Category Manager

Sensient is growing rapidly!! This is a great time to join Sensient as an Application Scientist within our Food Color Business unit.  This exciting and dynamic customer-facing role will be responsible for the development of a variety of color formulations across an expansive portfolio of food and beverage applications. This position requires owning the product lifecycle from benchtop to production, collaborating with other teams to ensure efficiencies, and utilizing internal resources to ensure customer needs are met.

What You’ll Do:

• Support commercial team by communicating directly with customers to identify success for color projects. This includes identifying goals, timing, and parameters per specific customer and customer pipeline. Applications include (but are not limited to) confections, pet food, baked items, processed food, beverage, and dairy.
• Build project outlines, interpret results, and write detail-oriented reports or presentations to present to both internal and external technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Work to improve and troubleshoot formulations based on a variety of parameters including stability, performance in internal and external production, extension of shelf life, and changes in regulatory. 
• Present seminars and training sessions on both synthetic and natural color systems to customers as well as trade associations. 
• Works internally with other departments (quality control, production, regulatory, supply chain) as well as other Sensient divisions to execute results. 
• Manage our technical database. 

What You’ll Bring:

• University degree (B.S. or higher) in Food Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related scientific discipline is required with 2+-years of experience
• Adaptability, learning agility, collaborative skills, time management, planning and organizational skills are a must.  Strong intrinsically motivated mindset, curiosity, creative thinking and entrepreneurial mindset are a must.
• Excellent communication skills. Experience in working both autonomously as well as in a team are a must. 
• Prior general color conception knowledge and/or the use of food lab and pilot scale equipment (spectrophotometer, colorimeter, extruder, panning equipment, etc.) is a strong advantage. 
• Travel domestically, if needed, up to 10-20%.

What You’ll Get: 

• Opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite 5 days per week 
• An excellent salary, benefit offering and development opportunities 
• A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond

SPONSORSHIP: Due to our inability to offer visa sponsorship, we can only consider candidates who are authorized to work in the United States without the need for employment visa sponsorship. 

RELOCATION: We are unable to offer relocation assistance. The successful candidate will be expected to work at our location in St Louis, MO and must reside in area or be willing to commute. 

THIRD PARTY AGENCY: Any unsolicited submissions received from recruitment agencies will be considered property of Sensient Technologies, and we will not be liable for any fees or obligations related to those submissions.

About Sensient: 

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.

About Sensient Colors:

Sensient Colors is a leading developer, producer, and supplier of natural and synthetic color systems for customers around the globe. The Company's high-performance products play a vital role in the manufacture of foods and beverages, cosmetic and pharmaceutical colors and coatings, and colors for agricultural uses, household cleaners and paper products. 

Sensient is an Equal Opportunity Employer, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

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