GFIC is recruiting for a Regional leading FMCG company, Producing Powders, Culinary Products and Beverages, private owned with a long history, with a strong export, beeing present in almost 100 countries the

Sensory and New Product Developement Specialist

Location: South Europe/Mediterran See

• The Sensory and NPD Specialist leads the sensory panel as well as the consumer validation of products and product prototypes to ensure products meet consumer expectation. 

• The Sensory and NPD Specialist identifies consumer trends to initiate product development and product improvement opportunities and carries out trials in the development lab

Key Accountabilities

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• Identify market trends for the initiation or development of new/enhanced company products

• Set out a detailed brief for new product development and coordinate activities with other team members

• Effective exploration of new formulations in the development lab

• Research and explore into new process/product technologies

• Evaluate and assess available raw material suppliers for the required project

• Leading of Consumer Understanding activities on R&D projects by defining clear and time bounded plans, execution, analyses, reporting and present results

• Constantly keeping  our products under review by highlighting and initiating improvement projects to ensure product best quality and cost

• Contribute to new development ideas/briefs by shaping and aligning to consumers

• Identify opportunities

• Excellent ability to deduct conclusions from sensorial data and consumer reports

• Ability to create a climate of innovation – has passion for new knowledge, experiences and challenges

Sensorial Leadership

• Lead sensory analysis and collect and compile consumer knowledge & consumer trend for the defined product categories

• Guide product development based on sensory & functional characteristics

• Maintain efficiently the flavor library to provide efficient product development support

• Serve as the our  Sensory Panel Leader by developing, training and maintaining the panel to support product development and product quality initiatives

• Keep abreast of latest sensory techniques

• Apply statistical methods for data handling

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Ideal Candidate Profile

• Master Degree in food science or sensory science

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a NPD environment of the food industry with exposure to a variety of sensory and consumer techniques in product concept development and testing (qualitative and quantitative)

• Technical skills

• Expert food science knowledge

• Knowledge in sensory evaluation and in a variety of consumer research techniques

• Good knowledge of statistics

Your application

Please send your CV as a pdf file to alfred.geiger@geiger-foodingredients.com

• including CV

• cover letter

• salary expectation 

• start date by mail 

• Please add to Subject/Re line  in your mail:  NPD CV Your Name

• we will only responde to shortlisted candidates

• if you need more informations do not hesitate to call me on +49 171-6448094 or send me a mail

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