Technologist food in Somerset, Weston-super-Mare

Job Description About Kerry Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment. About the role \n We are recruiting for a Senior RDA Technologist to be based in Portbury, Bristol. \n The position will be responsible for the development of Meat Coatings systems and meat seasonings in conjunction with the Thailand RD&A team. \n The RD&A team collaborates with a global network of chefs, marketing and sensory experts to deliver products to market within launch timescales. Key responsibilities \n \n Lead development on projects initiated by European customers that will be produced in Thailand. \n Develop innovative solutions to help grow customer and Kerry's market within cost parameters, manufacturing capability whilst ensuring all new products are legal within country of use. \n Create value added products with a point of difference from our competitors continuing to lead in the market through manufacture process and ingredient knowledge. \n Build relationships with key personnel within allocated accounts via visits, presentations and attending trials in customer factory when required. \Oversees projects from customer or internal brief through to hand over to Thai team for production at factory stage. \n Develops food system formulations and related applications stability performance through demonstrated understanding of food formulation and chemical interactions. \n \n Provide our customers with the best available products through developing an understanding the market, manufacturing capabilities, ingredient restrictions etc. \n Maintain awareness of developments across Kerry, with a focus on Thailand, building these into new developments providing USP's for customers. n Undertake training by visiting Thailand and working closely with the Thai RD&A and regulatory teams. \n Remain fully flexible to meet business requirements. Willing to travel within EMEA for customer visits and to Thailand for training. \n Qualifications and skills \n \n BSc in food science or equivalent \n Extensive experience in Snack industry \n Experience in top note development for savoury applications \n Customer facing experience \n \n Please note We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed. In the event that speculative CVs or candidate profiles are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current or future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency. \