Pharmaceutical Industry jobs in United Kingdom

Requisition ID: 62203
Position Type: FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement: #LI-Onsite

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. 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.

The Stocks & Broths Creator will independently lead projects in line with business strategy and in response to customer briefs. The role requires developing culinary formulations and related stability performance through demonstrated understanding of food formulation, and influence of materials and processing conditions in delivering taste for meat-based soup, stocks, sauces, and gravies. It requires to utilize Kerry technology to deliver unique solutions and the ability to work with cross functional teams to optimize the strengths of Kerry and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for customers. The Stocks & Broths Creator requires to demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, and adaptability to change together with good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Lead developer supporting Stocks & Broths opportunity pipeline.
• Build strong customer relationships, delivering customer centric solutions and manage customer opportunities to drive Business growth.
• Deliver innovation by having good understanding of market trends, regulations & restriction, ingredients, customer requirements and processes. Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies and innovative solutions
• Develop collection in partnership with Portfolio Manager.
• Conducting research and sensory testing for the improvement of existing products and the development of new, outlining procedures and specifications.
• Utilize Kerry technologies in stocks & broths creation to meet Taste needs and expectations.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation of experimental trials and outcomes to facilitate scale up and product transfer to manufacturing.
• Supporting manufacturing site to optimise product production and process improvement.
• Partner wider team & functions: process engineers, flavour experts, application teams, account managers, suppliers, finance, and regulatory specialists to support project activity and deliver optimum results.
• Managing and maintaining category collections which includes sourcing of products, stock maintenance, sample requests, tracking and communication with account managers.
• Mentor, Train and Develop internal talent aligning career development goals with organizational objectives.

• Further Education in a culinary, food, food science, or chef environment
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a technical product development role, with a proven track record of creating culinary dishes or products utilising natural ingredients or other culinary taste technologies and processes.
• Restaurant chef experience preferred but not essential.
• Ability to communicate effectively, present technical work to internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Aligned to Kerry shared values: courage, ownership, inclusiveness, open-mindedness, and enterprising spirit.
• Action oriented, have a culture of innovation, must be resilient and have good decision-making qualities.
• A high level of attention to detail and the highest quality standards.
• Good kitchen & laboratory practices.
• Good computer skills
• Flexible Travel
• A love of preparing and evaluating food.
• An inquisitive and enquiring mind.

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

Recruiter: #LI-RG2
Posting Type: LI