Application Development Executive (Dairy & Beverages)

Job Title: Application Development Executive (Dairy & Beverages)

Position Overview:

As an Application Development Executive, you will drive innovation in beverage recipe formulation and product development to meet customer needs and elevate our brand. Your role includes enhancing existing products, pioneering new applications, and ensuring precise documentation of lab-scale trials—all to give our company a competitive edge in the market.

Key Responsibilities:

To excel in this role, you must be able to:

• Gather consumer and market insights from the marketing team, considering trends, preferences, geography, and cultural factors.
• Experiment with innovative ingredient combinations and processing methods to refine and develop new beverage concepts.
• Formulate product prototypes using new or existing ingredients, recipes, and production processes.
• Conduct sensory evaluations (taste, texture, aroma, appearance) on prototype samples.
• Collaborate with the sensory team, integrating feedback to enhance product formulations.
• Continuously refine recipes and methods until optimal results are achieved.
• Ensure all new recipes comply with Malaysia’s food safety regulations.
• Develop accurate recipe costing, portion sizing, and packaging specifications.
• Maintain standardized weights, measures, and scaling calculations.
• Prepare Bills of Materials (BOM) and estimate product costs efficiently.

Position Requirements & Key Abilities:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, or related field in Food Science/ Biotechnology.
• Experience: Proven experience in account management within the B2B Food & Nutrition Specialty Ingredients, with at least 4-7 years in a customer-facing role.
• Relationship Management: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with clients.
• Sales Skills: Strong consultative selling skills, with a focus on incremental growth through upselling and cross-selling within an existing customer base.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Analytical Ability: Ability to gather insights on client needs and provide actionable recommendations.
• Customer Focus: A high degree of empathy, customer orientation, and commitment to satisfaction.
• Tools: Proficiency in MS Office and CRM software.

Key Personal Attributes:

• Customer-Focused: A commitment to meeting and exceeding client expectations and building long-term loyalty.
• Problem-Solver: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and address customer challenges effectively.
• Collaborative: Works effectively within a team, collaborating across departments to meet customer needs.
• Detail-Oriented: High attention to detail in managing client accounts, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of solutions.
• Integrity & Trustworthiness: Demonstrates reliability and builds trust with clients through consistent actions and ethical decision-making.

Please note that this is a general description of the role and its requirements. The duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment at the employer’s discretion.

About Connell Caldic

Connell Caldic is part of Caldic, a growing global provider of added-value distribution solutions for the life and material sciences, active across 43 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

Because we care, we touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day. We inspire innovative and sustainable distribution solutions for the food, pharma, personal care, and industrial product formulation markets of the world.

Our specialty ingredients and chemicals solutions, carefully sourced and customized to specifications whenever required, are backed by outstanding research & development, customer service, and technical & regulatory support, ensuring that they meet precisely determined needs at every stage of the value chain.

To learn more about Connell Caldic and our complete solutions offerings, visit www.caldic.com.

Caldic recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Our business success is a reflection of the quality and skill of our people. Caldic is committed to seeking out and retaining top talent to ensure top business growth and performance. We want to ensure that we are actively listening to our employees at every level of the organization and creating an inclusive workplace culture that recognizes and values all backgrounds, voices, roles and contributions.

To all recruitment agencies: Connell Caldic practices direct hiring and does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Connell Caldic employees or any other organization location. Connell Caldic is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes**

Job Title: Application Development Executive (Dairy & Beverages)

Position Overview:

As an Application Development Executive, you will drive innovation in beverage recipe formulation and product development to meet customer needs and elevate our brand. Your role includes enhancing existing products, pioneering new applications, and ensuring precise documentation of lab-scale trials—all to give our company a competitive edge in the market.

Key Responsibilities:

To excel in this role, you must be able to:

• Gather consumer and market insights from the marketing team, considering trends, preferences, geography, and cultural factors.
• Experiment with innovative ingredient combinations and processing methods to refine and develop new beverage concepts.
• Formulate product prototypes using new or existing ingredients, recipes, and production processes.
• Conduct sensory evaluations (taste, texture, aroma, appearance) on prototype samples.
• Collaborate with the sensory team, integrating feedback to enhance product formulations.
• Continuously refine recipes and methods until optimal results are achieved.
• Ensure all new recipes comply with Malaysia’s food safety regulations.
• Develop accurate recipe costing, portion sizing, and packaging specifications.
• Maintain standardized weights, measures, and scaling calculations.
• Prepare Bills of Materials (BOM) and estimate product costs efficiently.

Position Requirements & Key Abilities:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, or related field in Food Science/ Biotechnology.
• Experience: Proven experience in account management within the B2B Food & Nutrition Specialty Ingredients, with at least 4-7 years in a customer-facing role.
• Relationship Management: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with clients.
• Sales Skills: Strong consultative selling skills, with a focus on incremental growth through upselling and cross-selling within an existing customer base.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Analytical Ability: Ability to gather insights on client needs and provide actionable recommendations.
• Customer Focus: A high degree of empathy, customer orientation, and commitment to satisfaction.
• Tools: Proficiency in MS Office and CRM software.

Key Personal Attributes:

• Customer-Focused: A commitment to meeting and exceeding client expectations and building long-term loyalty.
• Problem-Solver: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and address customer challenges effectively.
• Collaborative: Works effectively within a team, collaborating across departments to meet customer needs.
• Detail-Oriented: High attention to detail in managing client accounts, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of solutions.
• Integrity & Trustworthiness: Demonstrates reliability and builds trust with clients through consistent actions and ethical decision-making.

Please note that this is a general description of the role and its requirements. The duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment at the employer’s discretion.

About Connell Caldic

Connell Caldic is part of Caldic, a growing global provider of added-value distribution solutions for the life and material sciences, active across 43 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

Because we care, we touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day. We inspire innovative and sustainable distribution solutions for the food, pharma, personal care, and industrial product formulation markets of the world.

Our specialty ingredients and chemicals solutions, carefully sourced and customized to specifications whenever required, are backed by outstanding research & development, customer service, and technical & regulatory support, ensuring that they meet precisely determined needs at every stage of the value chain.

To learn more about Connell Caldic and our complete solutions offerings, visit www.caldic.com.

Caldic recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Our business success is a reflection of the quality and skill of our people. Caldic is committed to seeking out and retaining top talent to ensure top business growth and performance. We want to ensure that we are actively listening to our employees at every level of the organization and creating an inclusive workplace culture that recognizes and values all backgrounds, voices, roles and contributions.

To all recruitment agencies: Connell Caldic practices direct hiring and does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Connell Caldic employees or any other organization location. Connell Caldic is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes**