- Permanent
- Europe
- Netherlands
- Research & Development
- Nutreco
- Corporate
Do you have extensive cell culture media expertise and are you an innovator at heart? Do you have a strong business acumen while being an ambitious researcher? Do you want to contribute to making cellular agriculture a reality? Read further, we have the perfect role for you!
In our effort to provide sustenance to a growing population in a manner that is both safe and environmentally sound, it becomes imperative to incorporate a range of innovative protein production methods alongside traditional agriculture. Nutreco has partnered with cultivated meat and seafood enterprises to develop sustainable nutritional inputs tailored for the burgeoning field of cellular agriculture.
As the Innovation Lead for Cell Nutrition, your role is instrumental in fulfilling our mission of "Feeding the Future" through advancing cell culture media solutions for cultivated meat and seafood production. You serve as a linchpin in adapting Nutreco's well-established principles and capabilities as a global leader in large-scale, cost-effective and sustainable nutritional inputs for traditional protein farmers to the needs of the evolving cellular agriculture industry. In your capacity as a key driver for innovation strategy and the creation of product & service value propositions for Nutreco's emerging cell feed business, you are at the forefront of pushing technical and scientific boundaries to make affordable cultivated meat and seafood a reality.
Your role involves taking on the responsibility of coordinating and providing guidance to a forthcoming, highly skilled team, consisting of scientists, cell biologists, and premix technologists; your networking skills and motivational capabilities are crucial as in the early stages, the team will be comprised mostly of indirect reports from all business units of Nutreco, with the number of direct reports growing over time alongside the business. You will also play a critical role in steering the success of our external collaborations with cultivated meat and seafood partners.
Through your provision of expert counsel and direction, you ensure the effective execution of experiments, process development for commercial scalability and crafting of customized and proprietary cell culture media solutions that precisely align with the unique needs of our new clients.
What are your key accountabilities?
- Coordinate a small team in formulating and optimizing animal-component-free cell culture media and developing proprietary ingredients and related customer services.
- Provide expert guidance on experimental design and implementation.
- Act as a subject matter expert on cell culture media and metabolic pathways.
- Guide media preparation, process development and analysis.
- Shape the innovation strategy and identify areas for expanding research and assess value creation potential.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and independently manage projects.
- Stay updated on industry advancements, contribute to regulatory efforts and grants, and represent Nutreco at conferences and in customer acquisition.
What we offer
As Nutreco our mission is ‘feeding the future’. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. Working for Nutreco means an impactful role in an international, dynamic environment with complex and diverse topics. We offer you the opportunity to grow professionally, within Nutreco and the broader SHV group. Nutreco belongs to the SHV Family with more than 60.000 employees. There are also opportunities for growth through learning from the expertise of senior colleagues who are willing to share their knowledge.
What else is in it for you?
- We will offer you a fulltime hybrid position, 40 hours per week.
- Competitive remuneration package with a good pension scheme
- Flexible work environment with option to work from home several days per week.
- Position located either in the Netherlands (Amersfoort or Boxmeer) or in Norway (Stavanger), with hybrid working options.
- Remote working options can be discussed.
- You will get 30 vacation days, with the possibility to sell or purchase a limited number of days.
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning platform and we highly promote/create opportunities for personal and professional development.
- A unique opportunity to fuse life sciences and animal nutrition know how to make sustainable cultivated meat a reality.
- An informal global working environment with great colleagues.
- Belonging to the SHV Family with more than 60.000 employees.
What you bring
- Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Bioengineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of industrial cell culture media development experience.
- Extensive knowledge in media preparation, optimization, and compositional analysis.
- Strong background in experimental design, cell culture for a variety of cell types and metabolic pathways.
- Background in cell culture process development, and computational modelling is a pro.
- Proven leadership, project management and strong communication skills
- Collaborative and innovative mindset.
- Execution driven capability to quickly acquire new expertise and strong self-motivation.
- Solid understanding of basic business principles.
- Able to travel up to 25%.
- You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
Extra information / Apply direct
Are you the enthusiastic candidate we are looking for? We would like to hear from you! You can express your interest in this role by clicking the button “apply now’’ and we will contact you as soon as possible. Research shows that female candidates only apply if they meet (almost) 100% of the requirements, while male candidates do so at 60%. So, do you recognize yourself in this challenge, but are you hesitant whether you meet all the requirements? Then we look forward to receiving your CV. For more information regarding this vacancy, you can contact Arzu Sayin (Recruiter) at arzu.sayin@nutreco.com.
In case you do apply, we like to thank you for sharing your ambition with us!
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