R&D Manager (FMCG & Food & Beverage) - Boland Region - Competitive Market Related Salary

R&D Manager (FMCG & Food & Beverage) - Boland Region - Competitive Market Related Salary

The purpose of this will be to bring focus to innovation, new product development & sustaining processing initiatives to improve Quality, Delivery, Cost & Sustainable Competitive Product Portfolio.

Qualifications & Experience:

• MSc or PhD in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Similar
• 10+ years in the Food Industry Developing and Demonstrated track record in successfully Developing and Launching FMCG Food Products in CPG/Foodservice
• Strong knowledge of R&D processes and organization in FMCG companies
• Extensive knowledge of Technical Applications and Manufacturing Implication & Methods

Accountability and Objectives

• End-to-end responsible for developing products and driving innovation according to product roadmap
• Maximizes product profitability and improve product performances
• Assures competitiveness and innovation of products and processes from a technological and design standpoint
• Ensures and consolidates that the growth of the technical “know-how” within the working group is shared and constantly increasing
• Delivering on-time solutions’ and associated deliverables.
• Manages and develops a cohesive work team, absent of disruptive conflicts within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures and consolidates that the growth of the technical “know-how” within the working group is shared and constantly increasing
• Leads development projects
• Incorporates relevant design expertise and experience in projects in line with brand/product strategy
• Encourages creativity in R&D teams
• Actively searches for best-in-class technologies among competitors and develops innovation roadmap
• Cooperates closely with product managers to assure customer focus and target costing by defining the right allocation of resources; co-develops product roadmaps
• Supports R&D projects at group level participating in meetings and sharing technical information and “best-practices”
• Cooperates with design committee to ensure brand-consistent design of product ranges
• Develops employees assigned to the department, ensuring the correct application of tools and policies on training, career path and evaluations and inputs to compensation systems
• Lead a cross functional team and manage all aspects of innovation, new product development process, and sustaining engineering to deliver on-time and to budget new and updated products with exceptional quality which exceed the expectation of the customer and shareholder.
• Provide leadership and project management to prioritize workload and drive ownership at the design and execution level.
• Quality & Customer Focus: Continuously looking for ways to simplify and improve work processes to achieve better results. Considering internal and external customer needs when setting priorities.
• Manages others with a high level of integrity, confidentiality, ethics and discretion. Direct and open while maintaining a professional, respectful demeanor. Builds and sustains relationships with all stakeholders.
• Staff and manage engineering capacity and capability of a highly effective technical team that delivers the required business results on-time, in coordination with General Manager

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