Job Summary:
The Senior R&D Manager (Seasonings) develops, leads and executes North America (NA) R&D activities across the Seasoning Product Category.
THIS ROLE REQUIRES RELOCATION TO ILLINOIS
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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from four-year College or University in food science or related field required.
- Specific experience relevant to the food area. Minimum of 8-10 years experience in food product development/research and applications.
- Seasonings experince
- 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.
