Research & Development Manager
As the onsite R&D manager for the facility, you will lead the team as a hands-on manager supporting formulation and commercialization. You will work with a cross-functional team including plant manager, quality manager and operations manager to trouble-shoot, diagnose and implement action plans to optimize formulation to scale-up commercialization at the facility.
As R&D Manager, you will work with senior leadership in sales, marketing, and support initiatives with customers to ensure successful launch of products. As the leader for R&D at this facility, you will manage concerns and issues that arise, leaving your R&D team to remain on task to complete R&D projects.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Technical Qualifications:
As R&D Manager, you will work with senior leadership in sales, marketing, and support initiatives with customers to ensure successful launch of products. As the leader for R&D at this facility, you will manage concerns and issues that arise, leaving your R&D team to remain on task to complete R&D projects.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Use your formulation and culinary chops to design new products from benchtop to production in salsas and dips categories. Be able to showcase products at tradeshows
- Lead all technical development activities to scale up for commercialization, product launch, and post-launch monitoring including development of formula, technical label copy, products specifications, and quality criteria
- Develop, implement, and refine department policies and processes for regulatory, nutritional labeling, documentation and filing, product quality (sensory attributes) and other determined areas
- Works with HACCP team to modify HACCP/Food Safety plan accordingly
- Works closely with the Purchasing team to identify solutions and efficiencies
- Maintains library of product concepts, project proposals, completed project reports and shelf-life study reports
- Completes and documents in house sensory panels
- Uses nutritional labeling software to maintain formulas/recipes and generate ingredient statements and nutritional fact panels
- Uses nutritional labeling software to maintain formulas/recipes and generate ingredient statements and nutritional fact panels
- Maintains current formulas and procedures and develops new products
- Assists in maintaining quality programs, and technical information including ingredient specifications, shelf-life studies, formulas and procedures, and in-process analytical data
- Work in close cooperation with Sales and Marketing to present innovative products to customers and drive customer focused development
- Collaborate with cross-functional departments to commercialize new products
- Work closely with the Quality Assurance team on production protocols, product shelf-life studies and ingredient qualifications
- Provide coaching to junior team members
- If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Damon Wickmann at dwickmann@cps4jobs.com.
Technical Qualifications:
- BS/MS in Food Science. 7-10 years’ experience in the Food Industry in Research & Development with experience in formulation to production in CPG highly preferred. Can come from dairy, salsa, produce, desserts, dips. Refrigerated is ideal
- 2-3 years leadership as team lead or associate manager or R&D manager
- Proven track record of successful product development from concept to commercialization required
- Good understanding of formulating refrigerated products a plus
- Knowledge of Genesis is a plus
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently and work independently as your manager will be at another location
- Excellent verbal, written, and oral communication
- Executional excellence, personal leadership and customer focus a must
- Travel about 10% of time occasional
- If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Damon Wickmann at dwickmann@cps4jobs.com.
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Industries
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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