Industry Technology Specialist, Baking, South Asia (Bangalore)

Exp: 8 to 17 years

Location: Bangalore(relocation mandate)

India/Butan/Bangadesh/Srilanka)

We are looking for an experienced Industry Technology Specialist to join our Food and Beverage team covering South Asia. You will be the responsible person for:

• Market specific technical & product knowledge in terms of ingredient usage, formulation practices, technical innovation trends & industry movement
• Sparring partner & input-provider to the sales force represented across the region. Act as a regional technical specialist and ensure best-practice & insight sharing
• High impact meetings & key customer interactions together with sales, marketing & business development colleagues, when a specialized technical dialogue is needed to inspire & convince customer’s R&D teams
• Work in close collaboration with the Baking labs to develop proof of concepts which meet customer and project expectations

In this position, you need to have:

• Relevant advanced degree (Masters) within food science / food technology/ Food engineering
• 8-10 years of experience within the Baking industry
• Strong track record of building baking product development, process & technical concepts incl. in-depth knowledge of baking ingredients and their functionalities and applications.
• Having experience in Biscuit Industry will be added advantage.
• Ability to drive inspirational & convincing dialogues with customers.
• Great network skills to build business & partnerships externally with customers, academia and industrial associations.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of working time
• Location: Shall be based in Bangalore, India