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

 

Recruiter:

West Coast Personnel

Job Ref:

CWAD0127-6

Date posted:

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market Related


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

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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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