Product Developer, Innovative Infant Nutrition

FrieslandCampina group; Wageningen; Hybrid; EUR 44,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Train card

Company pension

Annual leave 200 hours

Laptop & home office gear

Annual bonus 10%

Holiday allowance 8%

Job summary

FrieslandCampina’s Friso ROW cluster in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is seeking a Development Specialist to design and implement next-generation infant and toddler nutrition products within a global innovation program.

You will work in multidisciplinary teams across marketing, regulatory, supply chain and QA, guiding recipe design, process optimization and scale-up trials, while ensuring regulatory compliance and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Food Technology or Chemistry with at least 2 years’ hands‑on experience.
• Relevant experience with product development (>3 years), preferably in infant or medical nutrition.
• Demonstratable understanding and experience with recipe design and knowledge of product-process interactions in powdered products production.
• Analytical mindset with demonstratable understanding of regulatory requirements of IFT, in particular Greater China regulations on Infant Formula (GB), Codex, EU regular and FSMP regulations on Infant Formula.
• Know‑how of project management.
• Entrepreneurial with an open attitude, working well independently as well as in a team.
• Demonstratable understanding of data processing and statistics.
• Good communication and presentation skills in English.
• In depth‑experience with SAP PLM.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative products, processes/packages/applications and manage full implementation as R&D team member or R&D lead.
• Use your creativity and hands-on mentality to improve projects and products.
• Plan and organize pilot and production scale trials in close collaboration with pilot plant and Supply Chain and analyse, interpret, and report results to key stakeholders.
• Manage internal relationships with multidisciplinary stakeholders across the organisation, e.g. marketing, digital, regulatory, supply chain, QA, development, compliance team, and raw material specification team.

Skills

Product development

Regulatory expertise

Project management

Data analytics

English communication

Team collaboration

Recipe design

Statistical knowledge

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Master's degree in Food Technology or Chemistry

Tools

SAP PLM

Job description

FrieslandCampina’s Friso ROW cluster in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is seeking a Development Specialist to design and implement next-generation infant and toddler nutrition products within a global innovation program.

You will work in multidisciplinary teams across marketing, regulatory, supply chain and QA, guiding recipe design, process optimization and scale-up trials, while ensuring regulatory compliance and data-driven decision making.