RD&A Manager

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

The Manager of Research, Development and Application (RD&A) reports to the RD&A Director and is tasked with managing the RD&A teams to deliver projects in a timely fashion. Interaction with customers is required to deliver new product development, drive product innovation while internally assisting with cost savings initiatives and improving existing products. She/he provides technical expertise across the various functions.

Key responsibilities

• Development of commercially viable taste and functional solutions for beverage applications from brief to launch based on robust formulation, application and processes.
• Develop cost effective solutions for beverage applications that meets relevant local regulatory requirments. Demonstrate robust technical understanding of a variety of flavours and functional systems
• Demonstrate clear knowledge of different beverage applications & processing equipments and becomes recognised as a solutions partner by our customers. Interacts and troubleshoots with customers on application concerns.
• Optimally use Kerry’s taste portfolio and work closely with taste creation team to win in beverage end use market.
• Innovate with locally relavant taste profiles in beverage category.
• Work with customers and suppliers to develop innovative solutions and resolve technical problems leading to the formation of strong technical relationships.
• Work closely with Operations, Sales, Marketing and Regulatory teams to develop integrated, innovative and market relevant solutions.
• Support innovation for new product development and identify new business opportunities to meet customer and consumer needs in Turkiye market.
• Has a good understanding of operational systems to fulfill R, D&A responsibility in product scale ups and commercialisation.
• Develops food system formulations and related applications stability performance through demonstrated understanding of food formulation, chemical interactions, sensory testing and identify suitable methods for analysis.
• Identify and evaluate technologies and ingredients for new product development, improvements of existing products; leverage existing technologies to identify and promote innovation opportunities
• Keeps up to date on best practice and competitor benchmarking on product development to ensure Kerry's leadership position.
   

Qualifications and skills

• Minimum Bachelors/Masters Degree in Food Science/Technology, Chemistry or a related Applied Science
• Minimum of 10 years' experience working in applications / scientist roles in beverage application including processing experience.
• Prior experience of developing a variety of solutions within Beverage applications (non negotiable). Raw material knowledge and ingredient functionality, Sensory evaluation skills.
• Technical and functional excellence in laboratory, pilot plant and factory environment.
• Demonstrate a strong initiative and a hands on approach, ability to prioritise
• Demonstrate personal accountability, collaborative approach, Open minded, self starter and ownership of actions to completion
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively
• Innovation and Creativity
• Customer engagement
• Experience dealing with markets in Turkiye is highly desirable