Specification Specialist
Are you passionate about Data Management, Specification Management, Quality and have a background in Food Technology?
As a Specification Specialist, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining specifications for both finished products and raw materials within the FrieslandCampina Professional portfolio. This includes products such as cream, sauces, ice & shake mixes, cream cheese, non-dairy creamers, butter, milk powder, instant fat powders, batter stabilizers, whipping agents, and foamers for our global food and beverage customers.
You will ensure the products meet the required specifications, support processes and projects to optimize specification management system and way of working. In this role you will cooperate closely with Quality Assurance, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Product Development, and IT teams.
As a Specification Specialist, you will set the standard for specification management and inspire the FrieslandCampina Professional community to follow best practices.
What we ask
- Bsc or Msc degree, in the area of Food Technology or Quality.
- 3-5 yrs working experience in Specification management, Product Development or Quality Assurance in the Food Industry, Experience in SAP PLM and IPD is a benefit.
- You like data and data management: Strong data analytics and excel skills; experience with PowerBI is a benefit.
- Proactive, structured and well organized person with and a strong drive for results.
- You are customer focused and are able to act with speed and decisiveness to achieve the best results.
- You are an independent worker and a team player & have good communication skills on the relevant business levels in Dutch and English.
What we offer
- Location: Innovation Centre Wageningen (Netherlands). You'll be part of the FC -Professional specification team.
- Option for hybrid way of working.
- A role in an energetic and enthusiastic team.
- Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey.
- Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, fruit and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy.
- Your salary is based on the weighting of your job, your experience and your training. FrieslandCampina offers not only a competitive salary but also training and education on the job because it's important for our people to continue to grow. After all, your development is not only good for your career; our products also benefit from it. The mutual exchange of knowledge between colleagues is also evident on the work floor. It is, after all, the most effective way to learn.
Vacancy description
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Create and maintain specifications for raw material & product specifications to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Coordinate plan for up raw material specifications to ensure accuracy and compliance. Execution of the related projects.
- Collaborate & align with internal stakeholders (QA, R&D, RA, Operations, Procurement) on specifications and external suppliers for raw material specifications.
- Support the Product development teams on specifications and recipe related matters in new product development projects.
- Contribute to the further professionalization of specification management in FC-Professional.
- Lead projects to harmonize the way of working within the professional specification team and support the finetuning of the global specification management system (SAP PLM).
- As specification specialist you are a leading example how to deal with specification management and you will encourage the FC- Professional community to work accordingly.
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInFor thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.
We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
FrieslandCampina Professional & Trading is a world-class, global leader in dairy and plant-based value-added ingredients and solutions targeted at professional customers such as bakeries, fast food and coffee chains, hotels, restaurants, catering companies as well as industrial food and beverages companies & traders.
In close cooperation with customers and through the exchange of in-depth market, ingredient and solution expertise, FrieslandCampina Professional & Trading helps customers to win in their markets. FrieslandCampina Professional & Trading is a global business with sales offices, dedicated ingredient product and application development and production facilities around the world.