Bakery Technical Services Rep

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

Corbion is seeking a Sr. Technical Service Representative with strong wholesale bakery manufacturing experience. In this role, you will travel 75% of the time to Key Accounts and provide assistance to customers in solving bakery operational problems and formulations. The qualified candidate will have previous bakery operations management experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide business insights
• Identify and develop new opportunities
• Execute customer account plans
• Ability to interact /collaborate with client’s management team
• Communicate effectively with Corbion’s Key Account team members
• Assist Corbion's RDA on testing and development of new technologies.
• Serve on internal customer teams to collaborate on risk and opportunities.
• Develop sales through testing and demonstrating Corbion products
• Review procedures and processes in client facilities providing technical solutions to existing problems
• Participate in plant start-ups that often require two weeks of continuous travel.
• Other duties as required

Qualifications

• AIB Graduate or industry experience equivalent with 5+ years’ experience in baking preferred.
• Extensive large wholesale baking background with management experience in operations.
• Excellent understanding of ingredient functionality, formulation, fully automated baking processes and operation of the equipment involved.
• Must have a good understanding of formulation in how to build a formula from scratch.
• Ability to start a project from conception, product development, R&D testing in our labs, and then implementation through plant trials.
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams and customers, with projects in our labs.
• Excellent process problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Above average training skills, and have the ability to develop and deliver seminars and training programs both internally and to customers.
• Must be self-motivated, with excellent written, electronic, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel extensively, both domestically 75% and internationally occasionally.
• Must be competent in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

About Corbion

Corbion is the global market leader in lactic acid and its derivatives, and a leading supplier of emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins, and algae ingredients. We use our unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production, health, and our planet. For over 100 years, we have been uncompromising in our commitment to safety, quality, innovation and performance. Drawing on our deep application and product knowledge, we work side-by-side with customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Our solutions help differentiate products in markets such as food, home & personal care, animal nutrition, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2023, Corbion generated annual sales of €1,443.8 million and had a workforce of 2,727 FTE. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information: www.corbion.com

Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

Corbion provides reasonable accommodation to applicants.

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Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.