Sr. Application Scientist

PGP International Inc • Westchester, IL

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About The Position

Sr. Application Scientist contributes to the company's strategic goals and overall success by identifying new application opportunities, driving innovation, and supporting the development of products that align with market trends and customer needs. This role requires experience in developing innovative food product applications, particularly in areas such as wellness and nutrition bars, high-value confectionery, dairy toppers, and rehydrated foods. This role requires strong collaboration and communication skills, the ability to conduct application studies, and proficiency in summarizing findings and preparing reports to create value of our products

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, nutrition, culinary arts, or a related field.
• 5 to 10 years of relevant application development experience in the food industry.
• Strong understanding of wellness and nutrition-focused bar and bites products, as well as strong knowledge on confectionary applications, familiarity with dairy toppers, and rehydrated and toddler snacks.
• Proven ability in culinary and application projects with a third-party and/or consumer product company.
• Experimentation, data analysis and technical report writing.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sensory evaluation methods is a plus.

Responsibilities

• HSE: Always promote a safe work environment through adherence to all PGP’s and Ohly’s Health & Safety and Environmental policies and procedures as well as to all relevant OSHA regulations in order to achieve ZERO workplace incidents and injuries.
• Ingredient Application and R&D: Lead formulation and development of relevant ingredient applications for PGP based on market needs such as nutrition and wellness bar products, high-value confectionery, dairy toppers, rehydrated foods, healthy snacks. Design and execute bench and pilot scale trials and sensory and performance testing.
• Product Development: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Innovation, Sales & Marketing, Corporate Quality & Food Safety, and Operations, to ensure successful product development and launch as supported by application learnings. commercial liaison work between Sales/Innovation.
• Market Focus and Innovation: Monitor industry trends and ingredient innovations to propose new application opportunities. Support decisions for product launches through pilot validation and technical reviews.
• Prototypes: Produce prototypes from product concepts for technical sales projects, key trade shows and innovation days. Support protype development and application validation work within our Where to play categories.
• Technical Knowledge: Support Sales team with technical knowledge of PGPs portfolio and become an expert in assigned application focus areas and with key customers. Identify and create solutions for internal and external customers. Educate Sales team members in application development expertise and technical knowledge.
• Ohly Policies & Standards: Support local Ohly team with upkeep and improvement of the CIC lab including inventory, cleaning, and overall upkeep needed to have a top-level application kitchen.
• Training & Development: Stay updated on industry trends, nutritional guidelines, and regulatory standards impacting product development. Participate in all the training related to the role organized by PGP and Ohly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees