Lead Product Development Scientist - Berlin, Deutschland - Bosque Foods GmbH

Bosque Foods GmbH

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Berlin, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

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Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

Job Title:
Lead Product Development Scientist (M/F/d) full time

Location: Berlin, Germany (remote not possible)
Starting Date: As early as possible
Duration: Unlimited

Company Description:

At Bosque Foods, our vision is to accelerate the world's transition to an environmentally sustainable, equitable, and animal-free food system.

Our mission is to create the next generation of meat alternatives, starting with whole-cut meat products grown naturally from fungal mycelium.

We aim to create better-than-meat products that deliver on the entire taste experience, nutrition, and price of traditional meat without compromise.

Founded in 2020, Bosque Foods is the first European fungi-based meat alternative company focusing entirely on the whole-cut meat segment.

After graduating from the world's leading biotech accelerator program, IndieBio in New York City, we are now opening our lab in Berlin, Germany.

Tasks

We are looking for an experienced and mission-aligned scientist to join Bosque Foods as Lead Product Development Scientist.

The core responsibility for this role is to research and develop innovative solutions to creating our whole-cut fungi-based meat-alternatives.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record in new food product development, in particular with experience in developing meat alternatives (bonus points if mycelium-based).

Ideally you combine a strong food technology/science/chemistry background with scientific expertise in the development of innovative meat alternatives and profound knowledge of texture technology and sensory science.

You should be a leader who can inspire, generate ideas, manage a team, and drive our novel products forward.

You would be joining a very ambitious, hard-working, and mission-driven team that likes to have fun while developing something game-changing.

Today, we are pushing to accelerate the speed of our product development. We are now looking for someone who can thrive in this demanding startup environment, work well under pressure, and is willing to put in the time and energy to bring our products to the next level

Role & Responsibilities:

Lead applied research projects to develop new, delicious and nutritious fungibased wholecut meat alternatives
Work in close relationships with internal and external R&D teams
Research and develop new food technologies and product building blocks, including flavor & texture interactions
Design, conduct, and analyze sensory and analytical experiments
Proactively collaborate crossfunctionally and manage multiple projects that adhere to fast timelines

Requirements:

Must-Have:

Masters / PhD in Food Chemistry, Food Biotechnology, Food Science, Food Process Engineering or related branches
25 years of experience in food product development or food manufacturing, ideally with min. 1 year of experience in the development of meat alternatives
Strong technical competency (texture optimisation, flavor reaction chemistry, sensory analysis) along with handson experience in the formulation of meat alternatives
Excellent understanding of interactions between different food ingredients or ingredient systems
Proven skills to analyze and report test results from trials to extract and effectively share new insights with the wider technical team
Creative and collaborative problem solver
Excellent communications skills with the ability to link with internal and external stakeholders
Growth mindset: Selfstarter with the capacity to thrive in a fastpaced and challenging startup environment, doing what needs to be done for the business regardless of your title
English language skills required

Great-to-Have:

Experience in HACCP
Experience in converting filamentous fungi into meatalternatives
Experience in developing offflavor remediation technology
Experience in scaling up products through pilot production (bonus points if experienced in scaling up to demo or commercial production)

Benefits:

Opportunity to join a dynamic and diverse missiondriven team with skyhigh ambitions to build the future of food
Chance to shape and cocreate scientific strategy at an earlystage
Work in our brand new lab in the centre of Berlin within walking distance of tons of cafes, restaurants, bars and parks
Last but not least, the opportunity to work in an innovative, highimpact environment with flexible working hours, mínimal hierarchy and endless growth opportunities