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Head of Partnerships & NPD (F&B)
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21 August 2026 (21 days ago)
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18 November 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Role Overview:
This role owns the organizations Food & Beverage innovation strategy building a pipeline of new products that resonate with customers and drive sustainable growth. It combines two things: spotting food and consumer trends and turning them into winning product concepts and forging partnerships with brands chefs suppliers and other food innovators to create differentiated offerings.
This role owns the organizations Food & Beverage innovation strategy building a pipeline of new products that resonate with customers and drive sustainable growth. It combines two things: spotting food and consumer trends and turning them into winning product concepts and forging partnerships with brands chefs suppliers and other food innovators to create differentiated offerings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set and drive the F&B innovation strategy and manage the product pipeline.
- Identify consumer and market trends and translate them into new product concepts.
- Own the full development cycle: ideation recipe formulation testing and commercialization through to post-launch review.
- Build and manage partnerships with external brands chefs suppliers and innovators for exclusive/differentiated products.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure execution quality feasibility and profitability.
- Track new product performance and continuously optimize the portfolio.
- Champion innovation and customer-centric thinking org-wide.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Food Science Food Technology Culinary Arts Nutrition or related field.
- 1015 years hands-on experience in food product development/innovation within retail food service food manufacturing or consumer goods.
- Track record of launching commercially successful food products.
- Solid grasp of consumer trends formulation ingredient functionality food safety and commercialization.
- Proven ability to build and manage external brand/supplier partnerships.
- Strong commercial instincts - balancing creativity customer appeal feasibility and profit.
Required Skills:
Food Product Development Recipe Formulation New Product Development (NPD) Food Safety & Compliance Ingredient Functionality Consumer Insights & Trend Analysis Strategic Partnership Management Vendor/Supplier Negotiation Cross-Functional Collaboration Commercialization Strategy P&L / Commercial Acumen Category Management Stakeholder Management Project Management Innovation Pipeline Management Menu/Recipe Costing Brand Collaboration Post-Launch Performance Analysis
