Product Development Specialist

About the Role:

The New Product Development Specialist will provide technical leadership for innovation and renovation projects for the ice cream business!

Thisrole serves as the technical and project management lead on project teams driving delivery of the “Innovation & Renovation”, “Buy Better”, “Factory support”, “Quality improvement” “Alternative supply” and “Vertical Integration” projects.

Ensures that all the products are developed and handed over effectively to run efficiently in the factories.

The New Product Development Technologist provides product & process knowledge and support to the factories to solve technical issues and drive continuous improvement.

This person will also drive efficiency by being the link between idea and execution, and ensuring products are transitioned to the plants in a way that removes barriers to production and enables speed as well as quality. They will spend time on the plant floor to provide product & process knowledge and support to the factories to solve technical issues and drive continuous improvement.

Accelerate your development with tangible real-time feedback – bring your ideas to life and be part of what happens next!

• Own the Implementation of Innovation & Renovation projects in the Market from brief to Factory handover.
• Work with cross functional team (Marketing, Factories, Procurement, Material suppliers, etc.) to scope, and drive project team, utilizing project management tools, to achieve project goals, respect factory capabilities, keep to deadlines to ultimately delight the consumer.
• Perform product & process development activities (e.g. mockup, bench top, pilot plant, distribution testing, and factory testing) to achieve project goals and deadlines.
• Assure accuracy and a timely hand-over of new product documentation to the factory team to allow for a successful industrialization.
• Completion of costs, concept and technical dossier forms and ensures technical and commercial sign-off.
• Ensure adherence to all regulatory, legal and company standards.Align with Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream requirements (includes Nutritional Requirement and Sustainability), external standards, and local regulatory framework.
• Work closely with internal procurement teams, and technical to ensure all new materials don’t add additional complexity and / risk and or waste to the factory
• Continuous improvement of technical skills and personal development, while growing internal and external networks.
• Develop expertise for product/process mastership within NPD.Develop the proficiencies required for product/process mastership to be able to support our factory operations.
• Provide first line support to factories. Ensure knowledge transfer related to product/process mastership to eliminate the root cause of assistance requests
• Has a strong knowledge of ice creamraw materials,recipe,product and process across the factories (Factory experience, Pilot plant, formalized learning and mentorship programs)

Open to change and will always look for better, simpler, and more effective ways of operating.

Decisions and plans based on seeing and being part of the event, not solely based on report reading.

Hygiene, Process, Labor resource and Waste.

challenges the status quo and explores new ideas and opportunities.

Continually striving to increase the knowledge of the processes and products - Understand all tasks, processes and activities as an expert in Ice cream.

Commitment and enthusiasm to working together to achieve better outcomes.

Personal commitment, full participant who uses personal impact to build the business.

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