Applications Technologist - Flavours and Food Ingredients

Applications Technologist Flavours and Food Ingredients Location: Milton Keynes Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday Friday Working Pattern: Laboratory-based with hybrid working opportunities Salary: Excellent salary and competitive benefits package The Role An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Applications Technologist to join a growing Food and Beverage team, providing technical support and application expertise across a diverse portfolio of flavours, colours and food ingredients. This role would suit a recent graduate with a degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a related discipline, or someone with a few years'' experience in flavour, colour or food ingredients in an applications, formulation or NPD role. You''ll combine hands-on laboratory work with customer interaction, technical problem-solving and commercial development. You will work across a broad range of food and beverage applications, with the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in 2 3 key sectors, such as Beverage, Dairy, Confectionery or Culinary. Key Responsibilities Develop a strong understanding of the food ingredient portfolio and provide customers with value-added, total formulation solutions. Work on developing applications across a range of food and beverage categories. Develop specialist expertise within 2 3 key market sectors beverage is a key sector Work closely with technical flavour and colour teams to develop innovative solutions. Collaborate with the Sales team to prioritise ..... full job details .....