Food Science Consultant Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Are you passionate about food science but interested in exploring a career beyond the lab or production floor? This is a unique opportunity to combine your technical knowledge with creativity, communication, and strategic marketing.

As a Food Science Marketing Coordinator, you'll play a key role in helping food manufacturers understand and adopt innovative enzyme solutions that improve products and processes. You'll work alongside scientists, technical experts, and commercial leaders to transform complex food science concepts into engaging content, educational resources, industry insights, and marketing campaigns that reach customers around the world.

This role is ideal for someone with a background in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, or a related field who enjoys writing, storytelling, industry trends, product innovation, and connecting science with business. Whether you've worked in R&D, quality, product development, technical services, or food manufacturing, this position offers an exciting pathway to expand your career into marketing while staying closely connected to the science behind food.

• Transition from a purely technical role into a strategic marketing career while continuing to utilize your food science expertise.
• Become a subject matter expert in enzymes, ingredients, and food processing technologies.
• Develop skills in digital marketing, content creation, branding, campaign management, and industry communications.
• Collaborate with global teams and contribute to international marketing initiatives.
• Attend trade shows, customer events, and industry conferences while helping showcase innovative food technologies.
• Influence how food manufacturers understand and adopt new ingredient and processing solutions.
• Build a unique career path that combines science, communication, and business strategy.

In this role, you'll help bridge the gap between food science and customer engagement by:

• Creating educational and marketing content that highlights food industry innovations and enzyme technologies.
• Translating technical concepts into compelling stories and value-driven messaging for customers.
• Supporting product launches, digital marketing campaigns, trade shows, and customer-facing initiatives.
• Monitoring food industry trends and identifying opportunities to educate and engage target audiences.
• Collaborating with R&D, Technical Services, Sales, and Marketing teams to bring technical innovations to market.
• Contributing to website content, LinkedIn campaigns, email marketing, and promotional materials.
• Helping develop product demonstrations and applications that showcase the impact of enzyme solutions in real-world food manufacturing environments.

We're especially interested in candidates who have experience in:

• Food Science
• Food Technology
• Product Development
• R&D
• Quality Assurance / Quality Control
• Food Ingredients
• Flavors, Enzymes, or Specialty Ingredients
• Food Manufacturing
• Technical Services or Applications

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of South Elgin, IL.

The pay range for this position is $33.00 - $35.90/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a hybrid position in South Elgin,IL.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 17, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications withoutregard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability,sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protectedby law.

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