RD&A Senior Scientist, Savoury

4 weeks ago


Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Kerry Group Plc Full time

About the Role:

  • We are looking for a talented and motivated RD&A Scientist with experience in Sauce technologies Savoury or Sweet sauces experience. This is a hands-on, end-to-end Ideation to Commercialization role, working with a Global company with a significant Application and Manufacturing footprint across Greater Africa.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide support to the R&D, Regulatory, Marketing, Commercial, Operations and Quality teams
  • Evaluate the totality of the existing scientific evidence and translate into product positioning and messaging, within the context of existing regulations
  • Provide ongoing technical support to position Kerry's capabilities in sauces savoury and sweet development for food service
  • Holistic product development of sauces with formulation excellence and processing know how
  • Ingredient competencies especially fat emulsion, protein stabilization, dairy ingredients, texturant systems, buffering systems and flavourings
  • Support rapid innovation for new product development and new business opportunities to meet ever changing food service customer and consumer needs
  • Identify opportunities for new product development and positioning across food service and retail channels
  • Identify and evaluate technologies and ingredients for new product development; leverage existing technologies to identify and promote innovation opportunities
  • Provide application support to relevant business and RD&A teams on food service development projects
  • Assist in formulating wet sauces platform across multiple market End Uses and its implementation; Articulate and translate program to top-line and bottom-line impact to business growth and be able to engage with business leaders on business impact
  • Interface with internal and external scientific experts, to advance in product innovation and support business growth
  • Lead and participate in proactive and reactive projects
  • Present technically complex scientific data to internal and external customers to progress business objectives
  • Collaborate on new product development and introductions with interdepartmental teams on Project Management initiatives
  • Attend trade shows and scientific conferences
  • Present to customers, sales and other stakeholders

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

  • Bachelors / Masters degree in Food Science, Food Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Chemistry or other related fields with a minimum 5 years relevant experience
  • Food and Beverage research experience – protocol development, study design, recruitment, monitoring, laboratory analysis, project management, etc
  • Sauce product development with ingredient competencies, especially fat emulsion, protein stabilization, dairy ingredients, texturant systems, buffering systems and flavourings sweet or culinary sauce experience will be beneficial
  • Application expertise in food service areas is of great benefit, but not essential
  • Sensory evaluation skills to support product development
  • Product upscale with processing knowledge in terms of product and its application
  • Ability to manage multiple projects
  • Fluency in English is essential
  • Works well with cross-functional teams –has the ability to link between applications groups / Marketing / Production in order to achieve the end goal
  • Strong team player with a clear focus on stakeholder engagement and solution delivery
  • Takes personal accountability and ownership of actions to completion
  • Stays abreast of current literature, research, industry developments and market trends
  • Displays the creativity to independently identify experimental work necessary to achieve project objectives and contribute workable ideas


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