Primary Responsibilities:

Branded Ingredient Development/Commercialization.

Lead R&D substantiation and evaluation of ingredients through the New Ingredient/Vendor

Qualification Standard Operating Procedure.

Have a keen understanding of the businesses and commercialization of branded ingredients i.e., supplements, food, beverage, and pet industries.

Analyze market trends (consumer behavior, market segmentation, competitor positioning, etc.) and emerging demands to propose potential new product concepts.

Present new product design concepts, benefits and advantages, potential applications.

Work with formulations to develop potential applications for food, beverage, and nutrition markets.

Lead end-to-end projects to develop new or improved products in a cross-functional environment with agility.

Identify and evaluate potential new ingredients and manage end to end to launch as part of our

product offering.

Manage material, document, market data, pricing, etc. review for research and new product development.

Conduct experiments to evaluate new ingredients/formulations.

Collaborate to develop commercialization strategy, go-to-market plan, and support sales activities for new products.

Collaborate with Marketing on content and data required for sell sheets, presentations, publications, etc. for various tradeshows, social media postings, events, meetings, etc.

Sales Team Support:

Support our sales team in learning about branded ingredients and the product portfolio, what differentiates our product offerings and an overview of the competitive landscape.

Assist our sales team with customer-facing presentations.

Understand customer needs and use these insights to support solution design, pipeline development and technical strategies.

Promote new product concepts and technologies to existing and potential customers.

Partner with sales teams to build a strong R&D project pipeline by identifying and shaping new opportunities.

Develop close working relationships with new customers or underdeveloped existing customers.

Lead customer specific R&D projects and provide technical expertise and support to develop high-quality, cost-effective solutions. Independently track project progression.

General R&D Lab Management:

Establish laboratory SOPs, testing methodologies, ingredient specifications and prototyping procedures to ensure a safe and sanitized testing and R&D environment.

Assist achieving industry recognized certifications

Knowledge or organizational effectiveness and team collaboration to work as an effective team member

Communicate with 3rd party or internal Quality Control labs while analyzing and organizing test results

Ideal Candidate:

Education: Bachelors or Master’s degree in food science, nutritional science, chemistry, material science, food engineering and/or development related area(s) of study.

Food industry experience.

Food formulation experience and understanding of food systems, ingredient interactions andfunctionality required. Sound knowledge of food science, food chemistry, food microbiology, and food processing and engineering.

Strong nutrition, technical, scientific, and regulation background with passion in food, beverage, nutrition industry.

Knowledge and understanding of protein characterization methodologies and continued updating of new methods.

Experienced in presenting branded ingredients to various technical knowledge levels and end users

Understands customer/market trends, needs, commercialization processes and success measures, to better develop and position solutions that have real impact.

Thinks creatively, analytically, and holistically, employing innate curiosity to explore problems and generate impactful solutions internally and externally.

Clearly and logically plans projects, follows processes and procedures, supports technical trials, analyzes large amounts of data to define the critical issues and make recommendations.

Takes accountability for delivering world class solutions. Pro-actively takes ownership and shows initiative in leading and contributing to high-quality and timely work.

Have strong ability to work in a team environment, open to collaboration, other perspectives and easy to work with.

Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Have a sense of urgency, creativity, innovation, and growth mindset.