Liquid Scientist

5 months ago


Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom Diageo Full time

Description

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From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Context/Scope:


This role delivers technical output that carries a financial impact (NSV targets of £4M), and that consistently delivers on the innovation business KPIs/needs. The individual is encouraged to handle multiple projects, initiatives and work streams with guidance from manager and L4 technical mentors. Leveraging commercial and consumer insights, you wil act as a source of technical and creative expertise on their cross functional project teams. You will recommend, design and influence the business to implement new product/ technical solutions for application in market. 

Financial

Development, review and management of project budgets.
Deliver Innovation programs within budget (varies by project up to £25k).

Market Complexity

Europe Innovation is led by a central team based in London, delivering across multiple European markets. This role takes broad range of consumer information to build industry leading liquids across total beverage alcohol. SPositive relationshipsacross functions and markets are required to achieve end to end delivery.

Leadership Responsibilities

Once direction is clear, demonstrates a high degree of organizational impact and influence across functions to deliver business objectives. With mentorship, designs, prioritizes and executes experiments to achieve the best business results. Aligns strategy with marketing, Sensory and manager in timely manner. Applies knowledge of industry trends and internal/external developments to improve individual/group performance and applies own and others’ creativity to develop powerful solutions in concept development sessions. Builds and nurtures relationships within and across functions crafting a culture of openness and information sharing. Understands and adheres to the appropriate legal and regulatory requirements of the region, and seeks creative solutions within regulations.  Shows tenacity in solving problems and raises issues with appropriate context; optimally identifies, analyzes and solves problems with minimal mentorship. Communicates optimally - Caters messages to audience and can simplify sophisticated technical issues into key messages and recommendations.  Consistently demonstrates excellent project management and follow-through on project commitments. Demonstrates degree of independent judgment, even in times of tight deadlines and reaches conclusive decisions after fully researching alternatives. 

Purpose of Role:

To make innovation the driver for organic growth and build shareholder value by creating highly differentiated new products (Liquids), which satisfy consumer and customer needs.

To drive competitive advantage through commercially focused technological innovation advised by consumer & strategic science activity.

To deliver new product and technical solutions, ensuring delivery of goals within budget.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

Actively initiates creative ways of working and cultivates a climate where creative thinking flourishes. Translates creative ideas into tangible business opportunities, leveraging deep consumer insights in liquid development work - catering the brief and scope to the consumer opportunities. Consistently crafts outstanding liquids across categories that meet internal standards for quality, cost and consumer testing hurdles – enjoys creative work on the bench top and brings creative culinary/mixology flair to development, constantly evolves as a liquid developer. Seeks out new ingredients/ methods for sophisticated outputs (even if they involve risk/ complexity); holds to the highest standards in delivering industry-leading liquids The individual demonstrates deep accountability for the end-to-end project execution and where required; seeks out and advises on commercial solutions to ensure project delivery.

Qualifications and Experience Required

Education

Bachelors degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Food Science, or related subject area required. Additional certifications including Masters or PhD a plus. Engineering or Applied Science Degree or recognised technical equivalent

Experience

Requires 3+ years of relevant project and/or research experience (food or beverage) including doctoral or equivalent experience or post-doctoral research.  Experienced in leading project teams; consistent track record of solving technical projects through to execution. Brewing, Spirits and/or Wine Development experience preferred.

Barriers to Success in Role:

Lack of experience working in a lab environment. Working in a silo and not demonstrating the liquid development knowledge and experience of peers. Inability to work on sometimes ambiguous briefs. Inability to work at pace.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bishops Stortford

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-06-13
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