Head of Cat Food Innovation & Nutrition

Butternut Box | B Corp; Amsterdam; Ibrido; EUR 100.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

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Equity option

25 days holiday

Learning budget

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work

Hybrid working

Team socials

Descrizione del lavoro

Butternut Box is seeking a senior leader to guide Marro’s feline nutrition, formulation and sensory strategy. You will define long-term product vision, build a multi-year road map, and drive cross-functional execution with Operations, Commercial, Brand and external partners.

You will own budgets, lead trials and research, sign off on product quality and claims, and partner with Marketing to articulate the fresh food strengths that keep cats happy and customers loyal.

Mansioni

• Be obsessive about why customers pause because of the food, and relentlessly reduce it, using pause reasons, customer feedback and cat response data.
• Own palatability performance. Define what winning looks like, measure it rigorously, and keep raising the bar against our own recipes and the best in the market.
• Make these two metrics the lens for every product decision.
• Own the product development strategy and its longer-term vision: where the range goes, what we stop, and what “the best cat food” means for us.
• Turn it into a prioritised multi-year roadmap grounded in customer insights, scientific evidence, and commercial goals.
• Make the call on trade-offs between nutrition, palatability, quality, cost and manufacturability, and stand behind them.
• Own the Marro budget for trials, palatability and sensory testing, external specialists and research.
• Build the business case for product changes, covering recipe cost, margin, savings and customer benefit, and make the call.
• Be our leading expert on feline nutrition, ingredients, formulation, processing, palatability and sensory.
• Set the benchmarks for what good looks like at Marro, and work with Operations to fix quality issues at the root.
• Decide what we need to learn through research, work with external specialists, and turn the evidence into better recipes and processes.
• Sign off product quality and claims, so we can stand behind everything we say. Work with Brand and Marketing to turn our food’s real strengths into reasons to choose Marro.

Descrizione del lavoro

Butternut Box is seeking a senior leader to guide Marro’s feline nutrition, formulation and sensory strategy. You will define long-term product vision, build a multi-year road map, and drive cross-functional execution with Operations, Commercial, Brand and external partners.

You will own budgets, lead trials and research, sign off on product quality and claims, and partner with Marketing to articulate the fresh food strengths that keep cats happy and customers loyal.