As a Technical Service Manager for our Bakery category, you’ll work closely with customers, responsible for end-to-end product development in a wide range of Bakery Applications and Formulations.
You’ll be based at our European Innovation Hub in Lübeck (near Hamburg, Germany) with access to state-of-the-art equipment and industry expertise, but working with clients across the growth market of the EMEA region with international travel as required.
You will be focusing on key food trends such as: Sugar and Calories Reduction, Salt Reduction, Fat Reduction, Fibre Fortifications, and Recipes. If health and food innovation stimulate you, this is the perfect opportunity to lead some of the most exciting projects in the industry.
This is a hands-on role, responsible for carrying out bakery product development concepts and trials in labs, pilot plants, and customer production lines. The primary focus is serving the EMEA regional market, but as a member of our global Application and Technical Service network, you’ll get to connect with and learn from international colleagues across other T&L regions. With experience in Bakery formulations and an appetite to innovate, you will support our Regional Growth Strategy by applying your knowledge of bakery processes, and utilise the very best of our ingredients and food solutions to develop on-trend prototypes to meet our customer needs.
About us
At Tate & Lyle, we are dedicated to making more than extraordinary ingredients and food solutions. We are purpose-driven company dedicated to improving lives for generations through supporting healthy living, building thriving communities, and caring for our planet.
The Application and Technical Services Team are passionate food technologists, working across our Categories: Soups, Sauces, Dressings, Dairy, Baby Food, Bakery, Beverage and Confectionary among many other categories. Whether its research and experimentation to create innovative products for our portfolio or applying knowledge of ingredient technology to solve the Customer challenges, our Technical Service Managers are experts in their field, committed to providing healthier food solutions across the world
About the role
- As Bakery Technical Service (TS) Manager you will be hands on for the full product development lifecycle – from understanding the clients’ needs, developing formulations using innovative ingredients and food solutions, carrying out trials, presenting findings, moving from pilot plant production environments through to launch.
- You will get to show your technical knowledge and expertise across a broad range of bakery products – for example: Biscuits, croissants, rolls, pizzas crust, cookies, breads, crackers, desserts, bakery fillings, bakery snacks, nutritional and cereal bars, cold and hot baked processed products to mention a few.
- Managing a portfolio of projects, you will be responsible for prioritisation of activities in order to deliver the desired outcomes on time, maximizing the commercial opportunities for our Ingredients and Food Solutions business.
- Working in a growth market, we need to be agile and work at speed, never compromising quality of work, and adapting to diverse customer needs, ways of working and within the varied regulatory constraints of each country we support.
- You’ll be working independently, but also collaborating with your commercial and scientific colleagues but always closely connected with the clients you support – occasionally embedded in their own teams and/or locations as the project need requires.
- As a senior member of the ATS team, you’ll be helping drive cross-functional working in the European Innovation centre, promoting active communication to ensure the smooth running of Bakery project, leveraging the benefits of a multicultural team of experts to better serve our customers. .
About you
To be successful in the role you’ll need to have:
- A Bachelors and/or Masters level qualification in Food Science/technology/Engineering or equivalent, to support the technical demands of the role
- Product development experience in a broad range of baked products – for example: Biscuits, croissants, rolls, pizzas crust, cookies, breads, crackers, desserts, bakery fillings, bakery snacks, nutritional and cereal bars, cold baked processed products, hot baked processed products, etc.
- Proven experience in a similar role in order to make a quick impact – ideally gained in an ingredients company or from FMCG/consumer goods businesses and with an interest in learning about ingredients and food solutions in Bakery.
- Prior experience in food product development within EMEA is preferred to have gained firsthand experience of the diversity in local food legislation and cultural tastes across the region.
- Exposure to working in/around complex international organizations, and able to demonstrate working cross-functionally in previous roles.
- A customer centric approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluency in English Language skills (verbal and written) and any further language from the EMEA region would be particularly interesting (i.e. French, Italy)
- A willingness to travel across EMEA region
Location
Less than an hour from Hamburg, our Lübeck site, is soon to become our new innovation hub with expanded lab and pilot plant facilities, enhanced analytical and sensory centre, onsite training centre and new meeting spaces. For an insight into the work undertaken at this site, we were fortunate to have FoodNavigator profile us in the following article: Inside the Lab: Tate & Lyle reveals on trend prototypes
What we can offer you
Focused on our customers, with innovative products and industry experts to work with, you’ll join an extraordinary team, bringing opportunity to grow and develop on daily basis. We also offer:
- Competitive salaries
- 30 days annual paid leave, plus bank paid holidays on top
- Contribution for a private pension insurance
- Holiday allowance
- Unlimited contract
- Onsite canteen and complimentary water, coffee & tea
Please note: Our aim is to build a truly international center of excellence and as such we actively encourage applications from outside of Germany. However, as a global business, with English is our business operating language, please be advised that applications should be submitted in English.
Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.
