Join our passionate R&D team as R&D manager chocolate at our site Belcolade (Erembodegem).Lead dynamic projects in product development, optimization, and scale-ups at our Belgian chocolate production hub.Join the Puratos magic and become an expert in chocolate.
Key Accountabilities
You lead business development activities (60%):
* You support on product development and improvement, for customer projects and products for the general market (innovation)
* You support customer visits, at the customer and at Belcolade, for business development, protection of business at risk and for technical support
* In cooperation with the BU Real Chocolate: you take care of the implementation of specific research projects on the production site of Belcolade
You support and advice operations at Belcolade (30%):
* You support feasibility studies, implementation of new processes and the launch of new production lines.
* You support on processing improvement, cost reduction, raw materials screening and selection.
You create competence building (10%):
* You support to projects on real chocolate with research institutions, universities and suppliers.
* You participate in the organization of trainings for R&D and business development teams.