Gelderland, Netherlands
Location: Wageningen
Hybrid
About the position
We are looking for an experienced product developer and technical lead who is passionate about designing the best product ever for our consumers worldwide. As product quality is key to delight our consumers, you own the product and process design of new products. You represent R&D in multidisciplinary project teams, delivering new product development and cost saving projects. You own R&D deliverables and leverage all technical expertise of the R&D functions while working closely with Marketing, Supply Chain and all other supporting functions needed to deliver the projects.
You combine the product design with technical project leadership. You are a hands-on person and enjoy performing lab, pilot plant and factory trials. Your responsibilities are global, and you will work on multi-country spreads projects in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Europe and potentially extensions of the portfolio into other categories.
This role reports into the Product Development Manager Plant Spreads and is part of the Global R&D Product Team based in our amazing Food Science Centre in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
On a daily base, you will:
So, what does it take to be successful in this role?
What’s next ?
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! If you have additional questions, you can send me, Elif Kocoglu, a WhatsApp message on +31615472665.
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