Project Leader

Ithaca, NY, USA

Full-time

Eurofins Product Development & Innovation (EPDI), a business unit of Eurofins Scientific, is a leading contract research, development and innovation firm for food, beverage, ingredients, nutrition, and supplement industries. With locations in Ithaca, NY and Lafayette, CO, EPDI supports new product development on the bench top and then scaling to the pilot plant and finally commercial manufacturing. Our clients include global CPGs, ingredient suppliers, and entrepreneurial start-ups.

We work closely with our clients, helping to define their project, and work as a team to execute and deliver quality results. We pride ourselves on our repeat clients.

Given EPDI’s business model, we work on multiple platforms, giving you the opportunity to learn new products and grow your skills. EPDI supports new product ideation and development across a wide range of platforms and process technologies. We work on ready to drink beverages in aseptic, retort and hot fill formats, nutrition bars of all types, snacks, meals, and confections. We support new ingredient research, evaluating applications and helping to understand how the ingredient functions and the best potential uses.

These skills are also applied to the supplement industry in similar formats.

We work closely with Eurofins Scientific’s Food and Feed Testing division. Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

At EPDI, the range of new projects coming through the door provides a great opportunity for inquisitive minds to continue to grow and we look forward to the next 40 years.

Project Leaders are well versed in all phases of the food product development cycle across multiple categories and technologies. They structure and manage research or development projects, interact effectively with clients, and possess business development skills to identify client needs, support new opportunities, and strengthen relationships. They manage and motivate project teams while ensuring client needs are met within the approved project scope.

• Demonstrates and promotes the company vision
• Regular attendance and punctuality
• Applies GMP/GLP in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate

• Uses project-planning documents/tools to direct the work of multiple projects
• Provides technical guidance and expertise on project experimentation, pilot plant scale-up, and commercial plant testing.
• Travels to clients or third parties as necessary.
• Develops and/or approves project plans, work orders, and scope change documentation.
• Reviews and edits reports, summaries, and emails as well as leads conference calls.
• Reviews and approves lab notebooks
• Tracks projects’ performance through interaction with clients, project teams and direct reports.
• Manages resource expenditures vs. project budgets, adjusts as necessary.

• Acts as the primary interface with clients to maintain and strengthen relationships during active projects.
• Understands clients’ needs, establishes project deliverables, communicates progress against goals, provides appropriate visibility to budget vs. plan, and ensures client satisfaction.
• Supports strategies and tactics to maintain and strengthen relationships during and between projects.
• Shares key…