Director of Research and Development

Director of Research & Development – food products

Northern Georgia (relocation assistance available)

$150k-$190k + bonus

Established food product manufacturer needs a Director of Research & Development to lead a technical team to bring new products to market.

• Work with marketing, sales, culinary, and supply chain to identify and develop product improvement, line extensions, new product opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership for producible, repeatable, and compliant formulation.
• Manage product development and productivity improvement projects
• Interface with vendors to prove processes and align for manufacture.
• Oversee design documentation and product qualification
• Build systems to manage the many areas of R&D, report effectiveness of the work, and assist in directing the R&D team in coaching and prioritization.
• Manage the R&D projects, allocating resources to assure accurate and timely results
• Work with sales and marketing to build customer relationships to better understand their businesses and build custom solutions.
• Train and on-board new hires.
• Oversee lab and facilities maintenance
• Support customer demonstrations, ideations, and immersions; allocating time to innovation.
• Knowledge of ingredient functionality, food preservation methods, flavor delivery, HACCP, food safety, people safety, food manufacturing processes, food processing equipment, sensory testing, food engineering, packaging engineering, and experimental design
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• Experience building and managing governance processes to manage business.
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated success bringing innovative technology to market
• Relevant experience in food technologies and manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s in food science or related scientific field preferred.

Email resume to  and refer to job DRD-TM-26