Rd&a Technologist

**About Kerry**:
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. 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.

**About the role**:
The RD&A Technologist Food Protection and Preservation role will report to the Senior RD&A Manager and is responsible for enabling business growth in food protection across Meat, Food and Beverage

**Key responsibilities**:

- Application Support for customers
- Analysing Pipeline on Salesforce and ensuring correct pipeline data
- Review pipeline opportunities of other technologies to assess if these could also be preservation opportunities
- Collaboration with R&D/Commercial team members in analysing the FP&P strategy to achieve objectives, business opportunities and commercial activities.
- Development of market research.
- Follow-up and maintenance of admin, preparation of presentations for internal and customer meetings when required.
- Facilitate all End-to-end activities to achieve best in class customer service.
- Preparation of and sending follow-up Food Protection related communications to customers and internal stakeholders (tech docs, quote requests, sample requests, opportunity creation, call reports, pipeline hygiene support & analysis)

**Qualifications and skills**:

- Food Science Degree or related with an analytical mindset.
- Project Management and Financial understanding desirable.
- Strong ability to work via multiple internal stakeholders in the Kerry matrix structure
- Driven and highly motivated
- Strong Communication Skills
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Fluent in English (C1/C2) and at least one of the following French, Spanish or Italian is required.