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Join a North America team that helps meat producers unlock the full value of fermentation cultures, from flavor and color development to bioprotection. You’ll work at the intersection of customer needs, field sales, and lab‑based data to solve real production challenges and deliver biosolutions that make a measurable difference.
The role & your impact
In this Technical Services, Meat role, you will support field sales in the meat segment by translating technical insight into practical customer value. Your work will blend hands‑on trial execution, fermentation characterization, and project leadership—while aligning with global stakeholders to help scale learnings and strengthen our solutions portfolio.
Your key responsibilities in this role:
Must‑haves (day‑one requirements):
These are nice‑to‑have and not required:
Our purpose guides the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.
Opportunities for everyone
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.
We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.
Explore Other Openings
If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career
Join a North America team that helps meat producers unlock the full value of fermentation cultures, from flavor and color development to bioprotection. You’ll work at the intersection of customer needs, field sales, and lab‑based data to solve real production challenges and deliver biosolutions that make a measurable difference.
The role & your impact
In this Technical Services, Meat role, you will support field sales in the meat segment by translating technical insight into practical customer value. Your work will blend hands‑on trial execution, fermentation characterization, and project leadership—while aligning with global stakeholders to help scale learnings and strengthen our solutions portfolio.
Your key responsibilities in this role:
- Run and support new culture trials to validate performance in customer processes
- Use technical equipment to characterize fermentations and interpret results
- Participate in customer meetings to understand needs, ask the right technical questions, and recommend solutions
- Manage internal lab/data collection projects to build strong evidence for product selection and value propositions
- Collaborate and align activities with global stakeholders (including Global Applications) to share learnings and drive consistency
Must‑haves (day‑one requirements):
- BS degree in meat/food science, biology, microbiology, or a similar field
- 3 years of experience in meat processing/manufacturing (or closely related)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com, SAP, data analytics (JMP)
- Strong analytical skills with accurate reporting and clear documentation habits
- Curiosity and follow‑up mindset; ability to work independently with drive and initiative
- Technical confidence to ask the right questions, connect data to decisions, and turn findings into recommendations
- Technical understanding and structured problem solving
- Ability to translate technical data into practical, customer‑relevant recommendations
- Energy, passion, and a positive, collaborative attitude
These are nice‑to‑have and not required:
- Experience planning and executing customer‑facing trials across multiple sites
- Familiarity with fermentation culture applications and/or bioprotection use cases
- Project coordination skills across cross‑functional and global stakeholder groups
- Strong presentation skills—communicating technical insights to commercial and operations audiences
- A role with real customer impact—solving production challenges and demonstrating the value of biosolutions
- Close collaboration with commercial leaders and global technical experts
- Opportunities to grow your technical breadth, customer influence, and project leadership over time
- Customer‑driven field work with approximately 40% travel
- A mix of on‑site customer support, office‑based analysis and reporting, and lab/data collection responsibilities
- Expected base salary: $110,000 - $120,000 (depending on experience and skills)
- Target bonus: 10%
- 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
- Minimum of 3 weeks vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time
- Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
- Healthcare savings account option
- Employee assistance program
- Parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- All benefits begin on your first day
Our purpose guides the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.
Opportunities for everyone
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.
We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.
Explore Other Openings
If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career
Salary : $110,000 - $120,000