Senior R&D Technologist - Soups & Innovation Wigan, England, GB Posted 11 hours ago

Kraft Heinz, Inc.; Wigan; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraft Heinz, Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Product Development leader to manage complex food projects from concept to delivery.

You will lead prototyping, validation, and collaboration with suppliers and internal teams, ensuring high-quality products and consumer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Development within the food industry.
• 3+ years of experience managing a small team of technologists.
• Bachelor's or MSc in Food Science & Technology (or related field).
• Ability to deal with complex projects and build partnerships with other functions.
• Strong communication, influencing and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technical projects end-to-end across the company process.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, challenge decisions as appropriate, anticipate risks, and define mitigations.
• Execute prototyping, development, and validation.
• Collaborate with strategic suppliers to drive efficiency in insights, prototyping, and development.
• Coordinate resources to enable delivery of commitments across the portfolio.
• Manage multiple assignments with priority awareness.
• Ensure product quality standards and organoleptic properties are met or overdelivered.
• Deliver products that meet defined technical and quality requirements.
• Support growth and development of product technologists through coaching and development processes.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Excellent communication

Team management

Education

Bachelor's or MSc in Food Science & Technology

Job description

Lead complex technical projects end-to-end. Lead technically large and/or highly complex projects through the company process.

Partner with cross-functional teams, challenge decisions as appropriate, anticipate risks, and define mitigations or pivot opportunities.

Execute prototyping, development, and validation.

Execute prototyping and product development in line with the agreed brief and experimental plan.

Collaborate with and leverage strategic suppliers to drive efficiency in insights, prototyping, and development.

Contribute to and align other functions' activities within the overall project plan; drive timely completion of cross-functional actions.

Coordinate resources to enable delivery of commitments across the portfoli.

Manage multiple assignments/tasks concurrently with the ability to question the priority of work.

Ensure product quality standards and organoleptic properties are met or overdelivered.

Deliver products that provide an exceptional consumer experience and meet defined technical and quality requirements.

Manage, coach, and mentor product technologists to support growth, capability, and performance in the role.

Support direct reports through annual growth and development processes (including performance and development planning).

Bachelor's or MSc in Food Science & Technology (or equivalent in a related field such as Biology, Chemistry, or Engineering).

5+ years of experience in Product Development within the food industry.

3+ years of experience managing a small team of technologists.

Ability to deal with complex projects and build effective partnerships with other functions.

Consumer & customer focus.

Ability to translate science & technology into consumers solutions, strategic thinking.

Creative & energetic, flexible & pragmatic, resilient.

Strong communication skills, influencing and presentation skills.

Excellent communication in English.

Possess strong technical functional skills, champion in with routines, processes, WoW, methodologies; suggest changes and improvements.