Chemist - Food Ingredients (m/f/d)

Das ist der Job

About KWS: KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies.

Darum lohnt es sich

You will be working with our state-of-the-art genetics, chemistry, and plant breeding teams. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years.

It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress.

To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. It’s exciting to work in a company where people truly believe in the purpose of what they do!

We are looking to recruit a Scientist (m/f/d) starting August 2025 to take a pioneering role in establishing a new competence in plant-based food ingredients within KWS . This is a full-time position limited to 12 months, serving as parental leave cover, based at our headquarters (KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA) in Einbeck, Germany .

You will be working on many parallel commercially focused product development projects. You will develop and validate protocols for the characterization of functional food ingredients. You will be in touch with diverse food applications of plant proteins. This is an excellent opportunity to be an influ