Product Developer – Beverages

About the role

As a Product Developer – Beverages you will support the prototyping and sensory evaluation of innovative beverage concepts. Working in a laboratory environment, you will help drive the creation of new‑to‑company and new‑to‑world beverage ingredients while ensuring safe and efficient lab operations.

Key responsibilities

• Screen and evaluate ingredients according to defined processes, documenting results in the team’s cloud storage.
• Liaise with approved suppliers to obtain product application information.
• Execute laboratory product development trials under supervision to improve sensory profile, cost efficiency, flavor stability and scalability.
• Prepare and produce beverage prototypes for internal and external evaluations.
• Organise research pilot brewery trials, including safety inductions, trial requests, ingredient deliveries and coordination with technicians.
• Manage receipt, unpacking, storage and shipment of lab materials and project packages.
• Maintain cleanliness and organisation of lab storage areas and support 5S implementation.
• Perform equipment maintenance, calibration and order utilities and consumables.
• Conduct physico‑chemical analyses of prototypes following standard procedures.
• Identify, test and implement new analytical methods and coordinate external testing.
• Organise and document sensory evaluations and taste panels.
• Coordinate shipments of prototypes and ingredients to stakeholders.
• Track competitor and adjacent category product launches globally and upload sensory data to the internal database.

Required profile

• Professional Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biotechnology, Laboratory Science or a related field.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment with a focus on food or beverage development.
• Strong attention to safety, documentation and organisational standards.

Required skills

• Physico‑chemical analysis of beverage prototypes
• Sensory evaluation and taste panel coordination
• Analytical method development and validation
• Ingredient screening and evaluation
• Equipment calibration and laboratory maintenance
• Laboratory trial execution and documentation