Application Scientist
Missouri
Food Ingredients
Major Talent is partnered with a global food ingredients manufacturer with facilities across Asia, America and Europe. They are looking for an Application Scientist to join the team based in St Louis, Missouri.
As an Application Scientist, you will be responsible for preparing, blending, developing, and formulating a solution to project requests made through Sales or as part of internal project directives. This role has the responsibility to liaise between Technical, Sales, Customer Care, Quality, and Operations Teams to ensure customer project needs are met in a timely manner.
Responsibilities of an Application Scientist
- Develop technical solutions to customer-driven and marketing-driven food and beverage projects from bench-top to commercial scale levels. This requires being able to perform in laboratory, pilot plant, and plant processing environments
- Provides technical and application support to customers and builds insights based on development learnings that can be used to accelerate customer development timelines
- Develops and maintains close liaisons with technical stakeholders at key customers by delivering a superior customer service experience and value-added solutions in a timely manner.
- Continuously works with the manager on improving technical sales support and internal technical customer support processes
- Retains full responsibility for managing and resolving strategic and sensitive issues and completes assigned projects in a timely manner ensuring all technical and customer requirements are successfully met
- In collaboration with the marketing department, takes ownership of all technical support, prototype development, and product displays needed for trade shows, and other marketing activities.
- Continuously works with the manager on improving the overall technical expertise, scientific rigor and processes of the application team.
- Understands the chemistry and functionality of food ingredients in color formulations and remains current with relevant food and beverage industry trends. Trains internal and external customers as needed on all technical aspects of the businesses.
Experience required to be an Application Scientist
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related area
- Experience with color/ingredient applications, customer presentations, program/system planning, statistical reporting/analysis and cost/benefit analysis preferred.
- In-depth understanding and practical experience with production/manufacturing are preferred.
- Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to work on cross-functional projects alone and as part of a team is critical.
- Work requires excellent written, verbal and group presentation communication skills.
If you are interested, please click apply now and one of our recruitment specialists will be in touch.
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