RD Manager Product Innovation
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Job Description
Location:Hybrid in office 34 days/week
EMN is committed to promoting and supporting diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) within the workplace. Workplace diversity equity and inclusivity result in a more robust team culture improve organizational effectiveness and enable the company to better serve customers and the community.
The Role:
EMN is seeking a detailoriented and driven R&D Manager Product Innovation to join our team. Reporting to the Chief Science Officer you will contribute to the endtoend development of new innovative evidencebased nutrition products and establishing EMN as a centre of excellence in surgical nutrition. You will also lead improvements of existing products through the ownership of EMNs customer insights. The position foremost requires an entrepreneurial drive with curiosity vision an obsession with our customers and the ability to wear multiple hats including voice of customer strategic marketing and product development.
About You:
You are enthusiastic about innovation in nutrition and food technology and enjoy the challenge of participating in the creation and of new and improved products. You possess effective organizational interpersonal collaboration and critical thinking skills. You are thorough and get stuff done. You are a pragmatic problem solver who excels at interacting with and understanding the needs of others. You are curious and ask good questions particularly as it pertains to understanding our customers and how to solve their respective pain points. You are actionoriented and thrilled to take on new challenges. You excel at thinking outside the box and problem solving to complete tasks.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead the voice of customer research program to gain insights understand pain points and determine user requirements and barriers to entry
- Critically evaluate consumer concepts business opportunities and solutions to identify growth opportunities leveraging syndicated research trend data primary market research and competitive intelligence
- Consult technical resources (literature technical papers suppliers internal stakeholders to further product knowledge and to determine project feasibility
- Support commercial & financial vetting internally including product costing & feasibility
- Develop and communicate business cases to key stakeholders
- Lead product development improvement initiatives to improve the quality of existing products in response to customer feedback to improve nutritional value colour flavour texture and convenience or to improve cost efficiencies
- Work collaboratively crossfunctionally to help drive business alignment and prioritization
- Partner closely with sales and marketing teams to understand and integrate customer strategies into the innovation pipeline
- Provides technical leadership to manage develop and commercialize new medical food products that address specific health conditions in collaboration with the R&D team
- Translates business problems strategies and descriptions into cohesive narratives through concise and persuasive written content for funding applications
- Other ad hoc tasks or projects assigned by your supervisor
Your Skills and Experience:
- Prior experience in entrepreneurship or product for a food tech medical nutrition or medical device products
- Ability to immerse yourself in the nutritional problems faced by surgeons and/or their patients and to identify & evaluate nutritionbased solutions
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills that enable you to collaborate effectively with both internal & external stakeholders.
- Prior experience vetting opportunities developing a business case and/or business model canvas
- Prior endtoend experience in the product development process
- Proven ability to drive projects including product ideation & development from concept to launch
- Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities in a fastpaced and dynamic work environment that is common in startups.
- High selfmotivation and attention to detail.
Your Qualifications:
- Must have prior work experience in entrepreneurship or startup
- Musthave: at least 3 years of prior work experience in nutrition or medtech in product
- Must have: Degree in nutrition science business or related field
- Must have: proficient with project management software ClickUp Microsoft Office 365 including OneDrive Word Excel and PowerPoint
Why Work at EMN At EMN we believe employee success translates into the companys overall success. We offer a competitive benefits package a creative and friendly culture endless challenges tailored career development opportunities and a supportive management structure. If you are looking for a fun and rewarding career we look forward to hearing how you can help support EMNs scale.
- Competitive salary and compensation plan
- Competitive healthcare insurance including medical dental paramedical and vision
- Expedited career development
- Hybrid work environment
- Continuous learning opportunities
How to apply
- For more information please refer to our company website athttps://emnhealth/.
- Please send your resume to:
EMN is an Equal Opportunity Employer In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code EMN will provide accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment selection and/or assessment process. If selected to participate in the recruitment selection and/or assessment process please inform Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require. Thank you for your interest in joining the EMN team! While we are lucky to attract a high level of interest in each of our roles only qualified applicants will be contacted and selected for an interview.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
