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A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.\nAbout the role\nKerry has an exciting opportunity supporting new product innovation for beverage applications in food service.\nKey responsibilities\nConduct research including new product research and the development of foods.\nDevelop new and improved methods and systems for food processing, production, quality control and packaging.\nWork in pilot plant and support production scale ups and commercialization's.\nField customer requests both internal and external to satisfy project needs from a conceptual phase through commercialization and troubleshooting.\n• Participate in ideation/brainstorming\n• Develop gold standards while working with Culinary and subject matter experts (SMEs)\n• Match competitive products\n• Formulation Optimization\n• Concept to Commercialization\n• Execute internal processes\n• Ability to understand and troubleshoot customer processes\nBe a strong part of customer facing team to deliver solutions that will “Nourish and Delight” our customers.\nCoordinate customer calls with sales/culinary representatives through presentations both technical and culinary based.\nWork with cross functional groups to optimize the strengths of Kerry and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for our customers\nDevelop and protect Intellectual Property by documenting research notes.\nStudy methods to improve quality of foods such as flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, convenience, or physical, chemical, and microbiological composition of foods\nComplete project requests within the time frame required by the customer.\nAssist customers with technical issues that may arise.\nTravel to Kerry production plants and to customers.\nQualifications and skills\nBS/MS/PhD in Food Science/Engineering/related science or engineering field.\n3+ years of experience in Beverage Product Development.\nKnowledgeable about food chemistry, sensory, microbiology, food packaging systems and food engineering.\nProblem solving skills.\nAbility to work with cross-functional teams at multi levels within the organization.\nMust be able to taste and smell chemicals, flavors and food products.\nMust be able to stand for long periods of time in a laboratory setting and lift 50 pounds.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2718,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Human Resources"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:58:03Z"}],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.482,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":28,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:49","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kerry-group-scientist-research-development-applications","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kerry-group-scientist-research-development-applications.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T03:33:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4983,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":17,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}