Company Description
ProPosition Management Search has been working in the HR Consultancy since 1997, supporting Client Companies in the Head Hunting of C-Level, Executive and Manager profiles, Market Mapping, Scouting, as well as deep Assessment processes, across different sectors. Over the years, we have developed business partnerships with multinational Companies headquartered in Europe, aiming at increasing their workforce both in Italy and abroad. For further details, we kindly invite you to follow us on Linkedin to stay updated with the latest job opportunities.
Position
Our client, an important multinational Group operating in the FMCG, is currently looking for:
Product Technical Performance Manager / R&D Manager – Fresh Bakery
The position will be placed in the Technical R&D Unit, which oversees end-to-end the research and development/industrialization and continuous improvement of the products of the category.
They will have the main scope to ensure the development of new products. Furthermore they will manage the development and improvement of existing products, also through close collaboration with plant technologists (and Technology Professional Family).
Main Task/Activities:
- Will ensure the category innovation through the development and the industrialization of new products
- Will ensure the quality constant improvement (performance) of existing products, of production systems and raw materials
- Will provide technical product-process support to group plant technologists
- Will coordinate the definitions of doses for new products
- Will ensure the coordination and supervises the execution in the plant of new process technologies tests and new machineries potentially impacting the quality of products belonging to the Category
- Will collaborate with the competent technical bodies, in the design of new machineries or modifications of the existing ones
- Will support the Category Process Manager in ensuring the structuring of the technological and product evolution plan for his own Category (new products, improvements to existing ones, etc.)
- Interfacing with HR he/she will be accountable for managing people assigned, ensuring a management system based on group values, motivation, competence development and empowerment
- Will recruit, manage, motivate, coach and develop own team
- Will Guarantee Human Resources professional development, evaluating people and proposing development initiatives
Requirements
- MSc or PhD degree in Food Engineering, Nutrition, Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or equivalent
- 10 + years of experience, ideally within R&D Lab in multinational FMCG companies
- Strong skills with MS Office (especially Powerpoint and Excel)
- English professional proficiency required, any other language is a plus
- Project Management
- People Management
- Excellent relational skills
- Complexity management
- Availability to frequent business trips (about 50% of the time, mainly to Europe and US)
Location: South Piedmont, Italy
Other information
Interested people should send a detailed Curriculum Vitae, with the necessary written consent to holding their personal data
This company is an equal opportunities employer. Candidates that will not receive an answer within 30 days, should consider the present selection process closed.