Senior R&D Manager - Food Innovation & Launch

High Liner Foods Incorporated.; Portsmouth (NH); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Pay for performance

Employee assistance

Wellness programs

Retirement planning

Disability support

Flexible policies & Summer hours

Learning & mentorship

Safety focused work environment

Zusammenfassung

High Liner Foods is seeking a Manager Research & Development (Core) to lead a team responsible for developing and commercializing core products. You will drive front-end innovation, manage the R&D portfolio, and ensure projects align with customer needs, timelines, and business goals.

You will translate consumer insights into actionable product and technology plans, oversee stage-gate development, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and suppliers to deliver launches.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Culinary Science, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in food R&D, product development, or food manufacturing.
• Minimum of 2 years of direct people-management experience.
• Experience leading and commercializing food products from concept through scale-up, first production, and launch.
• Experience working within a stage-gate or structured product-development process.
• Strong technical judgment balancing customer needs with quality, safety, cost, yield, and manufacturing capability.
• Seafood, frozen food, value-added protein, coatings, sauces, formed products, or fully cooked product experience preferred.
• Culinary training and knowledge of sensory-evaluation methodologies are assets.
• Strong project-management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Aufgaben

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of R&D professionals while setting priorities, assigning work, and ensuring accountability for project results.
• Manage the Core R&D project portfolio, prioritizing resources based on business value, customer timelines, technical complexity, risk, and team capacity.
• Lead front-end innovation and product-development activities, including opportunity identification, ideation, concept development, technical feasibility, and pipeline advancement.
• Translate customer needs, consumer insights, culinary trends, and business priorities into actionable product, technology, and commercialization plans.
• Oversee product development and optimization through stage-gate processes, including formulation, benchtop testing, sensory evaluations, customer samples, specifications, shelf-life studies, and validation.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Procurement, Supply Chain, suppliers, and customers to deliver successful product launches.
• Lead product scale-up and commercialization through line testing, first production, launch, and post-commercialization review.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex product, process, ingredient, manufacturing, quality, sensory, and shelf-life challenges, using scientific and root-cause problem-solving methods.
• Evaluate ingredient substitutions, supplier changes, formula modifications, process improvements, quality enhancements, yield opportunities, and cost-saving initiatives.
• Identify and advance new ingredients, technologies, processing methods, equipment, tools, procedures, and best practices that improve product quality, manufacturing performance, R&D efficiency, and speed to market.

Kenntnisse

People management

Food science

Project management

Leadership

Product development

Cross-functional collaboration

Sensory evaluation

MS Office

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science/Engineering/Cood Culinary Sci

Tools

MS Office

Jobbeschreibung

High Liner Foods is seeking a Manager Research & Development (Core) to lead a team responsible for developing and commercializing core products. You will drive front-end innovation, manage the R&D portfolio, and ensure projects align with customer needs, timelines, and business goals.

You will translate consumer insights into actionable product and technology plans, oversee stage-gate development, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and suppliers to deliver launches.