Director of Product Development & Commercialization

Ready to make your next big professional move? Join us on our journey to achieve our big dream of building the most loved restaurant brands in the world. Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.

Restaurant Brands International “RBI” is seeking a Director of New Product Development & Commercialization to support culinary innovation, product localization and product scalability through commercialization initiatives with suppliers across all international regions. This role shall provide technical support and expertise to the global Culinary, Quality and Procurement teams assisting in the execution of global culinary and procurement strategies across RBI’s brands which include Burger King, Popeyes, Tim Hortons, and Firehouse Subs.

The person that occupies this role shall work closely with cross-functional teams including Innovation, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Procurement, Operations, and Suppliers. This role translates culinary benchtop product(s) into commercially viable, high quality brand menu items which can be successfully executed and replicated across multiple markets.

The desired candidate for the role of commercialization must have a strong technical foundation (scientific education and/or discipline knowledge) and experience in commercializing manufactured products for key QSR (quick service restaurant) product categories like chicken, beef or baked goods. The ideal candidate combines deep technical commercialization expertise with a passion for culinary innovation, food science and continuous improvement within a global QSR environment.

RBI follows a 5 day, in-office work schedule to support collaboration. Candidates should be comfortable working onsite 5 days per week.

• Commercialize culinary products for new country entries (NCE’s), new product innovations and core product improvements.
• Demonstrate expertise in ingredient functionality and application to support product quality, consistency and operational efficiency.
• Attend trial production runs and assist suppliers in scale up decision making of RBI branded products.
• Assess supplier manufacturing readiness, process capability and scale up risks to ensure successful commercialization and launch execution.
• Complete statistical process control assessments and data analytic interpretation to support technical development of processing specifications.
• Identify process optimization opportunities to improve consistency, yield, quality and cost performance.

• Assist in executing launch of new and existing menu items from concept through rollout (all applicable regions).
• Work with suppliers and internal teams to evaluate ingredient functionality, formulation adjustments, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Ensure…