Job Description

Glanbia is a global nutrition company, grounded in science and nature and dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life\xe2\x80\x99s journey.Today\xe2\x80\x99s consumers are increasingly aware of the importance of nutrition in improving their overall health and well being. They are searching for better, healthier and smarter nutritional solutions that fit their lifestyles.
Glanbia takes pure and clean ingredients including milk, whey and grains, and using our expert knowledge and capabilities we produce high-quality nutritional ingredients and branded consumer products for our customers and consumers worldwide.
We employ over 6,000 people across 32 countries and our products are sold or distributed in over 130 countries with an annual turnover of \xe2\x82\xac3.6 billion. Our major production facilities are located in Ireland, the US, the UK, Germany and China. We have four segments; Glanbia Performance Nutrition, Global Ingredients, Dairy Ireland and Joint Ventures & Associates. Our shares are listed on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges (symbol: GLB).

Application Scientist
Glanbia Nutritionals

The Application Scientist will be responsible for researching projects including product development, process enhancement, patent development and strong linkage to customers for joint development and technical support.
The Opportunity

• Work independently to develop formulate a wide range of commercially-viable food and supplement applications including but not limited to sports nutrition products, bakery products, nutritional bars, healthy snack, extruded snacks, culinary products, confectionary, plant based meat etc., utilizing Glanbia\xe2\x80\x99s board nutritional ingredients portfolio including dairy proteins, plant proteins, bioactive, vitamin, minerals.
• Support Sales and business development teams frequently for customer support and visits to customers. Provide technical support and have the ability to work directly with customers both on and off site.
• To conduct pilot or commercial trials, take formulations from bench-top to pilot plant and commercialization.
• Create new nutritional products concepts with Glanbia products that challenge existing market products.
• Gain fundamental understanding of plant processes used to produce all nutritional products and be able to assist production with trouble shooting such issues.
• Develop intellectual property in the form of patents to help protect and add value to the business bottom line.
• Interpret complex scientific data to show benefits of products under study, develop and deliver reports for both scientific and lay persons that communicate both the science and benefits of products.
• Educate sales force in both formal and informal training, particularly in new products that are being commercialized.
• Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods and supplements using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology and other sciences.
• Test new products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content and adherence to government and industry standards.

\xe2\x80\xafThe Skills you will bring to the team

• Master of Science degree (M. S.) or equivalent; or a B. S. degree with minimum 10 years\' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to synthesize new ideas and methods from reading and analyzing common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to write publication grade manuscripts and have experience in publishing scientific articles. Must have the ability to present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, and sampling theory.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

If you think you have what it takes, but don\'t necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please apply!

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At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status
At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.