Nijmegen, Netherlands
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During your assignment you will be part of the R&D team. As an integrated team member, we welcome you to take part in the team’s activities such as team meetings & category meetings which will give you a real feel for the company and the business. You will be working with great autonomy and will interact with various colleagues from microbiology, product, process, sensory but also external partners. We are looking forward to your support on the sauces and drinks categories through increasing the knowledge, optimizing current solutions and/or finding new innovative technical solutions in clean label preservation. Assignment and key activities: Research on natural antimicrobials to enable replacement of chemical preservatives (e.g. benzoates and sorbates) for application in Kraft Heinz sauces. The Assignment will include: Run data collection from research studies, previous internships, literature and external partners. And contact colleagues internally & internationally, Use the data and apply scientific findings to design experiments for microbiological challenge studies. (Set scope, planning & design of experiment and apply key scientific knowledge & tests in microbiology) Determine the most relevant innovative technical solutions and support their application into products. (Compile & analyze trial results, DoE (setting up the experiment + data elaboration)) Evaluate main research findings and translate into business case (set conclusions & recommendations)
