Color Technical Manager

Leadership and Coordination of applications team and activities focused on customer briefs.

Principal Responsibilities

All Positions

• Uphold DDW's Mission Statement, Quality Policy, and Values and Beliefs.
• Perform work accurately and reliably with proper thoroughness according to established procedures.
• Proper work ethic including being at work when scheduled, arriving to work on time, and being ready to work at the start of the workday or shift.

Color Technical Manager

• Provide management of short-term improvement and application projects to sustain and grow business.
• Provide technical leadership working closely with the commercial team to enhance the customer experience.
• Lead the assigned team of scientists in carrying out project work and developing commercially successful technologies.
• Lead and develop the assigned team of application scientists, enhancing their skill sets to establish them as experts.
• Provide expert input into current innovation activities and roadmap.

Environmental Health & Safety

• Utilize EH&S policies to maintain a safe, clean, and organized lab environment.

Management

• Manage a team of color technical /application experts
• Develop application work within the NOAM SCBU team
• Build and manage budget (OPEX, CAPEX) for the Louisville team/lab
• Develop and implement an application training plan for the team
• Ensure resources required by a team within Givaudan but outside of SCBU are obtained by developing a broad set of relationships within the required departments inside of Givaudan
• Take responsibility for building a diverse and inclusive environment and use different styles, thinking, and approaches.

Project execution

• Guide excellence of project execution and communication
• Participate in project assessment meetings and manage project briefs using CRM systems.
• Lead and follow execution of the application customer projects for the Louisville-based team.
• Support customer visits, calls, and presentations as a color technical expert.
• Provide support to the sales and wider Givaudan team, for integrated solutions and multi-ingredient briefs, on technical questions and selection.
• Complete experimental lab work on a specific topic/technology new to the team or to absorb workload.

Skill Requirements

• Master's degree in food science or an adjacent science field.
• 5+ years' experience in a customer-facing scientific role in the natural colours ingredients industry with people management experience.
• Relevant experience in natural ingredients, food, or beverage industry.

Technical Skills

• Expert understanding of natural colours and their performance in application.
• Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality Systems (such as GFSI, AIB, ISO, GMP, GHP, HACCP)
• Project management experience