About us

Since 2015 Findus is a part of Nomad Foods, Europe’s the undisputed leader in European frozen food, listed on the NYSE, with consumer favourite brands including Findus, Birds Eye, Iglo & Green Cuisine.

Our purpose is to serve the world with better food and we are proud of the products we produce.

Nomad Foods have 8000+ employees represented in 22 countries across Europe and our top 5 largest markets are the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France. We’ve had 4 + years of consecutive organic revenue growth and our objective is to continue to grow through reaching more consumers with our loved brands and contribute to a sustainable everyday life.

Findus is the leading FMCG company within frozen food in the Nordics. Quality and taste as well as health and sustainability have been key for the business since the start in the 1940s. Our commitment to make it easier for everyone to cook tasty, nutritious, and sustainable food, every day is leading our work.

About the job

To lead R&D work in plant pathology and supporting crop production teams to achieve healthy crop. To carry out soil health diagnostics, trials, method development, maintaing pathogen isolate collections and contribute to pea resistance breeding. The role would require both independent work as well as collaboration with colleagues. The work will be primarily carried out at Agri R&D station located in Bjuv (Selleberga), Sweden.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Plan and design experiments for soil-born pathogens and bio-tests of soils for potential crop production, trial and seed production fields; based on data develop recommendations for Agri operation teams
• Organise training to ensure pathogen diagnostics and management works efficiently
• Administrate and send samples to external laboratories (if additional pathogen tests required)
• Organize seed health assessment, in case of deviations – evaluate presence of biological causes
• Develop diagnostic and selection methods
• Schedule and carry out microbiological and in vitro work isolating, identifying and purifying plant pathological fungi – applied in resistance breeding and diagnostics
• Run the sterile (microbiology & in vitro) laboratory including supply of chemicals and materials and assure laboratory equipment maintenance
• Support with material preparation and data collecting work (incl. documentation) during trials in field and greenhouse

Qualifications & Previous Experience

• Experience of practical work on trials both in field and greenhouse
• MS degree in a plant science related field (Agricultural Sciences, Crop and Soil Science, Microbiology, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology)
• Training and managing student labour
• Driver license category B
  

• Experimental design, and data acquisition
• Data management and documentation
• Microscopy
• Propagation in vitro (microorganisms, plants), sterile laboratory work
• Sampling – plant materials, soil samples
• Plant growing (greenhouse)
  

We offer

• Great personal and career development
• A culture based on our core values; we love our brand and the food we produce, we are accountable, we keep it simple to act fast and we are never fully satisfied and always striving
• An international environment full of energy with high performing and passionate colleagues in Selleberga, at our HQ in Malmö and Nomad Foods crop production divisions in Europe.
• Collective agreement & benefits package

Some of our Sustainability highlights in Sweden

• Reduced food waste in our factories year by year. In 2021 we reduced edible food waste with 17,4%
• Proud member of Hållbar Livsmedelskedja (Sustainable Food Chain)
• Proud member in Matmissionen in Sweden, a national project to establish the first digital national food bank, Matcentralen in Norway and
• 100% MSC & ASC certified fish portfolio
• 100% green electricity in factories
• Our pea “Ebba” is climate certified by Svenskt Sigill farmed in Sweden
• 80% of our Norwegian Vegetable products are farmed in Norway
• Read our Nordic & Global sustainability report from 2021 here.

About the position & application

This is a permanent position, with initial 6 months trial period and we’d like the right candidate to start in September/October 2023.

For any questions about the position, please contact recruiting manager Agnese Brantestam on agnese.brantestam@nomadfoods.com. 

We will screen applications continuously, so let us know about you and send us your application as soon as possible.

Note that we can not offer relocation support for this role.