1. Tasty Opportunities- Working In The
What is Co-crystallized
Food Industry
technology?
Tom Sanders- Tate & Lyle Sugars

2. 
History
Pharmaceutical
Di-Pac® (P)
• - Graduated in 2006 with 2:1 in Biological Sciences
• - Spent summer working on a conservation project
in Indonesia
• - Applied for multiple PhDs
• - Started first job in Food industry October 2006
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3. ‘Science’ Jobs in Food
-Product Development
-Technical/ Regulatory
-Quality Assurance
-R&D
-Packaging
-Process Development
-Sales Support
-Lab/Analytics

4. 
Pharmaceutical
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Di-Pac® (P)
Manufacturer of
various foods from
chicken to pizzas
• Graduate
Management
Scheme
Technical/
Operations
Manufacturer of Flat
breads and Mexican
food products
• Technical CoOrdinator
• Packaging
Development
Manager
• Innovation
Manager
Worlds Largest
Sandwich and salad
manufacturer
• Senior Concept
Developer
Largest Cane Sugar
refiner in the
world.
• Applications
ManagerSpeciality
Sugars

8. What do I do?
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Applications Manager - Report to Speciality Sales Director in Europe and CTO
in USA
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Link between our products and our customers
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Aid our customers in the development of their products
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Recommending products from our portfolio and doing trials to investigate this
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Developing new products to service their needs
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Building business cases for the pro active development of new products or
platforms
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Recommending new targets to our sales teams based on knowledge of market
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9. What skills are required for NPD
• A little bit of science goes a long way!
• Communication is number one skill required
• Lots of presentations and Excel work
• Confidence to advise senior colleagues on projects at
very early stage
• Pro active attitude to find out things yourself or track
down the people who are in the know
• Not afraid to get hands dirty.
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10. Why choose Food?
- Recession-proof industry
- Something we are very good at in the UK
- Depending on the sector it can be very fast paced but always
challenging
- Options in many areas of the business
- Industry is completely based on science and as such values the
opinions of scientists very highly
- Provides an option to use your degree in a commercial
environment which can give good financial rewards.
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11. Bad Bits?
- Can sometimes be dirty/smelly work- depending on sector
- Long days if job requires travel
- Job security is based on performance of company in a
very competitive area
- Competition
- Talking science with non-science people can be frustrating
- When your big idea doesn’t work out…
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12. Questions?
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