Associate Director Formulation - Mars Petcare
Company: Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates
Location: Franklin
Posted on: March 17, 2023
Job Description:
Associate Director Formulation - Mars PetcareUS Relocation
Support consideredThe Associate Director for Formulation has
leadership responsibility for the North American Formulation Team
with oversite for ensuring that all products are formulated to meet
their design criteria, including product performance attributes,
nutritional targets, and food safety standards. The role is
critical in leading the team in their development by providing
cutting edge thinking to drive new ways of working, enhance overall
efficiency and capability, and promote intellectual curiosity. The
Associate Director is also responsible for the oversite of the
North America formulation climate agenda, enabling business
continuity, and leading the formulation value leadership which
includes strong collaboration with Commercial, Supply, broader
R&D and other key stakeholders.What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Science -Food/Animal Science
or related subject area Advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years R&D experience in a business environment
with established technical leadership driving projects and recipes
design deployment within R&D.
- Experience in people leadership/management
- Experience in single source nutrition and/or complete and
balanced foods is preferred.
- High interpersonal skills: conflict management, influencing,
collaborative work experience within R&D is preferred.
- Product formulation/design understanding and experience that
encompass using protein sources, grain/carbohydrates,
mineral/vitamins, animal fats and oils to drive design of a
nutritional product. A deep level understanding of chemistry of
ingredient interactions and their functionalityWhat will be your
key responsibilities?
- Provide technical leadership for leading innovation, product
maintenance support, productivity initiatives with respect to
respect to recipe, design and deployment.
- Provide people leadership through development, performance and
results.
- Define and leverage new ways of working within R&D
functions product, process and quality to ensure smooth product
handover from concept to launch. Drive clarity of thought through
cross functional engagement with external partners like supply and
commercial
- Influences and/or develops technical strategies and best
practices. The role will be responsible for the mentoring and
development of technical skills within the R&D
organization.
- Develop and implement new recipe design with systems experts to
leverage raw material data , manage and provide technical
leadership for business continuity streams in times where raw
material shortages are experienced.
- Draft brand specific policy/POV documents when it comes to
functional ingredients used in different brand techs in the wet
network.
- Work on horizon scanning of nutrition and formulation market
trends engaging in reverse engineering working process and product
development experts.
- Work to implement global policy guidelines pertaining to
nutrition, as well align with global food safety, toxicology, mold
& mycotoxin guidelines to ensure products compliance for the wet
formulations.What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all
guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build
the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one,
including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including
company bonus.#LI_BM1Find out more about what Mars can offer you by
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