Principal Chemist

**Location**: PureCircle, Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan
**Reports to**: Head of R&D, PureCircle
**Workplace type**: On Site

**Company Background**:
Ingredion is a global Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that touch millions of lives, every day. With over 19,000 customers in 120 countries, we create solutions that help nourish, comfort, and delight people all over the world. We are proud to source our strength from nature. That’s why we’re growing sustainably, with an industry-leading product portfolio that includes plant-based proteins, sugar alternatives and clean and simple ingredients that deliver on changing consumer needs while protecting our planet. Although we are best known for our food ingredients, we are much more than a food business. We co-create bespoke solutions with our customers; from cosmetics and beauty to paper and têxtiles, to pharmaceuticals, driven by relentless curiosity. We make it our business to anticipate industry trends, and to bring together the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better.

We don’t just make ingredients. We create possibilities. Be What’s Next® with us.

**Core Responsibilities**:
Supervise 3rd party R&D activities, assess and validate 3rd party project deliverables
Operate in-house chromatographic, spectroscopic and other analytical facilities
Develop, conduct and validate new analytical methods and improve existing ones, c arry out analysis (various matrices containing naturally occurring compounds, including plant material and F&B products)
Support R&D team related to technical issues and investigation, participate in discussion with root causes and corrective action
Conduct basic maintenance, diagnostic and troubleshooting of key analytical equipment
Perform literature and patent search, review, analysis and feedback, including on newly emerging test methodologies and equipment
Provide chemistry perspectives & support to projects
Record and document all stages of R&D work, operate Lab information & knowledge management system (ELN etc.)
Prepare reports and presentations
Other assigned duties and responsibilities

MSc or PhD degree in chemical sciences field
Applied knowledge in chromatography (HPLC, LCMS, GC, etc.) and other analytical techniques (UV/Vis, NMR, IR etc.)
Knowledge of analytical, organic and process chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, naturally occurring compounds’ extraction and purification methods including: chromatography, membrane separation, crystallisation, biotransformation and fermentation-based processes
Fluent in English
Resourceful, able to work under stress and to lead troubleshooting processes in the laboratory environment
Self-motivated and results oriented, able to plan and execute tasks on a timely basis
Experience in implementation and maintenance of MS ISO 17025 would be of added advantage

**Relocation Available**: Yes, Within Country