R&D Food Scientist

NURA USA LLC aims to be the premier next generation ingredient provider focused on delivering better ingredients. Our team consistently demonstrates a relentless desire to help our customers achieve success, pursues sustainable innovative ideas for future generations, and utilizes a long-term strategic approach to be a true partner to our customers in the dietary supplements, food, and beverage industries. NURA USA is looking for a Food Scientist.

Job Description:

The ideal candidate for this position has 3 years min experience to help our team (i) develop food, beverage and supplement formulations and/or commercialize new branded ingredients; (ii) provide customer-facing technical expertise and support to sales team; (iii) substantiate and evaluate current portfolio offerings for customer technical support; and (iv) carry out general R&D lab operational tasks and enhance our SOPs and standards.

• Develop Food, Beverage and Supplement formulations & support New Branded Ingredient Commercialization
• Carry out R&D teams’ substantiation and evaluation of ingredients through the New Ingredient/Vendor Qualification Standard Operating Procedure.
• Have a deep understanding of the ingredient’s businesses and commercialization of branded ingredients: specifically dietary supplements, food, beverage, and pet industries.
• Analyze market trends using AI and other available tools (consumer behavior, market segmentation, competitor positioning, etc.) and emerging demands to propose potential new product concepts.
• Present new product design concepts, benefits and advantages, potential applications to prospective audience.
• Develop new and innovative applications for food, beverage, and nutrition customers in an end-to-end, agile fashion in an agile fashion
• Manage material, document, market data, pricing, formulation etc. for research and new formulation development.
• Conduct experiments to evaluate new ingredients/formulations as defined.
• Collaborate with New Product Commercialization Team to develop commercialization strategy, go-to-market plan, and support sales activities for new products in a variety of delivery applications.
• Collaborate with Marketing on content and data required for sell sheets, presentations, publications, etc. for various trade shows, social media postings, events, meetings, etc.

• A significant portion of your role involves acting as the technical bridge between NURA and our clients. You will support the sales team by providing deep insights into our branded ingredients, competitive advantages, and market positioning, frequently assisting with customer-facing presentations and lead in-person formulation workshops.
• By understanding customer needs, you will develop prototype formulations and technical demonstrations that utilize NURA’s ingredient portfolio to solve specific challenges. This includes troubleshooting issues related to ingredient functionality, stability, sensory performance, and cost optimization.
• You will also provide essential technical documentation for NURA formulations and claim substantiation materials. Through building strong relationships with the technical teams of new and existing customers, you will help manage and prioritize a robust R&D project pipeline and independently manage customer-specific projects from inception through commercialization.
• Develop prototype formulations, application concepts and technical demonstrations utilizing NURA's ingredient portfolio to support customer evaluations and commercialization opportunities.
• Support customer formulation and processing troubleshooting related to ingredient functionality, stability, sensory performance, processing conditions and cost optimization.
• Promote NURA as a technical leader by presenting new product concepts and technologies to existing and potential customers.
• Partners with sales teams to build a strong R&D project pipeline by identifying and shaping new opportunities & presenting such innovative solutions as prototypes at trade shows & available to distribute as samples.
• Lead customer specific R&D projects and provide technical expertise and support to develop high-quality,…