KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development.

Your tasks

It’s exciting to work in a company where people truly believe in the purpose of what they do! We are looking to recruit a Scientist (m/f/d) starting August 2025 to take a pioneering role in establishing a new competence in plant-based food ingredients within KWS. This is a full-time position limited to 12 months, serving as parental leave cover, based at our headquarters (KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA) in Einbeck, Germany.

Your new challenge:

• You will be working with our state-of-the-art genetics, chemistry, and plant breeding teams.
• You will be working on many parallel commercially focused product development projects.
• You will develop and validate protocols for the characterization of functional food ingredients.
• You will be in touch with diverse food applications of plant proteins.
• This is an excellent opportunity to be an influential member of a new initiative in the dynamic and fast-moving plant-based food ingredients trend.

Your profile

• MSc in Chemistry, Food Technology, Food Science, or related sciences.
• Ideally you bring first experiences in food ingredient development, formulation, and function.
• Experience in protocol validation is an advantage.
• You have methodological skills in the areas of project management as well as in the establishment of new lab protocols and their documentation
• You have excellent scientific communication skills and are able to "think outside the box".
• You are a great team player with positive energy.
• Very good command of English is required. Knowledge of German is an advantage.

What we offer

• As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence; this culture is lived in practice creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees’ professional and personal development.
• We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. the newest laboratory equipment), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
• We offer a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike.
• Health & Safety are very important for us: our company doctor, company fire brigade / paramedics (with time credit) and company sports create a solid base for this.

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