Scientist – EMEA/APAC Applications

• Accurately follow & create recipes and formulas to produce finished food and beverage concepts for demonstrations to customers.
• Engage actively in employee taste panels and other sensory training activities including evaluating, tasting, and working with flavors for products including dairy, soy, nuts, and eggs.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions with chefs, food scientists, flavorists, marketing professionals and sales teams to collaboratively create new ideas for finished food and beverages that showcase Edlong’s product portfolio.
• Support Edlong’s Sales, Marketing, and R&D departments by working on assigned projects and completing their necessary tasks to solve customer challenges in a timely manner.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, presenting Edlong’s portfolio capabilities regularly to highlight a wide range of food & beverage applications.
• Assist and ensure the timely response to any inquiries and technical support requests from customers.
• Stay abreast and familiar with all flavours in the EMEA/APAC product line.
• Design, promote, and master the necessary procedures to analyze results from comparison and other sensory testing for quality control and shelf-life testing.
• Develop and implement a variety of non-routine sensory analyses and tests that respond to specific product development needs while documenting and reporting those that yield value to Edlong.
• Partake in technical training to learn about new raw materials and ingredients within the dairy & nondairy space.
• Adhere to lab safety guidelines and GMP to ensure safety when using laboratory/kitchen equipment and cleanliness within work areas to maintain a high quality of service to promote a clean and safe work environment.
• Maintain all EU-OSHA reporting requirements by working with Edlong leadership to ensure a healthy workplace culture where wellness and safety are a critical business priority.
• Assemble flavor technical documentation as requested by customers, including specification sheets, documents, etc.
• Upkeep and maintain file documentations pertaining to assigned work in a way that self- and team can access as needed.

• Procure and manage raw material supplies for the EMEA/APAC Applications department to ensure all necessary ingredients and materials are available for product development and testing.
• Prepare Edlong Ireland’s products for shipment by assembling, packing, and labeling samples in appropriate containers.
• Contribute to team efforts, collaboration, and results by following Edlong’s values, guidelines, supporting departmental objectives, and aligning with the Corporate Mission, Vision, and Strategic goals.
• Maintain and enhance professional and technical knowledge base of Edlong personnel by sponsoring or attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and establishing personal networks to stay up to date on current trends.
• Execute other duties, as assigned.

• This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.

• We are fully committed to growth - We take ownership. You are here because you are needed. What you do matters to customers, colleagues and the company. Do your job to the utmost of your ability and realize your impact. Be your best self. Owners’ vs operators, lead by example, dedicated to Edlong, be accountable, calm, strong work ethic. We earn our keep.
• We are all in this together - You do not work alone. Understand how you are connected to customers and colleagues. Quickly and freely offer and accept support. At the end of the day, we will rise or fall together. Relationship building, effective listener, warmth, comfort, loving care, likes customers (internal and external), thrives in team environment, not about ego, I got you, highly collaborative, share it all - good, bad and ugly, dependable, loyal, communicates honestly and with respect.
• We look for a better way - You can improve anything in your pursuit to create value for our customers and company. Look for waste and ways to do things faster, simpler and better. We act proactively and with a sense of urgency when a better way is found. Organizers, thoughtful, teachers-learners, holistic business mind, can do, is there anything I can do, don't wait to be asked, get it done, closers, steps up, will be done before you need it, problem solvers, hard but smart workers, act with a sense of urgency, always curious.
• We enjoy victory and grow from defeat - Freely share the joy of success. When things go wrong, reflect, learn and grow from the experience. Apply the valuable lesson to future opportunities. Never stop learning. Passionate, optimistic outlook, winning, be passionate, driven. We are resilient.

• Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in food science or a related field with an additional 1-3 years of experience in the food industry.

• Read, write, and comprehend written, electronic, and spoken instructions, memos, and correspondence, and to communicate professionally in English both verbally by phone and electronically.
• Actively listen to customer needs and respond with appropriate product proposals to meet demands.
• Effectively present and cross functionally communicate information in one-on-one, large, and small group situations to customers, clients, or other employees.
• Comply with procedures in completing written documentation and compile data into reports and summaries.

• Perform, compute mathematical operations with a calculator, and apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Conduct proper data analyses followed up with the interpretation of results
• Analytically measure small quantities (as low as 1/1000th of a gram) accurately.

• Work independently to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Develop positive customer relationships and respond to inquiries or complaints from customers in a proactive manner.
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instruction in mathematical or diagram form, deal with several abstract and concrete variables, and analyze results from comparison and other sensory tests.
• Recognize and handle confidential information in a professional manner.

• Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook).
• Product development software such as Product Vision or similar software.
• CRM tools and internal business software such as Salesforce and Plex.

• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit.
• The employee is regularly required to operate a keyboard, calculator and telephone.
• The employee must operate various pieces of lab equipment including pH meters, viscometers, gram scales, mixers, and blenders.
• The employee is regularly required to lift up to 40 lbs.
• The employee occasionally will stir products manually.
• The employee will regularly be required to use safety equipment for several processes.

• The work location includes a professional kitchen and a traditional lab setting within an environmentally controlled building where daily conditions are maintained at normal levels.
• Typical workday attendance is required with few unscheduled absences.
• Travel may be necessary, including internationally.
• Occasionally, the use of flammable and/or corrosive chemicals is warranted, which can be harmful if not utilized in a proper environment with proper safety considerations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may at times be exposed to nonhazardous fumes.

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