Food Technologist

Home Based - West London - Banbury - Reading

This exciting role is a mix of technical support and sales. Focusing on working with sales developing new business opportunities with food companies across the Southeast. Offering best in class solutions that deliver functional and nutritional ingredients that match current needs in terms of HFSS requirements, vegan and vegetarian products and other great tasing foods. A real technical food role for a passionate foodie who also has a passion for sales

Job role

Reporting to the National Account Controller you will:

• Work to ensure needs of our manufacturing clients are met
• Working with sales to develop new business opportunities
• Comfortable in a kitchen food enviroment
• Develop new products by working at our sites and client sites to ensure our ingredients deliver what the customer wants
• Be customer orientated providing continuous success in launches of innovative new products through a creative blue-sky approach to product development and in recipe creation.
• Work closely with Account Managers to provide technical support

Ideal Candidate will have

• A culinary-chef or a food science background
• Some customer facing experience
• Ability to create new and innovative products in line with agreed business plans & market developments, showing a real flair for food & culinary trends
• Effectively manage the development process from concept origination to product handover meeting all deadlines both internally and externally.

The company

A real modern day success story, Providing natural plant based food ingredients that deliver on health and nutrition. Our products and growth plans are second to none. For the right individual we can deliver a career that will both stretch and stimulate

Benefits:

• £50,000 Salary
• Annual bonus 20%
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension
• Health care

Interested? If you wish to apply for this role, please click on the apply button with a copy of your up-to-date CV. Due to the high number of candidates applying who have visa requirements, we would like to provide advance notice that we are currently unable to progress with any candidate who does not have a full right to work in the UK without dependant or sponsorship requirements.

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