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Head of Research & Development
Food Manufacturing Company
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Our client is a well-recognized food manufacturing company with a dominant market position in its core categories, selling branded products through national grocery chains and foodservice channels. |
SITUATION ANALYSIS
Our client experienced significant growth over the past decade, driven by expanding production capacity and a growing customer base of major retailers and foodservice distributors. This growth created the need for a sharper focus on innovation and product development, and the organization sought a new Head of Research & Development to guide its innovation strategy and support sustainable growth.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Head of Research & Development leads the company’s product innovation efforts, ensuring alignment with customer needs and market trends while steering the entire product lifecycle from concept creation through commercialization. This executive maintains compliance with regulatory standards and collaborates cross-functionally with Operations, Sales and Marketing to ensure new products are commercially viable and meet margin targets. The role leads all areas of product development, process development, packaging and culinary while building a high-performing team.
SUCCESSFUL PLACEMENT
Our placement brings over 25 years of R&D leadership in product development and commercialization, with proven experience spanning multiple categories. They have led high-performing R&D teams across retail, foodservice and national account channels, pioneering new product categories and launching consumer-validated innovations from ideation through scale-up. Known for connecting culinary creativity with operational feasibility, they bring deep technical expertise across protein and prepared foods along with a track record of driving innovation, product quality and profitable growth.
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