Senior Application Scientist - Food Colors & Innovation

Sensient Technologies; St. Louis (MO); Presencial; USD 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Onsite work 5 days a week

Training and onboarding

Descripción de la vacante

Sensient Technologies is seeking a strategic thinker to identify new product opportunities, improve profitability, and manage product lifecycles. You will drive revenue growth and support the Food Colors North America strategy while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes technical customer support, plant trials, and innovation to resolve color and process challenges, with a focus on scaling solutions across our food ingredients portfolio.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Food Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably within the food ingredients or packaged food industries.
• Analytical, results-driven leader with a proactive mindset and strong desire for career growth and advancement.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong manufacturing acumen, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Ability to serve as a critical link between commercial and manufacturing teams, fostering cross-functional alignment and driving business unit growth.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical customer support to optimize color system performance in food and beverage applications.
• Partner with customer EHS, Quality, Engineering, and Operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve color and process challenges.
• Lead customer-site plant trials and production support, ensuring successful implementation and performance of finished products.
• Conduct laboratory and production trials to diagnose process issues and develop effective technical solutions.
• Support application projects through formulation development, ingredient recommendations, and optimization of customer products.
• Communicate and demonstrate new color technologies and application solutions to improve product performance and customer outcomes.
• Drive innovation by supporting new product and concept development, evaluating raw materials, and resolving technical customer complaints across Sensient's food ingredient portfolio.

Conocimientos

Analytical mindset

Results-driven

Interpersonal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Manufacturing acumen

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry/Food Science/related field

Descripción del empleo

Sensient Technologies is seeking a strategic thinker to identify new product opportunities, improve profitability, and manage product lifecycles. You will drive revenue growth and support the Food Colors North America strategy while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes technical customer support, plant trials, and innovation to resolve color and process challenges, with a focus on scaling solutions across our food ingredients portfolio.