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Global Innovation Plant-based Technical Director
Work Location: Geneva, Switzerland / Princeton, USA
As innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, dsm-firmenich reinvents, manufactures, and combines vital nutrients, flavors, and fragrances for the world’s growing population to thrive. With our comprehensive range of solutions, with natural and renewable ingredients and renowned science and technology capabilities, we work to create what is essential for life, desirable for consumers, and more sustainable for the planet. dsm-firmenich is a Swiss-Dutch company, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam, with operations in almost 60 countries and revenues of more than €12 billion. With a diverse, worldwide team of nearly 30,000 employees, we bring progress to life™ every day, everywhere, for billions of people.
At dsm-firmenich, being a force for good is not optional. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is a shared responsibility woven into our daily work to not only benefit our People, Customers & Communities but also drive business value. Equal access to opportunities is a given, belonging is a shared feeling, authenticity is celebrated.
Key Responsibilities:• Lead a team of lab technicians and technologists and is the global go-to plant-based dairy analogs expert• Drive and deliver creative solutions to the SmartProteins® Dairy & Plant-Based program for mid to long-term innovation projects• Create a forward look of the required best-in-class expertise and stay alert of current and new industry technical trends (equipment & processes, raw materials, supplier webinars, academia trainings)• In collaboration with S&R or external partners, identifies, test, validate breakthrough tonality, masking & taste modulating ingredients• Participate to other Global Sweet Goods creation projects in particular those benefiting from presence in the EU/US• Provide ad-hoc expertise support to regions for high value sophisticated/must-in briefs • Maintains and develops communication network with the Regions and affiliates on taste related activities and topics
You bring:• +10 years of relevant working experience as technical director with specialization in the plant-based dairy analogs & dairy related domains• MSc / PhD in Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Food Technology, Food Science or other relevant domains• Formulation and food processing expertise coupled with in depth understanding of taste interactions, flavor technology and regulatory environment beyond plant-based & dairy• Creativity paired with a passion for flavor and digital technologies• Didactic, synthetic & eloquent person with strong interpersonal skills• Fluent in English (C1), French is plus
We bring:• A highly creative, diverse, scientific and imaginative environment within an international innovation community that tackles the future of food and diet transformation with direct business impact.• Being part of an incredibly competitive and inspiring interdisciplinary team of industry-leading developers working closely with a state-of-the-art equipped researchers and research facility• A diversity of exciting projects related to foods• The opportunity to work for a highly socially company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose• Career development opportunities with great opportunities to learn and grow• To be part of a company shaping a strong legacy through breakthrough industrial innovations and technology
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