Applications Coordinator

TITLE: Applications Coordinator

Company Background:
Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

We bring the potential of people, nature and technology together to make life better.

That’s our purpose. We are
_all IN_ to make life better

Every day, Ingredion employees bring their skills, creativity, and passion together to deliver ingredient solutions that enhance people’s lives. We are innovators who combine the power of technology with the best of nature to delight our customers and consumers. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in ethics, safety, quality and sustainability. Unlocking the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better is what drives us in every aspect of our business.

If you are interested in making life better, we are
_all IN_ to learn more about you A bit about what you can expect from the employee experience at Ingredion:
The chance to make a difference

No matter where you work in the company, you’ll have an opportunity to make life betterfor our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world.

Passionate people, motivated to excel

Our highly talented people have a passion for learning and achievement and are driven by our inspiring purpose to make life better and our core values: Care First, Be Preferred, Everyone Belongs, Innovate Boldly, and Owner’s Mindset.

A warm, welcoming environment

At Ingredion, everyone belongs We embrace diversity and foster an inclusive work environment where individuals feel supported and enabled to contribute their very best every day.

A place where you can grow personally and professionally

We believe everyone has great potential, and we strive to nurture that potential into great personal and professional achievements.

An environment that enables innovation and collaboration

We are creating the conditions that inspire and enable innovation - in our products and services, as well as in how we do our work day-to-day.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Analyze and prioritize projects to ensure Customer needs and business objectives are achieved.
- Provide effective communication with project stakeholders.
- Organize, prioritize, and oversees daily workload to complete assigned projects in a timely fashion. Acts a resource in problem solving daily operation.
- Give response time to project requests in accordance with the Applications Engineer.
- Manage the performance of all directs reports within the department.
- Manage operational schedule of Applications Engineers to set delivery dates.
- Provide direct reports with effective leadership through development and implementation of daily/weekly work plan, effective communication, provide necessary training.
- Ensure Customer (Internal & External) Experience during all Idea Labs interactions.
- Contribute to the assessment of laboratory capabilities required to enable the growth of the business.
- Identify new technologies, ingredients, materials, and processes that provide operational and strategic improvements.
- Determine short term and long-term lab needs to support solutions development and customer experience.
- Maintain supplies and make sure those necessary for laboratory functions are available. Preserve laboratory equipment performance by establishing quality standards.
- Continually check market trends, consumer insights and customer need to identify new business opportunities and propose new ingredient solutions. Create solid relationships with customers to detect new product ideas and translate them into a competitive advantage for the company.
- Ability to exhibit teamwork and take active steps to promote a good environment amongst the team.
- Establish training plans to improve technical skills and competences to achieve the best performance.
- Idea Labs primary contact both internally and externally for a broad range of inquiries.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in sciences and technical specialization in food area.
- MBA and / or MS is a plus.
- 3 + years’ experience in a technical team with direct reports, preferably in Applications, Product Development, Technical service, etc. with direct reports
- Strategic mindset with excellent analytical skills.
- Ability to utilize market research to understand growing trends for innovation.
- Strong project management skills and experience to execute work and deliver projects on time. Understands how project plans and pr