Food & Fresh Produce Research Associate

GoLemon is an online grocery startup that delivers top-quality groceries and household essentials straight to customers doorsteps - at low prices. Think of us as the go-to for convenient affordable shopping all with a tap on your phone.

Behind the scenes fresh produce quality is one of the most important parts of our business. From sourcing and storage to processing hygiene packaging logistics and delivery - every touchpoint influences freshness shelf-life customer experience and operational efficiency.

Were building a new Fresh Produce Research function to improve how we handle store preserve and deliver fresh produce at scale. Our goal is to reduce waste optimise storage environments improve packaging standards strengthen cold chain processes and ensure our customers always receive fresh high-quality products.

Were hiring our first Food & Fresh Produce Research Associate - a smart hands-on curious and detail-obsessed operator with strong research instincts and practical experience working with fresh food agricultural produce post-harvest systems or food science.

When you join GoLemon you become part of the grocery e-commerce revolution in Nigeria! We deliver groceries to thousands of households and businesses within Lagos today - and were growing rapidly.

More about the role

As a Food & Fresh Produce Research Associate you will be responsible for researching testing and implementing improvements to how fresh produce is sourced handled stored packaged transported and processed across the GoLemon fulfilment pipeline.

Youll work closely with Sourcing Inventory Processing Quality Assurance Fulfilment and the Operations team to develop evidence-based recommendations that enhance shelf life reduce spoilage standardise quality and optimise cold chain operations.

You will run experiments collect field and lab-style data benchmark best practices across modern food and grocery supply chain operators and design improved SOPs that will push the quality of GoLemons fresh categories to world-class levels.

As the first member of our research function youll also establish the processes documentation standards and experimentation frameworks that will guide future hires.

Key responsibilities

Research & Experiments

You will :

• Conduct hands-on research and controlled experiments on shelf life ripening storage conditions and deterioration patterns for priority SKUs.
• Study post-harvest behaviour across different produce types (vegetables roots fruits and other perishables).
• Run trials under varied temperature humidity light exposure air circulation and handling conditions.
• Analyse outcomes and translate findings into clear actionable operational recommendations.

Storage handling & cold chain optimisation

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Quality standards & SOP design

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Packaging research & innovation

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Data analysis monitoring & insight generation

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Cross-functional collaboration

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Requirements

Your experience & what it takes to succeed

Youre a great fit if you have :

Bonus points for :

Benefits

Why join us

Key Skills

Laboratory Experience,ELISA,Immunoassays,Mammalian Cell Culture,Biochemistry,Cell Biology,Research Experience,Cell Culture,Molecular Biology,Microscopy,Research Laboratory Experience,Western Blot

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1