R&D Technologist – Savoury Snack

About the role

We are seeking a hands‑on R&D Technologist to join our savoury snack team at Kerry’s R&D Centre in Dubai. You will develop and optimise snack seasonings and noodle flavour systems from bench‑scale concepts through to commercial scale‑up, working closely with sales, marketing and operations to deliver market‑winning taste solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop cost‑competitive snack seasonings for extruded snacks, potato chips, nuts, crackers, puffed snacks and noodles.
• Design and execute bench‑scale trials, sensory evaluations and iterative optimisation to meet taste, texture, colour, cost and regulatory targets.
• Translate customer briefs and market trends into commercially viable seasoning concepts.
• Maintain raw‑material library, formulation databases and R&D trial documentation.
• Provide technical support during customer plant trials and commercialisation.
• Build and sustain strong customer relationships, delivering customer‑centric solutions.
• Drive new product development from concept through factory scale‑up in partnership with operations and manufacturing teams.

Required profile

• Hands‑on, creative approach with a passion for flavour.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, customer‑facing innovation environment.

Required skills

• Food formulation
• Sensory evaluation
• Product development
• Raw material management
• R&D documentation and data management