Senior Technical Expert Italian Savoury Bakery

Job title:

Senior Technical Expert Italian Savoury Bakery

Company

Vandemoortele

Job description

Share our taste for life!
Together with you, we want to empower you to achieve this mission with us. We value you as a person and actively support you on your professional journey, while caring about your future. Join our big little family and let’s make products for you and the world to love.Your role
As Technical R&D Expert Italian Savoury Bakery, you act as a the “GO TO” expert within the domain of Italian Savoury Bakery and you provide support to R&D-colleagues and different departments such as marketing, procurement, production, quality etc.
You create added value by providing input as a key success factor of the Bakery Products strategy. You reinforce the future of proactive innovations in Italian Savoury (Pizza, Foccaccia,…) for the Bakery Products business lineYour key responsibilities?As the Product and technology specialist in Italian Savoury Bakery, you:

• know the plant capabilities and product range of all the product applications in Italian Savoury
• aid the technical screening of new requests in the assessment process on complexity and risk
• organize technical seminars (internal /external);
• ensure information sharing throughout the Vandemoortele community;
• actively follow market trends, competitors and new developments in the market.
• Give trainings internal and external
• You are a spider in the web for different departments

Together with marketing, you build the “pro-active” innovation pipeline on Italian Savoury, that matches the strategic needs of Vandemoortele and customers, you:

• act as the key R&D contact for new innovations towards the management and other stakeholders.
• lead mid-term innovation projects in close collaboration with our research teams, sensory experts, central and local development center.
• lead and coordinate internal projects (eg on complex raw materials, ingredients, process improvement, nutritional and sustainability projects…) for which you monitor performance, recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions.

You provide support to production sites for Italian Savoury to lower the cost or improve the quality of existing products or to test and implement innovations.
You will be actively involved in new CAPEX investments, building on your extensive expertise, working together with equipment suppliersBuilding & sharing expertise and reportingYou build up specific technological and market knowledge via literature, patents, seminars, etc…
You share your technological and market knowledge with the broader team to enhance new insides.
You visualize the created added value of the job by developing clear reports
You explore technologies and new solutions for the categoryTeamwork!Our R&D Team’s purpose: You will be part of passionate high performing R&D team, that generates innovative bakery solutions through technological knowledge to create success of our partners and to fulfil consumer needs.You report to the R&D Director Bakery ProductsWhat’s in for you?

• You will join our big little family: Our associates are the beating heart of our company – they bring the flavour to our organisation. We cherish each member, prioritising their well-being and supporting their professional journey.
• We value you as a person: At Vandemoortele we value each one of our associates and recognise their unique contributions to team successes.
• We care about your future and we support your professional journey: We believe in the power of our associates and the value of their actions and support their career aspirations by offering internal mobility and promotional opportunities. We embrace individual ambitions and entrust our associates to take ownership.
• We make products for you to love: We are a team of passionate food enthusiasts. In our mission to shape a tasty future we strive to create a wide range of food solutions that connects people, cultures and traditions.

Are you the one we’re looking for?

• You hold a Master’s degree or PHD in food chemistry or food technology or bio-engineering or other related fields and you have at least 5 years of relevant work experience within the food industry. Good Experiences with (frozen) bakery products and Italian Savoury (Pizza, focaccia,.. technology) are a must.
• You are very customer focused, you have good knowledge of the customer’s market, players and needs.
• You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal, in English. Italian is a very strong plus.
• You are strong in analytical thinking and you are open-minded in your thinking and acting.
• You have a mature business personality, you are able to challenge cross functional colleagues and managers.
• You’re able to work in an autonomous way
• You are an ultimate team player
• You are proactive, energetic and dare to challenge the status quo. At the same time, you are pragmatic, problem-solving and looking for initiative.
• As a food lover, you are passionate by food and food technology.
• You have an extensive external network to be connected on innovations
• You are willing to travel 30 % of your time.
• For this exciting role you will be working at our Italian Savoury location in Genova, Italy

Join us in making sweet memories!
We look forward to welcoming you to our delicious journey!
Submit your updated CV and compelling cover letter (optional) highlighting your relevant experience and motivation.

Expected salary

Location

Izegem, West-Vlaanderen

Job date

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:12:19 GMT

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