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 adecuado 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, osmolality, phase separation

📌 Senior Beverage Scientist (Madrid)
🏢 Glanbia
📍 Madrid