Food Product Developer/Application Specialist – Oat-based Food Ingredients

16-24 hours per week, location: Höganäs, Sweden

We are cReal Food (https://www.creal.se/), a Swedish FoodTech company with world leading proprietary technology to process and fractionate oat. We are a B2B supplier of tasty, nutritious, and sustainable oat-based ingredients for the food industry.

We are looking for a person who is passionate about plant-based product development and has a natural talent for developing tasty food in a scientific manner.

You are part of a small and dedicated team who is eager to succeed and bring out our delicious and innovative oat-based solutions to the market.

You have hands-on experience working in a kitchen environment, are service minded both internally and externally and have a flair for testing and creating great tasting food products for the benefit of our customers. The position is a new role based on the need to support our application area and technical sales.

The Food Product Developer/Application Specialist will report to the Application Manager.

About the position

You play an important role in a wide variety of product development projects and ingredients’ functional characterization tests.

The main responsibilities and tasks are:

• Practical hands-on work in the kitchen making standardized recipes and preparing prototype food products for customer meetings
• Develop new recipes with cReals’ oat ingredients
• Perform basic characterization tests of cReals’ oat ingredients in the laboratory, such as e.g. pH measurements and centrifugation tests
• Preparation and documentation of the work performed in the kitchen and laboratory
• Benchmarking of developed recipes against commercial products
• Support the commercial team in sending samples to customers and document it for traceability

Your profile

You have a background as food technician or a practical food background with relevant experience. You are familiar with planning, performing and documenting food application trials (recipes and procedures), and you have a good understanding of relevant analytical methods and terms used in the food industry. It would be an advantage if you have experience from the dairy, bakery and/or snacks industry.

Furthermore, you are:

• a team player and passionate about your job with a positive attitude
• proactive in your approach with high energy level and result-oriented
• ambitious and able to create great tasting products through a combination of both precise work and creative thinking
• a balanced personality – able to think and communicate openly

Good communication skills in English – written and spoken – are required for the role.

We are looking for a proactive and agile personality: Someone who is eager to dive into new food application areas and take an active role in developing solutions for our customers. A team-player who likes to take responsibility for their own projects and finds the right balance between “working in detail” and “thinking outside the box”.

Ready for a new challenge?

Please send your application that includes your CV and a motivation letter to [email protected]