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JOB PURPOSE

Ensuring that The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC) products are safe to consume is of paramount importance for the business. The Global Scientific Affairs function, which is part of RD&I, brings together Food Safety, Regulatory Affairs and Nutrition expertise to ensure that TMICC products are safe-by-design and compliant with relevant regulations & nutrition requirements. As well as protecting the business, the Scientific Affairs function is also key to unlocking innovations to enable business growth. One of such functions is the Global RD&I Microbiology team.
Global RD&I Microbiology is an agile team of enthusiastic world-class scientists who deliver business relevant microbiological solutions underpinning brand innovation programmes, based on scientific and technological capabilities across RD&I and Supply Chain (SC). The strength of the team lies in the integration of microbiological and processing knowledge for RD&I to develop safe/stable formulation & process designs to deliver winning products.
The Ice Cream Microbiologist will work in the Global RD&I Microbiology team delivering up-front microbiological solutions and security across our RD&I innovation portfolio and business operations, supporting iconic brands such as Magnum, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s. This is a critical business need as robust data-driven microbiological support: (1) provides the unlock to maximise value from data (faster and sustainable innovation, incident prevention and mitigation, cost efficiencies), (2) provides a solid basis to perform microbiological risk assessments and (3) enables the business to deliver better for you and planet products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Working as an integral member of our enthusiastic team of microbiologists, you will play a key role in supporting new products and processes development projects in RD&I and providing microbiological support to our global business operations.

Main responsibilities include:

• Support the Microbiological Clearance testing of ice cream products prepared at Colworth site.
• Preparing cultures of microorganisms required for experiments and for the maintenance of the Culture Collection.
• Identify and apply microbiological laboratory experiments to ensure correct and reliable data are provided for microbiological risk assessment and incident support.
• Ensure end-to-end quality in microbiology science-based data support, from design of experiments, followed by execution, basic (statistical) data analysis and visualisation, presentation, and reporting to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct science based literature search from a variety of sources contributing to safety, shelf-life stability and security across our R&D innovation portfolio and business operations.
• Provide technical advice and assistance to both internal and external stakeholders on microbiological specifications and methods.
• Team work in maintaining a high-quality laboratory environment and efficient working practices.
• Identify and adapt new methodologies/process/procedures enabling future fit microbiological solutions.