Partner/Sr. Division Manager @ CPS, Inc. | Advising People
Sr. Manager – R&D Seasonings
Develops, leads and executes North America (NA) R&D activities across the Seasoning Product Category. Builds a robust technical product pipeline, through consumer centric innovation and product renovation (nutrition focused) which unleashes the growth, value and overall impact of the Seasoning Product Category in support of our Aspirations and 2030 Long Range Plan.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Leads, in collaboration with the NA Marketing Seasoning Product Category leader, development and execution of a targeted strategic plan for NA Seasoning Product Category innovation to identify targeted research opportunities with broad customer and market application
Responsible for Fiscal and Long-Range Plan innovation financial and impact metrics targets
Collaborates cross-functionally to assess market, consumer and customer needs, capitalizes on technical capability advantages and address capability gaps to identify future growth paths
Manages R&D process of optimizing the innovation portfolio across product categories, customer segments and geographies
Makes go/no-go decisions to prioritize and deprioritize projects as necessary and provides project updates in collaboration with Marketing and regional stakeholders
Partners with Marketing, Culinary and New Business Development to deliver proactive product platforms to deliver NA Product Platforms infused with innovation technologies and designed to solve consumer problems for a broad range of customers
Engages Purchasing, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering and other functions as needed to support innovation technology development and commercialization
Builds innovation culture across regional / unit cross-functional teams
Validates business cases and assumptions to prioritize innovation projects and support resource allocation decisions
Identifies and executes processes to protecting the integrity and confidentiality of technical innovations (security, patentability)
Identifies and collaborates with strategic partnerships to co-develop and promote intellectual property
Integrates tools and approaches the drive technology initiatives and their digital transformation
Regarded as an internal and external Seasoning Product Category though leader to enable Product Leadership positioning
Leads and manages resources to develop and execute project plans / briefs that communicate objectives, measurements, variables, methodologies, resources and timing required
Works with Marketing, Culinary, Sensory, Purchasing and Commercial Team teams to execute the commercialization / go-to-market execution plan
Works with Global R&D Product Category Leaders and regional teams to communicate, review and transfer innovative technologies, knowledge, ideas and project data
Works with Regulatory, Nutrition and Legal functions / resources to identify and assess the viability of new ingredients, technologies or functionality claims
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at [email protected].
JO: 169.24AKO
Technical Qualifications:
BS and MS in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Chemistry, Chemistry or a related science
Must have strong Seasoning processing, food safety and formula design experience
Minimum of 8-10 years of technical / scientific development experience in the seasonings category and/or support within the food industry
2-3 years people management experience
Strong analytical skills including knowledge of ingredient functionality across a range of food products
Strong research project planning, management and execution skills
Proven ability to develop and commercialize new technologies / process improvements
Applied research methodology identification and application
Demonstrated ability to organize and conduct complex experiments and provide direction to scientists
Proven ability to train and mentor internally and externally
Demonstrated experience of excellent communication, working well in a team environment, confidence, enthusiasm and initiative
Ability to work closely with customers
Excellent, concise technical writing skills
Fluency in English and Spanish is preferred
Ability to travel up to 35%
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at [email protected].
JO: 169.24AKO
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Science
Industries
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