TAPPI Industry Career Center: Ingredion Seeks a Product Development Technologist

Ingredion is a leading global ingredients solutions company. They make sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials that are used by customers in everyday products from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. Ingredion turn grains, fruits, vegetables and other plant materials into ingredients that make crackers crunchy, candy sweet, yogurt creamy, lotions and creams silky, plastics biodegradable and tissues softer and stronger. Their innovative ingredient solutions help customers stay on trend with simple ingredients and gluten-free or high-fiber foods that appeal to today's consumers. Ingredion key values are: Care First, Be Preferred, Everyone Belongs, Innovate Boldly and Owner's Mindset! The company employs approximately 11,000 employees around the world. Their customers operate in more than 120 countries and represent 60 diverse sectors, including food, beverage, paper and corrugating, brewing and other industries.

Ingredion is hiring a Product Development Technologist who will be responsible for providing formulation expertise to external and internal customers for a broad range of Industrial applications. They will work with both product prototypes and the existing portfolio to find solutions that will work in our customer’s applications and make adjustments to formulations and/or products as necessary. The Principal Technologist will also provide technical support to our customers and be responsible for publishing both product technical and marketing materials to meet business needs.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Supporting new product development and proving out product portfolio’s functionality in customer applications and targeted markets and making adjustments/recommendations as necessary.
• Evaluating current product offerings compared to required functionality in targeted markets and making recommendations for either new product development or complete existing product modification.
• Gaining customer insights from the Sales and Technical Services teams on new technologies of interest and working closely with the New Product Development and go-to-market teams on commercializing those products. Supporting research and new product development activities.
• Performing assignments involving complex laboratory procedures with minimal supervision. Independently carrying out assignments, constantly reviewing data for accuracy and interpreting and communicating results effectively to project teams.
• Planning and carrying out laboratory & pilot plant experiments and organizing appropriate data and maintaining findings in electronic lab notebooks.
• Developing and maintaining a strong working knowledge of Ingredion’s products and customers. Collaborating closely with our Sales, Product Development, and Technical Services teams to deliver new business.
• Creating new product technical documentation in support of commercialization.
• Providing technical expertise and support to customers and our internal go-to-market teams on a broad range of product technologies and applications.
• Collaborating with customers, peers and managers both within and external to the Industrial team.

Qualifications & Education:

• BS degree in technical discipline with 5 + years’ experience in a Product Development, Technical Service, Sales, and/or Manufacturing role required.  Synthetic polymer background preferred.
• Demonstrated experience of creative, hands-on concept development using laboratory and/or pilot plant equipment.
• Strong project management skills and experience to execute work and deliver projects on time. Understands how project plans and priorities are set and resourced.
• Strong collaboration skills, ability to leverage networks both internally and externally.
• Familiarity with experimental design, statistical data analysis and results interpretation.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, collaboration, and technical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to analyze results and prepare findings in technical summary reports. Construct moderately complex data tables and graphs.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% of time.

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