Senior Food Technologist

Purpose of the role:

Working autonomously to maintain & grow the business via the development of profitable, delicious, nutritious & sustainable products &/or solutions for selected customers.
 
Solutions should be process stable, both internally and externally whilst still ensuring food quality and safety standards are met.

Responsibilities:
•    To work collaboratively with marketing and customers to enable on time in full delivery of authentic, marketable, profitable products. 
•    Create, formulate, and provide process parameters for new product developments aligned with customer, legislative and food safety requirements within the scope of Griffith long range plan and purpose driven strategy.
•    Applies nutritional knowledge to design and execute R&D solutions.
•    Apply and customise innovation solutions and tailor for specific market needs.
•    Sets own priorities and works independently to deliver workload on time and in full.
•    Formula Management
•    Develops close working relationships with selected/assigned customers through direct contact.
•    Coordinates, plans and runs production trials of new products, both internally and at customer locations; provides technical support in resolving on-going issues and completes full technical reports.
•    Understand and contribute towards the delivery of Business Key Performance Indicator’s.
•    Using relevant IT systems correctly to ensure that full audit trail is in place and all metrics for KPI’s can be measured.
•    Understands the customer’s requirements (ingredient, product, and legislative restrictions), their operational processes and their technical requirements. 
•    In collaboration with the wider GTM team, writes and conducts product presentations & workshops to the customer showing our products in application & in a marketable format. 
•    Participates and supports in the development of new products to align with key market data and trends.
•    Project and process management
•    Coaching and mentoring more junior members of the team.
•    Support quality & operations on product optimisation, up scaling, and root cause analysis.
•    Undertake full organoleptic analysis of food products (therefore no food allergies or food restrictions.) 
•    Proactively and visibly supports the Health and Safety standards, rules and regulations of the organisation. 

Requirements:
•    Either a degree in Food Technology or related subject OR proven relevant on the job experience.
•    A level of relevant and proven experience within the food industry, diverse understanding of FMCG industry.
•    No food allergies or restrictions on the consumption/contact of food products
•    Working environment is mainly lab based with some time within the factory either internally or externally.
•    Country and global travel is essential.
•    Be fluent (reading and writing) in English language at a technical level.