Food Scientist

**About the Job**:
IFF Pharma Solutions is looking to hire a

**Food Scientist (m/w/d)**

**Your tasks will include**:

- People Leadership of a small, dedicated team of technologists
- Work across all regions in collaboration with the sales / field technical support team to support an existing customer portfolio and territory.
- Interacts with customers to help solve technical challenges and follows up with internal stakeholders to drive for value-adding solutions. Engages with customers and business partners to understand unmet market needs, conceptualizes these, and translates them into research plans or project proposals.
- Develop in-depth understanding of customer needs, develop new growth opportunities and maintain an opportunity pipeline.
- Develop in-depth understanding of relationships between food ingredient structure, food formulation and performance.
- Support regional marketing activities: product launches, campaigns, trade shows.

**About You**:
**Qualifications/ Critical Competencies**:

- PhD in chemistry or food science/engineering or a master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in food R&D or technical service.
- Formulation expertise across Bakery, Dairy, Beverage, Meat, Vegetarian, and Culinary Applications.
- Drive to results, self-driven and work independently.
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written.
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively work internally with regional and global teams. Learning agility to grow and develop in a dynamic environment. Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel.

You can expect a responsible role in a versatile and technologically demanding environment with all the opportunities in an internationally active company. The position is located within the Pharma Innovation Center in Bomlitz (Germany). Due to the intensive local interaction e. g. with the laboratories, at least basic German language skills are required. The main language in business interactions is English. The position is fulltime and regular (Vollzeit und unbefristet).

IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.