Application Scientist, Arla Foods Ingredients

Viby J

Our innovators move fast and draw strength from their natural curiosity as well as their specialist knowledge. You love to put your intellectual skills to the test every day and to explore the frontier of your field, inventing new standards!

Do you want to set new standards within protein-based Ready-to-eat applications such as protein bars and bakery within sport, clinical and functional food and contribute to developing specialised products? Then join the Application team, Beverage, Bars and Bakery within Arla Food Ingredients (AFI) in Aarhus. We are an independent company within the Arla Foods Group and a global leader in natural whey Ingredients for many different Industries including beverage, dairy, bakery, infant and sport nutrition.

One of the cornerstones in our business is our dedicated experts developing solutions with our functional and nutritional whey proteins, milk minerals, lactose and permeate. You are offered a unique position in our dynamic working environment where you will apply your competencies within a broad range of responsibility areas.

Lene Hald Pedersen

How you will make an impact

Your overall objective will be to develop new applications and build protein knowledge within the bars and bakery area focusing on nutrition and physio-chemical properties.

Your main tasks will be:

  • Responsibility for application support in development of new ingredients
  • Management of knowledge application projects
  • Participation in development of new concepts illustrating the capabilities of our ingredients
  • Technical support to customers and our sales colleagues
  • Participation in customer visits and – seminars
  • In close collaboration with our application technicians formulate new recipes, set up pilot scale and laboratory trials, followed by documentation and presentation of findings

Your work involves activities in cross-functional teams within AFI. This include scientific as well as commercial departments.

Ideally you can look forward to use your creativity and innovative mindset to impact our business while developing your skills and future career opportunities.

The position will require some travel activities.

What will make you successful

We imagine that the right candidate holds a PhD or a Master’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry or similar, and if you have knowledge within protein chemistry, use of ingredients into protein bars it will be a plus. You have experience within product development, project management and food processing. Experience with protein bars technology and formulations will be also an advantage. More importantly, you take a strong interest in developing your skills within these areas. Seeing your ideas and innovations be brought into practice when new ingredients are developed to the market is a powerful motivation for you.

As a person you are open-minded and positive, innovative and a skillful communicator, who is able to network with many important stakeholders. Moreover, you know that proper and systematic documentation is an important part of successful project management, and you value teamwork as a tool to achieve results successfully. You are proficient in written and spoken English.

Application and contact

If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please send us your application as soon as possible, since we are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis. For additional information, please call Senior Category Manager, Lene Hald Pedersen on +45 9131 9588.

Together we discover and deliver powerful nutrition for a stronger tomorrow

Arla Foods Ingredients is a global leader in improving premium nutrition. Together with our customers, research partners, suppliers, NGOs and others, we discover and deliver ingredients and products that can advance lifelong nutrition for the benefit of consumers around the world.

While our factories may be packed with shiny steel vats, our labs look like something from the space program and our offices are awash in spreadsheets, we are a fundamentally human company with a genuine commitment to sustainability. By joining us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to shape your own development in a company that has seen double-digit growth every year for a quarter of a century.

Read more about what it means to work with Arla Foods Ingredients: https://www.arlafoodsingredients.com/about/career/#career

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not offered

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

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