Applications Development Specialist - Primient : Job Details

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We're investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we're focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting research and development activities focused on chemistry, biology, and applications of bio-based products. This role is responsible for supporting growth of Primient ingredients which involves designing/executing experiments, analyzing data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and product development within industrial market segments. Customer focused, innovative, collaborative, results oriented individuals in this position directly contribute to the product line success and the strong reputation Primient holds throughout the industry.

This is an exciting opportunity to come into a private equity-backed, market leading industrial manufacturer with a history of success and a strong reputation in the market. It has a long track record of success, a reputation for superior capabilities, along with a diversified and marquee customer base for whom it creates mission critical products.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of Primient's products and customers.
• Leverage Primient capabilities, and broad range of products, to explore and develop solutions. Clearly demonstrate and document the value of working with Primient and the solutions provided.
• Drive customers need assessments with cross-functional teams to identify technical requirements and commercial value for sales opportunities.
• Develop and deliver appropriate technical information to share with customers.
  • Support customer interactions through deep category expertise and ingredient performance knowledge.
  • Ensure solutions are customer relevant.
• Represent the team during technical interactions, by establishing and building relationships with key contacts, which entails gathering key feedback in a timely manner, along with an effective solution.
• Support new business development opportunities by providing product recommendations, technological feasibility, market information, risk assessments, and performance insights.
• Understand established, emerging and competitive technologies, ingredients, and solutions to ensure shared commercial success.
• Recognize customer concerns that must be resolved and be open to alternative paths that drive to a mutually beneficial resolution.
• Partner with Primient sales, technical service colleagues, and the customer to identify mutually viable solutions to meet application needs. Adapt and deliver compelling value propositions to expand sales and drive value.
• Perform complex laboratory procedures and projects with minimal supervision. Plan, organize, conduct, and support customer trials, lab work, and technical projects to fulfill commercial strategies.
• Complete technical reports and data analysis; coordinating with customers and field teams as needed. Perform experiments that are consistent with best practice research methods.
• Ability to effectively record developed test methods, SOPs and training documentation.
• Advocate sharing of insight and technical knowledge with Primient cross-functional stakeholders to drive company continuous improvement and communicate voice of the customer.
• Ensure compliance with both internal and external safety and regulatory standards.
• Travel required across North America for customer applications. Estimated average travel at