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About this position

It’s an exciting time to join our newly combined organization and become part of the New The Mighty! We serve a large variety of end markets, and our products can be found in thousands of consumer products around the world. The Mighty is seeking for a highly dedicated individual to join our team as an R&D Manager.

Responsibilities

• People Management: Lead Product Development Team and deploy appropriate resources against development projects, managing R&D team and cross-functional working when required. Manage and prioritize work and projects which support the strategic plan for business growth and profit improvement.
• Country representative: represents The Mighty in relevant Global NovaTaste R&D ensuring alignment with functional goals and supporting the sharing of best practices and innovation ideas.
• Representing NovaTaste and The Mighty´s know-how in front of customers: you will develop strong regional customers’ technical engagement and relationships via on-site and customer’s facility visits.
• Technical & Leadership capabilities: Build technological and leadership capabilities across R&D team by developing an efficient team committed to excellence, performance and shared accountability. Develop top talent and manage and develop technical and leadership competency to address succession planning needs. Create a robust technical community to develop best in class practices and allow transfer of knowledge across functions, whilst maintaining required confidentiality.
• Renovation Champion: Lead Product Development activities to support local continuous cost improvement to improve margin performance that delivers a competitive edge, such as formula simplification and rationalization.
• Food Manufacturing standards: Implement effective systems and processes to enable functional and organizational effectiveness. Ensure activities related to the functional compliance with relevant Regulation/Legal Requirements, Business Ethics and Food Manufacturing Standards. Manage adherence to applicable Global, Regional and Local policies and standards to protect proprietary information.
• Compliance Management: Responsible for the overall health and safety of the R&D team and through the management of the Regulatory function, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology or related field.
• 10-15 years Product Development Experiences in Food Industry.
• Extensive experience in product development formulations (food) and demonstrated experience in the associated Manufacturing, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Techniques.
• Experience in leading product development and technical teams across various product categories (seasonings, coatings, condiments, sauces, meat products, snacks, noodles, etc.).
• Experience in multinational companies working across multiple regions.

Benefits