Head of Methodology and R&D

About Meridia

Meridia is an AgTech company specialised in software solutions for field data within complex agri-commodity supply chains.

Meridia Verify®, a SaaS product, verifies supply chain field data against regulatory and voluntary sustainability frameworks in minutes and provides hands‑on guidance for risk mitigation. Procurement and sustainability teams eliminate commercial and reputational risk, prevent supply-chain disruptions, and shift from guesswork to confident, evidence‑based decisions.

Our mission is to improve the veracity of datasets that drive decision‑making in global agri-commodity supply chains. Our purpose is to build transparent and inclusive supply chains.

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As Head of Methodology and R&D, you lead the development, governance, and continuous improvement of the methodologies that underpin Meridia’s products and services. You ensure that complex sustainability frameworks, scientific evidence, regulatory requirements, and field realities are translated into clear, practical, auditable, and defensible prescriptions that can be understood and applied by both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will set the strategic direction of Meridia’s methodology and research agenda while remaining hands‑on in the development and review of methodologies. You will lead a methodology function, manage direct reports, and build the team’s capabilities over time.

You do not need to have worked directly with every framework, commodity, or regulatory requirement relevant to Meridia. We are looking for someone with strong direct or adjacent expertise and the ability to rapidly build knowledge, assess unfamiliar frameworks, and turn them into robust and operational approaches.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Management teams to ensure that methodological requirements are implemented effectively. Previous experience working directly with a downstream product engine or within a software product team is valuable but not essential.

You will be based in the Netherlands and will work closely with our teams in the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Brazil, as well as our country teams. You will report to the CEO in the Netherlands.

The Head of Methodology and R&D has the following areas of work and responsibilities:

Methodology Translation and R&D

• Convert regulatory requirements, voluntary frameworks, standards, scientific evidence, and stakeholder expectations into clear methodological rules, decision criteria, procedures, and guidance.
• Produce methodology documentation that is consistent, auditable, implementable, and suitable for both internal and external use.
• Ensure alignment of methodologies with regulatory and industry requirements (e.g. EUDR, DCF, Scope 3 and other voluntary commitment frameworks and standards, legislation)
• Explain complex methodological choices in language that is clear and convincing to non-technical colleagues, customers, suppliers, auditors, and other stakeholders.
• Turn research insights, scientific advances, and field learnings into scalable methodologies, products, and an R&D agenda.

Product and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Commercial and Management teams to ensure methodologies are embedded correctly into products, and are scalable across profiles, commodities, origins
• Engage with and translate external stakeholder requirements (input from partners, clients, industry experts, and regulatory and voluntary frameworks) into concrete methodology and product decisions
• Make pragmatic methodological decisions that optimise for commercial benefit: finding the right balance between scientific depth and speed of delivery, given the resources at hand
• Translate methodological complexity into clear internal guidance and external documentation that supports customer value propositions
• Ensure feedback from clients, partners, and implementations feeds back into continuous methodological improvement

External Engagement

• Act as Meridia's most senior expert counterpart to partners when aligning on and discussing methodology details, proposals, changes, and results
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