Product Developer (m/f/d) Dairy - Focus on fruit preparations

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your Role

• In this position, you will develop new formulations and concepts in the dairy sector, with a focus on the development of water-based preparations (fruit and non-fruit preps).
• You’ll work with a wide range of ingredients such as natural flavours, colours, stabilisers, fruits, and more to create market-oriented and innovative products for both dairy and plant-based applications.
• With your expertise, you will advise internal teams and external partners – both for existing products and new developments.
• You will produce samples – both the preparations and final products – assess them in terms of sensory and technological qualities, and present your results internally and to customers.
• Your workday will be diverse, taking you from the lab to the pilot plant and production facilities in Germany and abroad, to project meetings and sometimes directly to the customer.
• You will carefully maintain all relevant data and recipes in our systems, ensuring smooth documentation and traceability.
• You’ll collaborate closely with technical project management, sales, product management, quality, and production, and support the scale-up process through to successful implementation in our plants or pilot facilities.

Your Profile

• You have a degree in food technology, food chemistry, or a comparable qualification.
• Ideally, you have hands-on experience in developing fruit preparations or similar products in the dairy environment.
• You have knowledge of fruit and dairy processing as well as the use of functional ingredients like hydrocolloids.
• You work in a structured and team-oriented way and enjoy contributing your own ideas.
• Your colleagues value your committed and solution-driven approach to work.
• You are a strong communicator and can clearly and understandably explain complex technical topics – within the team as well as to customers and partners.
• You have initial experience working with SAP and standard MS Office applications.
• You are fluent in both German and English.

Your Benefits

• Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
• Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
• Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
• Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Luisa Rhein. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.