Company: The company specialises in designing, manufacturing, and commercialising premium flavour compounds tailored for the beverage industry. Their distinctive value proposition stems from their extensive knowledge in fruit research, development, and production, coupled with their proficiency in flavour design and beverage technologies.

Main Responsibilities

• Take the lead of the New Product Development teams: the Compound creation teams, the Emulsion manager, and the application and sampling team.
• Ensures that all the Compounds and EmuLsion solutions developed by the teams are fully aligned with the market's needs in terms of quality and prices.
• In close collaboration with the Commercial Management, ensures the pricing policy is aligned with the expectations and objectives fixed by the company Management. 
• Provides technical support to the sales team and participates in client visits if needed.
• Organizes technical training sessions for the sales and technical teams.
• Ensures coherent allocation of resources for project developments and defines the priorities.
• Ensures the Compounds and Emulsion creations are aligned with the appropriate regulatory policy, depending on the market.
• Ensure close cooperation with the technical teams and the category teams.
• Defines and monitors the investments and resources of the NPD department.   
• Participates in the elaboration and revision of the annual operating costs budget related to the NPD department.
• Participate/conduct the definitions and the updates of the NPD process guidelines.
• Participate in the management meetings.  

Key Requirements

• Technical degree in Chemistry, Food Science or comparable
• 10+ years exp. in a technical function serving the beverage ingredients industry
• Experience in leading R&D teams with a focus on NPD
• Vast exp. in Beverage industry specifically with compounds, emulsions, etc.
• Fluency in English & Spanish (French considered advantageous).