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Application Scientist, Food Colors Europe
Who are we? Customer-focused experts. Entrepreneurial thinkers. Creative collaborators. Headquartered in the United States, Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Our Research and Development teams shape the future by developing and applying specialized systems, ingredients, and proprietary technologies that bring to life our customers’ food, personal care, and pharmaceutical products.
Who are you? A big thinker who knows how to get results. Every day in Research and Development will bring a new opportunity to put your curiosity and knowledge to use.
Join our Innovation team, and you will use your scientific and technological investigation skills to develop state-of-the-art ingredients and revolutionary formulations and technologies. You will be part of a global network of Sensient scientists who make original contributions to new product developments around the world.
Join our Applications Team, and you will partner with our customers in our labs and at their facilities to achieve their vision, solve their challenges, and bring innovative products to market. You will work face to face with customers large and small, from multinationals with the world’s best-known brands, to cutting-edge startups.
Whether in Innovation or Applications, you will grow personally and professionally while doing exciting international work as part of our winning culture.
success profile
We are looking for Applications and Innovation team members who are:
- Results-focused
- Collaborative
- Skilled communicators
- Analytically rigorous
- Detail-oriented
- Intensely curious
Your journey
career path
- Lab Technician
- Application Scientist (multiple levels)
- Technical Service Manager (multiple levels)
- Technical Director
- Senior Technical Director or
- Innovation Intern
- Innovation Associate (multiple levels)
- Innovation Scientist (multiple levels)
- Innovations Manager
cultural points
The Sensient Six are the core values that drive us in our mission.
- Entrepreneurial
- Customer focused
- Develop self and others
- Collaborative
- Results driven
- Know your job
Application Scientist, Food Colors Europe
We are currently seeking an Application Scientist to join our Application team in Geesthacht/Hamburg, Germany.
In close cooperation with R&D and Sales, you will develop new product concepts, are a competent partner for our customers and the technical support to our sales team. In this responsible position, you will work closely with national and international colleagues to optimize our product range and to realize innovative solutions for our customers.
What you'll do:
- Realization of customer projects: development of application formulations in the lab, creation and optimization of application processes
- Provide product recommendations in e.g. Savoury or Pet Food based on Sensient’s colour portfolio
- Support of the sales and marketing at customer presentations and product launches, e.g. with application trials, prototyping and photographs
- Conduct technical seminars, trainings and presentations of innovative colour concepts
- Represent Sensient Food Colors at fairs and exhibitions
- Participate in national and international project teams
What you'll bring:
- You bring a university degree in chemistry, food technology or similar studies
- With professional experience in R&D, you have a strong understanding of the development, production and application of food ingredients
- Due to the nature of this role, you have very good communication skills in English
- Very good knowledge of MS Office; experience in dealing with a computerized inventory management program is beneficial
- We need a creative mind and you will show us your innovative thinking and creativity in the recruiting process, both in a team as well as in an autonomous roles
- As you will have customer contacts, we may occasionally require some travel, which you are willing and able to take up
What you'll get:
- The opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, onsite in Geesthacht 5 days per week
- An excellent development opportunity to grow your career
- A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond
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.
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