SP | São Paulo
Autônomo / PJ
Biólogo
Engenheiro Agrônomo
Engenheiro de Alimentos
Médico Veterinário
Nutricionista
Tecnólogo em Alimentos
Vacancy description
- Influence and execute the innovation roadmap
- Responsible for landing of new innovations or existing ingredient(s) in the market by providing direct support for customer and working with regional Application technologist to produce regionalized applications.
- Responsible for communication of regional insights and needs to broader Ingredients team
- Contribution to lead generation and opportunity pipeline
- Challenge incoming leads and generate new leads with customers and prospects, have them converted into opportunities and eventually valuable innovations
- Apply value based selling tactics to validate needs and translate this to RFC solutions
- Customer relation management
- Provides direct support for regional customers
- Works closely and within the Technical, Regulatory and Commercial Frameworks with regional Application Technologis to provide optimal support for the customer request
- Stakeholder Management
- Collaboration with regional Commercial teams, global FCI TSS and Application Group and broader R&D
- Makes sure the regions’ needs are included in the Application Roadmap
- Knowledge Management
- Responsible for collection of regional knowledge within area of own responsibility and its transfer to the global team.
- Hybrid working (remote/home).
Requirements
- Sound technical background (MSc Food Technology or alike), and preferably technical knowhow on Adult and/or Early Life Nutrition and/or its ingredients (dairy proteins, hydrolysates, GOS, etc.).
- Enjoy fast-paced commercial environment, which requires proactive stakeholder management and relation building abilities (marketing, sales, supply chain, QA, development and customers).
- Actively collect and interpret technical market information (e.g. trends, needs, competitors, legislation, new products) and translate them into product & application ideas.
- Prepare and contribute customer visits, by utilizing your expertise to provide input, advice on product specifications and value propositions.
- MSc in relevant discipline, preferable in Food Technology or related field with at least 3 years of working experience.
- Alternatively, be able to document ample experience in food technology and product development.
- Pre-requisites
- Graduation: Food Engineering, Nutrition, Agronomy or similar fields.
- Experience: minimum 10 years.
- Native/Fluent in English and Portuguese; Spanish: intermediate.
- Travel availability: 30% of the time.
