Act as a technical reference across multiple plants to drive standardization, consistency and performance of bakery products through regular on-site engagement.

Key responsabilities

• Analyze and compare formulations across plants to identify variability and improvement opportunities.
• Define and implement standard recipes and process parameters.
• Provide technical support to plants, solving product and process issues (e.g., structure, variability, yield loss)
• Lead technical improvement projects, including define scope and steps / Organizing trials and testing plans / Managing validation and approvals / Ensuring implementation / Execute and support industrial trials, ensuring proper scale-up / Optimize recipes and processes to improve yield, cost, and product consistency.
• Train plant teams in: Dough behavior and fermentation / Ingredient functionality (yeast, enzymes, improvers) / Process control
• Collaborate with Operations, Quality, and Procurement to ensure alignment.
• Interface indirectly with Global R&D to support standardization and knowledge transfer.
• Create technical materials for training

Education & Knowlodge

Required

• Bachelor´s degree in Food Science, Food Engineer, Chemistry, or related field
• Strong knowledge of bakery formulation, dough systems and fermentation as well as industrial baking process.
• English (fluent is mandatory)
• Advanced Excel

Requires frequent travel (up to 50%) across multiple countries in the region

Desirable:

• Spanish
• Experience in tortillas process, recipes and lines.
• Office Package (Word, PowerPoint, Copilot)

Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in process

• Strong numerical skills and ability to work with calculations.
• Strong logical reasoning and analytical thinking
• Ability to manage technical projects end-to-end.
• Structured problem-solving approach
• Ability to translate technical concepts into operational actions.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Effective communication between various functions and cultures, along with strong influencing abilities in a non-hierarchical setting, are essential.

The capacity to convert concepts into clear operational actions is also important.