Senior Applications Technologist

AXZEL Search Limited.; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

AXZEL Search Limited is recruiting a Senior Applications Technologist for North and West Africa. The role provides technical expertise and application support to dairy, savoury and beverage customers, working with distributors and internal teams.

You will develop recipes, support scale-up, deliver training, and build relationships across the region, traveling as required.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in food applications, technical service or product development.
• Knowledge of dairy, savoury and/or beverage applications.
• Experience supporting customers or distributors within the food ingredients industry.
• Strong understanding of recipe development and product scale-up.
• Confident delivering technical training and presentations.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to identify customer and market opportunities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Willingness to travel across North and West Africa as required.

Aufgaben

• Provide technical support to direct customers and distributors.
• Deliver product demonstrations, technical training and customer presentations.
• Develop product recipes across dairy, savoury and beverage applications.
• Support customers with product trials, process development and scale-up activities.
• Analyse customer needs and translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Monitor market trends and identify opportunities for application development.
• Work closely with Business Development, Sales and Marketing teams.
• Support customer projects from initial concept through to implementation.
• Build strong technical relationships with customers and distribution partners across the region.

Kenntnisse

Food applications experience

Dairy/beverage applications

Technical training delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Travel willingness

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Applications Technologist – Dairy, Savoury & Beverage

I am a specialist headhunter collaborating with an established food ingredients business to appoint a Senior Applications Technologist covering North and West Africa.

This role will provide technical expertise and application support to direct customers and distributors across the dairy, savoury and beverage sectors. The successful candidate will help customers develop effective product solutions, deliver technical training and support the successful scale-up of new applications.

Location: North and West Africa

Workplace type: Customer-facing / field-based

HQs: Hamburg, Germany

As a Senior Applications Technologist, you will work closely with customers, distributors and internal commercial teams to understand technical requirements, identify market opportunities and provide practical ingredient solutions. The role will involve recipe development, scale-up support and close collaboration with Business Development, Sales and Marketing.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical support and expertise to direct customers and distributors.
• Deliver product demonstrations, technical training and customer presentations.
• Develop product recipe solutions across dairy, savoury and beverage applications.
• Support customers with product trials, process development and scale-up activities.
• Analyse customer needs and translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Monitor market trends and identify opportunities for application development.
• Work closely with Business Development, Sales and Marketing teams.
• Support customer projects from initial concept through to implementation.
• Build strong technical relationships with customers and distribution partners across the region.

Candidate profile

• Experience in food applications, technical service or product development.
• Knowledge of dairy, savoury and/or beverage applications.
• Experience supporting customers or distributors within the food ingredients industry.
• Strong understanding of recipe development and product scale-up.
• Confident delivering technical training and presentations.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to identify customer and market opportunities.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel across North and West Africa as required.

This role offers the opportunity to combine technical expertise, customer engagement and commercial collaboration while supporting the development of innovative food and beverage solutions across the region.