Application Scientist

Job Summary

Health & Biosciences is one of the four business divisions within IFF. Inspired by nature and distinguished by its world-class bioscience and microbiome capabilities, IFF’s Health & Biosciences division is a leading innovation partner for customers across a broad range of end-markets include home & personal care, animal nutrition, grain processing, microbial control, food and dietary supplements. Our portfolio includes animal health solutions & feed enzymes, cultures for plant-based food, dairy cultures, dietary fibers, food enzymes, and enzymes and yeast for fermentation alcohol.

The Health business within Health & Biosciences develops functional natural health and nutrition ingredients, including our premium HOWARU® probiotic products, used in dietary supplements, functional food, infant and elderly nutrition, cosmetics, personal care and other over-the-counter products. We continually develop new formulas to meet changing consumer preferences and customer needs.

The Application Scientist is a critical role in the Health Applications team supporting key application and formulation development for customer and internal innovation projects. This role manages the technical relationship with specific Dietary Supplement and Pharmaceutical customers in support of growing the business and developing a pipeline of opportunities.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

To succeed in this position, the candidate should be able to perform the following tasks, including but not limited to:

• Identify, assess, develop and modify new product or application concepts and/or technologies to provide solutions to identified (customer) problems.
• Manage projects from technical perspective focusing on application development and cost improvements aligned with the regional and global segment strategies and execution plans.
• Implement standards across the projects and communicate the project progress and outcomes.
• Ensure good documentation of technical development plan, project risks, compliance, product related documents, etc.
• Technical resource to sales professionals, customers and other internal/external partners, for examples, contract manufacturers, quality, regulation and operation.
• Contribute to translating product data into effective marketing and sales tools, provide product or technical training as needed.
• Provide application/formulation solutions to new and existing customers of formats ranging from capsules, sticks/sachets, bulk powders, oil drops, tablets and beyond.
• Design and execute technical experiments from benchtop to pilot scale including hygroscopic evaluation, powder characteristic, capsule and tablet forming and evaluation and so on.
• Support product commercialization from Formulation into Pilot plant and Finished Format Solutions.
• Identify and maintain internal and external networking with global Application, R&D, Regulation, Quality, Suppliers, Contract manufacture and so on.
  
  

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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