Product Development Manager, Ingredients Excellence Centre (Cocoa)
Core
Lead end-to-end B2B new product development for cocoa ingredient solutions, transforming customer insights into commercially successful products.
Role type
Product Development Manager (Food Ingredients)
Builds
Cocoa-based ingredient solutions and prototypes
Domain
Food manufacturing / Cocoa / Ingredients
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product development lifecycle management, formulation and prototyping, scale-up and commercial launch, customer engagement, innovation pipeline management, food safety and quality standards, Design Thinking, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Cocoa manufacturing experience, customer-facing technical solutions, innovation workshop facilitation, Design to value processes
Technologies
IEC Laboratory equipment
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end B2B new product development from concept to launch, drive product innovation by identifying market trends, manage and grow the innovation pipeline, oversee IEC Lab activities and compliance, act as key technical partner to customers, collaborate with Commercial and Operations teams, facilitate customer innovation workshops, develop prototypes for evaluation, support product commercialization and scale-up
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC