Product Developer Vegetarian Butcher

Job

CLS Services is a leading professional recruitment agency specialised in chemistry & life sciences.
For our client Unilever Research & Development we are searching for a Product Developer Vegetarian Butcher.

Keywords

• HBO / MSc.
• Food technologist
• Vegetable Protein
• Product Development
• (re) Formulation

For the Vegetarian Butcher we are looking for new ‘meat on the block’ to join them in the biggest food revolution of all times. In this journey they are travelling (and expanding) at the speed of light and therefore we are looking for a Product Developer who has the passion to change the world!
Since vegetable protein-based meat replacements are a relatively new territory in food science, the R&D department will play a pivotal role in the years to come. The TVB R&D team is looking for a food scientist to create and/or renovate meat replacement products.
The team is currently driving project delivery for different types of meat replacement products, such as chicken chunks, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, cold cuts, and sausages. As a member of the TVB R&D team, as product developer you will be involved in new innovations, renovations, and 5S-related projects.
It is important that you are highly passionate in creating delicious products and at the same time you have appreciation for the industrial recipe creation.
In this role, you will work together in a team with a technical project leader, process technologist, digital, marketing, supply chain, and procurement.
Your main responsibilities:

• Provide formulation related technical input to projects;
• Develop product formulations according to the business product design brief, processability and safety requirements;
• Update existing formulation in case of rejuvenation according to the improvements set/agreed;
• Perform product and ingredient physical-chemical analyses according to needs;
• In silico first approach (start with computer and later go to the kitchen) using available tools, predictive models;
• Support implementation of approved formulation in the sourcing unit through pilot plant and plant trials.

Profile

We are looking for candidates with a HBO or Masters degree in Food Technology and at least one year of relevant professional experience. You have knowledge of- and experience with Texturized Vegetable Proteins and/or Meat Processing. Additionally, you have a technical mindset applied to solutions and a strong eye for detail. Are you curious, learn rapidly and do you easily adapt your ways of working, then we are looking for you!

Benefits

contract for at least 6 months.
Salary: >43000
Days of leave: 38 fulltime in 1 year.
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Company profile

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On October 4th (world animal day) 2010 Jaap Korteweg, 9th generation farmer and meat lover, founded The Vegetarian Butcher. Together with a devoted team of chefs and scientists he created innovative and sustainable meat successors directly from beans and legumes. Great tasting meat products, perfect imeatations in flavor, texture and juiciness, but without the use of the animal. We sacrifice nothing! This was the start of our mission: to become the biggest butcher in the world.
At our core we are the purpose-driven rebels who want to be the first and the best on the plant-based meat-market. We try to make our mission a reality through Craftmanship, Human(e) Connections, Entrepreneurship, Rebelliousness, Humour, Passion, Optimism, Sustainability and Pioneering.
When Unilever acquired the company at the end of 2018, they joined in on this mission and committed to accelerate the biggest food revolution of all time.

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Contact

Interested? Send us a detailed curriculum vitae, accompanied by an application letter indicating your motivation. Please use our online application form. (See URL) (Vacancy number A2400065)