Senior Food Technologist

(Job Id W329392)
Posted on 6/28/2010
Location:

Buffalo, NY


Job Type:

Full Time


Salary: $65000.00 to $80000.00/year
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Job Description
Provide technical leadership and excellent customer relationship management while possessing excellent formulation and R&D capabilities with strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively support both internal and external customers. This individual must have a thorough understanding of the Product Development cycle and be able to lead and/or support cross-functional teams through a projects life cycle.

Provide formulation leadership for new product and reformulation initiatives.
Provide formulation training to R&D Team.
Complete product development projects.
Lead R&D relationship with multiple accounts as assigned and be responsible for ongoing project deliverables, technical support, written reports, meeting attendance, status updates, etc.
Assess ongoing business related R&D initiatives with customer and take appropriate action to implement agreed upon objectives and to communicate with internal business partners.
Solicit information regarding future product requirements with customers and share data with sales and marketing to collectively address future opportunities.
Present innovative concepts and products for internal and external accounts on an ongoing basis.
Support the R&D Manager with cost reduction, ingredient substitution/consolidation and other key initiatives as assigned.
Collaborate with and provide technical leadership and/or support to Operations, Manufacturing, Customer Service and QA in new product development and product maintenance activities (cost reductions, shelf stability studies, ingredient substitutions, etc.)
Other duties as requested.

Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Food Science, Masters preferred.

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