Product Development Team Lead

Drawing on more than 150 years of expertise across the agro-supply chain, our collective knowledge and close collaboration with our partner farmers, customers and suppliers makes us the go-to fruit and vegetable ingredients supplier for leading food and beverage manufacturers across the globe.

For the department Product & Process Development in Breda/Rijkevorsel, we are looking for a cooperative teamlead product technology with passion for food, processes and business. Ready for the next step in your food career?

Teamlead Product Technology & Food Development

Skilled, approachable leader with focus on customers in change and innovation processes

Your tasks and responsibilities

You are the connecting factor between the sales and production department, with your strong experience in product technology and your commercial feeling you know how to make a perfect translation towards the P&PD team (Process & Product Development), which you in turn can work with. In addition, your tasks and responsibilities are as follows:

• Develop products & processes on lab and pilot scale and support/execute upscaling throughout their factories.
• Working regularly in the laboratory and in the pilot plant in Rijkevorsel, Belgium.
• Provide answers to all relevant technical questions from customers.
• Responsible for technical support between SVZ and key-customers.
• Follow up customer related multi-disciplinary projects.
• Optimizing key-work streams and coordinating & executing technical (NPD) projects.
• You supervise scale up projects of new products in the factories in Poland and Spain.
• Lead (Initiate, coordinate and execute) innovation projects with- and for customers, closely with Sales.
• You know how to motivate and manage your team well

What do you bring with you?

• Bachelor degree in Food Technology, Process Technology, Product Development or similar.
• At least 4-5 years professional experience within product or process development in the (B2B) Food business.
• Experience with working in multidisciplinary projects (e.g. Sales, R&D, Purchase, Finance)
• Practical experience in a pilot environment is an advantage.
• Theoretical and/or experience-based knowledge in quality assurance.
• Willingness to travel (international) 10-20% of the time (e.g. plants in Belgium, Poland, Spain).
• Fluent in Dutch and English
• Experience in leading people/teams
• An international mindset
• Able to communicate well and convince at all levels
• Hands-on and a can-do mentality
• Good conceptual intellectual level and able to analyze problems
• Customer- and result-oriented
• Team player, pro-active and creative in sustainable solutions

What do we have to offer?

SVZ offers you an all-round position at a growing international company, part of Dohler Gmbh, that invests in sustainability and its people. You will be part of a professional team, with attention for initiative and personal development. At SVZ we offer you a pleasant working environment, a hybrid form of working in a nice office to meet nice colleagues. And of course a good compensation package with an end-years payment (4.5% of a years-salary), an annual bonus, 25 vacation days and 5 ADV days, and also the possibility of a hybrid way of working.

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4815 NG Breda
The Netherlands