Summary
Location
Wageningen
Type
full-time
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About this role
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Location: Wageningen, Netherlands
Hybrid
About the position
Ensuring clear, structured and high-quality data is critical to driving business, project and product insights. At Flora Food group we are striving to ensure high performance and reliable insights from our R&D systems such as spec management, project management and product life cycle management.
Do you get energy from bringing structure through organizing data in an dynamic environment?
Are you excited to support an R&D team working on a broad product portfolio, across (plant) creams, butter & spreads and cheese?
As a Data Steward/Specialist you will ensure data quality and process compliance within the various systems. Furthermore, the role will work with product and materials experts to create specs and product data reports. Through timely capture of data, gap analysis and doing regular data quality checks and clean-up this role will contribute to maintaining single source of truth across various R&D systems and improve the overall data management.
You will:
- Support Material experts to set-up specifications and lead gathering cross functional data to complete the spec.
- Be the central point for setting up product specs once product recipe/formulation is finalized by the development team.
- Trouble shoot recipe and spec creation in the spec management systems
- Keep track and report data gaps or quality issues in the R&D system (spec management and project management)
- Support Product data requests - data entry for private label tenders based on proposed recipes by R&D
- Create customer specification and technical data sheets for professional and industrial customers on SKU level based on the R&D recipe data
- Be responsible of mass data extraction, clean-up and reporting from various systems.
So what does it take to be successful in this role?
You are a motivated colleague with a strong affinity for data and a passion for driving data quality, accuracy, and governance. You hold a bachelor’s degree (preferably in administration, operations, or technology) and have 1–3 years of experience in product specification management or data management within an operational environment. You are strong in reporting and communication, skilled in Office 365—especially Excel—and ideally have some experience with tools such as Power BI and Power Automate. Proficiency in English is a must.
What’s Next?
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! The deadline to apply is February 9th.
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
Other facts
About Flora Food Group
The driving force behind our success are the circa 4,700 Flora Foodies who live our purpose every day and are engaged in our mission, delivering through our values of Performance, Care and Passion. Results Matter. With an ‘Always Day 1 mindset’. Always one step ahead, driven by data, with a finger on the pulse – our customers and consumers are at the heart. We identify the sweet spot; we relish challenge; we own it. We're agile decision-makers, with the courage to pivot, we sometimes fail fast - but learn even faster. Kindness wins. With a long-term focus on building a sustainable future, Flora Foodies show the 'Courage to Care' for each other, our communities, and the next generation. We believe in doing the right thing and 'Come As You Are' is not just a saying; it's an invitation to be authentic and bring your whole, true self to work. Difference brings angles and ideas to the party – we want you to be you. Passion fuels our Next Generation of the Food journey. Full of energy and possibility, Flora Foodies constantly raise the bar, driving the Flora Food Group and one another forwards. We're a team of food lovers and enthusiasts – our sum is truly greater than our parts, and we absolutely love what we do.
What you'll do
- The R&D Data Specialist will ensure data quality and process compliance within various R&D systems and support material experts in setting up specifications. This role involves troubleshooting recipe and spec creation, tracking data gaps, and creating customer specifications.
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