Senior Beverage Scientist at Glanbia

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey

The Opportunity

The Senior Beverage Scientist will lead formulation, scale-up, and commercialization of beverage systems within the Glanbia Flavors portfolio, with deep hands-on expertise in microthermic (MicroThermics®) processing. This role partners cross-functionally with Flavor Creation, Sensory & Consumer Science, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations to deliver best-in-class ready-to-drink (RTD) and concentrated beverage solutions across dairy, plant-based, performance nutrition, hydration, and energy platforms. The idóneo candidate brings a strong grasp of thermal processing, stability engineering, and flavor/ingredient interactions to enable rapid prototyping, robust shelf-life, and efficient commercialization. This role will also formally and informally lead others.

Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product development for beverages: concepting, bench-top formulation, microthermic runs, pilot, and plant trials through launch.




- Formulate beverage with vitamin-mineral premix.
- Formulate around desired shelf life.
- Design and execute microthermic/UHT/HTST thermal profiles to emulate commercial conditions and predict product performance.
- Translate flavor briefs into scalable beverage systems, optimizing flavor delivery, sweetness, mouthfeel, and masking across bases (dairy, plant, water, protein).
- Build and manage experimental designs (DoE) to screen ingredients, processing parameters, and packaging interactions for stability and sensory quality.
- Lead microthermic lab operations (scheduling, sanitation, CIP/SIP coordination, run documentation, sample retention, and safety compliance).
- Partner with Process Engineering and Operations to define critical control points (CCPs) and tech transfer requirements from lab to pilot/plant.
- Characterize product stability using relevant analytics (viscosity, pH, density, osmolal

📌 Senior Beverage Scientist (Valencia)
🏢 Glanbia
📍 Valencia