**About Kerry**:
- Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world.
Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition.
A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
**About the role**:
**Key responsibilities**:
- Responsible for product development from initiation to launch.
Confers with process engineers, flavor experts, sales staff, suppliers, customers, food safety, regulations and packaging and marketing specialists to resolve problems.
- Responsible for coordinate and/or developing methods for analysis, including sensory panels.
Applies science for experimental design.
- Conducts basic research for the improvement of existing products and the development of new products, outlining procedures and specifications.
- Ensures appropriate documentation of experimental trials and outcomes to facilitate scale up and product transfer to manufacturing.
- Develop products aligned with the design in terms of quality and food safety.
- Complies with that good laboratory practices and lab protocols.
Documents all research notes in computer databases.
**Qualifications and skills**:
- BS in Food Technology / Science / Engineering or similar.
- +3 years work experience in seasoning / flavors; meat processing & technology knowledge is an advantage.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills through different levels in the organization.
- Work well in an ambiguous setting, self-motivated, proactive, work with mínimal direction, with cross-functional teams.
- Team player, report results in a conscience manner.
- Problem solver, solution seeker, independently identify experimental work necessary to achieve project objectives.
- Language: intermediate English.