Product Developer Confectionery (100%)

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Product Developer Confectionery (100%) #

This is what you can achieve with us. ##

What is needed so that an initial idea becomes a Ricola product that delights people all over the world? Your sense of taste, your curiosity, and your food technology know-how. In our strong R&D team, you develop new recipes, test prototypes with regard to quality and our Ricola-typical properties, and accompany your ideas until initial production. In doing so, you help shape the future of our products and always provide new impulses to proven ones. It gives you joy to contribute to our team and to truly live our values in cooperation. In any case, an absolutely varied everyday life awaits you, which always revolves around our Swiss alpine herbs. Your mission:

• You develop new products in the area of Sweet Confectionery - from the first recipe approach via prototypes and scale-up to initial production
• You optimize and modify existing products and find solutions that convince in terms of taste, appearance, effect, raw materials, and costs
• You evaluate new raw materials and active ingredients and bring exciting developments in ingredients, manufacturing processes, and technologies into your work
• You test prototypes and scale-up samples with trained senses, your experience, and analytical methods. You also evaluate results from stress and stability tests
• You document your developments and test results in a traceable manner and ensure that food law requirements are met
• In innovation projects, you represent product development, make technical decisions, and take the participants along on the way to the finished product
• Together with Product Management, Marketing, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, Production, Quality Assurance, and Controlling, you bring good ideas into implementation
• You also take on central tasks in the team, such as maintaining raw material inventories, updating our system world, and supporting in the area of sensory testing procedures

Your ingredients for shared success. ##

• Degree in food technology, food engineering, process engineering, or a comparable education
• At least five years of experience in the development of food, ideally in the area of confectionery
• Sound knowledge in recipe and prototype development, sensory science, and scale-up, as well as a good understanding of raw materials, manufacturing processes, and food law requirements
• Joy in experimenting, a sense for new trends, and the drive to constantly make products better
• A structured, independent way of working and the ability to bring quality and economic requirements together
• Joy in collaborating with different specialist departments and in sharing your ideas and your knowledge
• Very good German and English skills in speaking and writing
• Experience with SAP-based recipe systems and sensory evaluation tools is a plus; knowledge in herbal and medicinal plant science or in extraction processes is also welcome

What you can look forward to. ##

Together we create greatness - sustainably and with foresight. Join our team and live the Ricola Spirit with us. More about what makes us a great employer at ricola.com/chancen.

Contact ##

Ricola Group
Pia Steiner
Head of Employer Branding & Talent Acquisition
pia.steiner@ricola.com | T: +41 61 765 41 98

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