RD Manager

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Leading RDQ teams and influencing cross-functional teams
• Handling multiple priorities
• Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Applying technical curiosity and understanding to interpret and analyze data
• Effectively influencing senior-level and cross-functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical report conclusions
• Coaching and mentoring others
  
  

More About This Role

What you need to know about this position:

• Lead all process & product development for R&D projects on Growth (Innovation), Productivity, BCP & Quality Improvement.
• Lead and co-ordinate factory trials, commissioning & validation in collaboration with Quality & MSC teams.
• Lead exploration of new ingredients, formulation and process technologies and leverage expertise to deliver new product and process development for Biscuits & Baked Goods category.
• Accountable for product & process specifications to achieve target product KQAs.
• Work in multifunctional teams, delivering timely support on relevant tasks and represents R&D in meetings, activities & processes as appropriate.
• Provide regular progress updates against agreed deliverables & objectives and timely communication.
• Provide technical leadership and knowledge, being recognized as expert on relevant areas & able to transfer such knowledge.
• Build a global Network with the R&D community across Biscuits & Baked Goods platforms & ensure full knowledge transfer & global practices implementation.