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IFF

Technical Sales Specialist

IFF

Technical Sales Specialist leveraging bakery expertise to collaborate with customers at IFF. Leading trials and supporting commercialization of baking processes in the food industry.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeNew Century • Kansas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead and execute customer bakery trials, ensuring successful commercialization and performance at plant scale
  • Partner with account managers to support customer meetings, trials, and technical sales activities
  • Apply deep expertise in baking processes, formulations, and ingredient functionality to solve customer challenges
  • Serve as the primary technical interface during plant trials, service visits, and product evaluations
  • Troubleshoot product performance issues during trials, scale-up, and post-sale implementation
  • Support lab-based formulation development and testing when not traveling
  • Act as a technical bridge between R&D, sales, and customer operations
  • Validate alternative raw materials and support supply continuity through technical trial execution

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience in bakery, food manufacturing, or ingredient applications
  • Strong hands-on expertise in commercial baking processes (e.g., high-speed bread, buns, sweet goods)
  • Proven experience leading plant trials in customer bakery environments
  • Ability to translate technical insights into clear, customer-facing solutions
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across sales, R&D, and operations
  • Highly practical, credible, hands-on problem solver with plant-floor experience
  • Willingness to travel up to 70% in a field-based role

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401k
  • vacation
  • holidays
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave (maternity and paternity)
  • annual bonus plan

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Hard Skills & Tools
baking processesformulationsingredient functionalityplant trialscommercial bakinghigh-speed breadbunssweet goodstroubleshootingformulation development
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem solvingcustomer-facing solutionshands-on expertisecredibilitytechnical insightscustomer supporttechnical interfacefield-based role