Scientist, Global Applications - Dairy in Lübeck bei Tate & Lyle

Scientist, Global Applications – Dairy

Lubeck, Germany

Full Time

Join us a Scientist with Dairy experience to push the boundaries of food science.

Unlock your curiosity at Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle is on a journey of change, inspired by our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. Today, we are a global leader in sweetening, texture and fortification products that remove calories and add fibre. Customers use our innovations to create healthier, tastier food and drink for billions of consumers. Across the world, we are unlocking the curiosity and courage in our people – to foster a truly experimental culture and create a tech-enabled, more agile, risk-ready operation. Join us to play your part in growing our business and its positive impact on communities, society and the planet.

Explore the possibilities in Europe

Europe is home to our global HQ and to offices and facilities in 50 countries. Our teams are driving Tate & Lyle’s growth throughout the continent – and supporting colleagues worldwide in transforming our business and culture. Europe is the planet’s biggest market for new trends in drink and food, with an unmatched appetite for innovation. We are releasing the full potential in our people - to find proactive solutions that give our customers the competitive edge.

Your role in our future

The Scientist in Global Applications–Dairy has a key role to grow applications knowledge in strategic categories and areas. You will be able to demonstrate technical leadership, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and project management skills. This position will have great impact on building global applications knowledge to deliver projects with high potential commercial values. Key Responsibilities:

• Develop category application knowledge (dairy) to support the growth of strategic areas.
  • Conceptualize, design application plan, and execute application projects in a scientific manner.
  • Deep dive on applying ingredients knowledge in food matrix and augment the value proposition
  • Create and modify food processing methods and product characterization methods (including physical and sensory test) within application category as necessary.
  • Interpret data independently to provide technical solutions on highly complex food application problems
• Demonstrate scientific and technical leadership in food application.
  • Assess and identify food application gaps by reviewing insights and trends from market metadata analysis as well as scientific literatures on new technology trend, process methodology, and regulations.
  • Provide peer review of technical documents
• Translate technical application findings into meaningful business recommendations, communicate and share results, driving decision making and technology adoption to internal peers and stakeholders.
• Navigate a matrix working environment to builds relationships, provide connections within the regional and global, technical, and commercial teams.

What we’re looking for

We look for people who will thrive in a changing business and a culture that is evolving day by day – we value curiosity, courage and a willingness to challenge others constructively. Hungry for impact, you will be excited by delivering original and imaginative content for our fast-growing business. You also need:

• Expertise in food formulation, processing, and product characterization in application of different food ingredients specifically in different dairy subcategories (yogurt, frozen dairy, cheese, cream, etc).
• Experience with ingredients structural functional properties is highly desirable.
• Experience with pilot scale dairy processing equipment (i.e. UHT) is highly desirable.
• Demonstrates ability to deliver results where high levels of ambiguity initially existed. Good problem-solving skills and quick decision-making capability.
• Evidence of critical thinking skills and ability to challenge the status quo. Relentless focus on delivering high-quality results for the customer and business.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experienced with design of experiments (DoE) and capable of utilizing suitable DoE tools to deliver projects.
• Experience with flavor application and interactions with ingredients in relevant food matrix is a plus.
• Basic project management skill is a plus.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken, and one other European language is essential (for Lubeck)
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a Master’s degree, in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering or related area of study.
• Minimum 3 years (Bachelor’s degree) or 0 year (Master’s degree) of experienc