Sr. Product Applications & Development Technologist (Beverages)

Symrise

$96K — $135K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum bachelor's degree in food science or related field; MS degree preferred.
  • 5-8 years of experience in beverage applications or product development.
  • Experience in the entire product development cycle and/or working with a CPG company.
  • Deep expertise across multiple beverage categories.
  • Knowledgeable of HACCP/Food Safety practices.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects, managing timelines and risks.
  • Lead programs for strategic customers and facilitate co-creation sessions.
  • Develop differentiated beverage prototypes that align with Marketing insights.
  • Create robust beverage formulas balancing performance and cost.
  • Act as a trusted technical partner throughout commercialization.
  • Travel to customer sites for technical presentations and workshops.
  • Provide technical coaching to elevate team capabilities.

Benefits

  • Open and transparent company culture.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Contribution to global health and consumer well-being.
  • Strong company growth and career development support.
Full Job Description
Your role
A. Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects, managing scope, timelines, and risks to meet technical and commercial objectives. Lead complex programs for strategic and/or large customers and lead customer co-creation sessions.
B. Take on special tasks and cross-functional initiatives to support BU objectives.
C. Lead development of differentiated beverage prototypes (e.g., water, coffee, tea, dairy, carbonated, juice, alcoholic, functional) that translate Marketing insights and BU strategy into customer-ready solutions. Develop robust formulas and total beverage systems that balance performance, processing, cost-in-use, and quality. Stay current on ingredients, technologies, and processing to proactively enable new opportunities.
D. Act as a trusted technical partner to customers, providing expert guidance from concept through commercialization. Resolve complex formulation and scale-up challenges by applying advanced knowledge of flavors, technologies, processing, and ingredient functionality.
E. Travel to customer sites to support technical presentations, workshops or commercialization activities.
F. Provide technical coaching, training, and mentoring to elevate team capability, promote best practices, and strengthen overall technical excellence.

About you
  • Minimum of a bachelor's degree in food science (or related), MS degree preferred.
  • Five to Eight years of experience in beverage applications or beverage product development. Experience working through the entire product development & commercialization cycle &/or working for a CPG company is a plus.
  • Deep expertise in multiple beverage areas, plus broad knowledge of ingredients and various processing technologies.
  • Broad knowledge of beverage finished product manufacturing.
  • Knowledgeable of HACCP/Food Safety practices

Proven ability to interpret and translate Customer & Marketing direction into winning Beverage concepts

Our offer
Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.

If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply by using our online application system. Your application will be treated confidentially.

Pay Transparency Disclosure: The expected annual salary range for this position is USD $96,000.00 - USD $135,000.00. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.

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