programs
• Clear understanding and execution of our Innovation Processes
• Understands ingredient functionality and flavor performance in different finished products and incorporates technology appropriately
• May assist with the development of new product and application literature, including Technical Reports

Customer Intimacy & Technical Partnership

• Provide technical services to customers as needed (plant trials, troubleshooting, and training)
• Demonstrates an understanding of customers, category markets, brand understanding, and consumer preferences
• Visits customers and presents technical information and taste and texture design concepts
• Develops strong relationships with aligned customers and related categories
• Assist customers by participating in in-house visits, answering technical questions, and conducting seminars and presentations as assigned

Leadership

• Shows positive attitude and passion
• Shares knowledge with the team and provides guidance to Trainee / Associate Designers
• Demonstrates ability to work within a team
• Inspires and builds confidence in others to achieve targets

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at kosullivan@cps4jobs.com.

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Technical Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years’ working experience in flavor and/or ingredient application with dairy or beverage (sweet applications highly preferred)
• Knowledge of flavor regulatory status and requirements
• Minimum entry level is a University / College Degree in Food Science and Technology or related disciplines (such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology)
• Strong communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills are necessary
• Travel may be required up to 30% of the time

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at kosullivan@cps4jobs.com.

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