Industry Technology Specialist

The Role:

My client who are a multi-million speciality ingredients producer are currently looking to recruit an Industry Technology Specialist/Manager who will play a key role within the European Technical Service team collaborating closely with colleagues in sales and marketing to provide world class technical support and innovative solutions to the companies customers.

Key Responsibilities

You will play a key role in understanding customer needs and be responsible for initiating and leading technical activities to regional and global key accounts. In close cooperation with R&D, sales and marketing, you will ensure professional technical support and provide innovative solutions for customers. You will create solid business cases together with customers and evaluate, plan and carry out projects from laboratory to industrial scale within the company’s lab and for clients and partners. You will support the test marketing, the launching of new products and you are capable of writing technical articles and giving speeches at industry conferences. Frequent traveling and customer meetings in Europe will be part of your daily work/responsibility.

Required Skills and Experiences

• Hold a scientific background with a university degree (MSc or PhD) in Food Science/Technology.
• Have a strong understanding of the baking industry and working experience with new product development in the FMCG area.
• Apply principles of baking ingredients, enzymology, project management and economics to develop new, innovative and improved methods for customers.
• Have a broader understanding of baking processing in general.
• Have a strong customer and team orientation, a commercial mind-set combined with great English communication skills are required, possibly supplemented with additional language qualifications (e.g. Danish, French, Spanish and/or German).