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Location

Aimargues, Gard | France

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Job description

Description de poste :

Location : Aimargues (30 mn from Montpellier)

Segment : Royal Canin

Contract Type : Permanent

To support Royal Canin to become a Health through Nutrition Company, R&D team has an ambition : Step change the longevity and quality of life of cats and dogs by offering personalized, proactive, predictive, and participatory health through nutrition solutions.

Supporting the Global innovation Strategy, the role is investigating and seizing potential new comanufacturers to expand the technology catalogue in line with the trends and consumer need. The role will also BE the RC R&D interface for the comanufacturers during QuEST projects, contributing the design and validation of innovative nutritional solutions by ensuring technical feasibility and compliance to Product Design specifications.

What are we looking for?
Food scientist, Master's degree
More than 5 years' experience in process, or product development, or industrialization in pet food industry
Fluent in English
Mobile (business travel required)
Strong entrepreneur spirit
Agile and autonomous

What will BE your key responsibilities?
Develop new nutritional solution (mainly functional complement and treats) in collaboration with external manufacturer
Understand our consumer to develop the best products (for pets, Pet owners, prescribers, users)
Following market technical trends and technological Innovations
Gather technical experts to identify best technological options (within existing technologies on the market) to answer those pain points and needs.
Define with R&D team which future technologies externally manufactured will need to BE developed to support the Inno strategy.
Communicate the needs and briefs to EM strategic sourcing, ensuring they are engaged into projects.
R&D lead to the expansion of the technology catalogue
Manage the technical Exploration TRL projects, in collaboration with the other members of the EM community (Supply, Q&FS, Regulatory, Commercial) :
Defining the project Scope, the Critical Success Factors and Targets to ensure the capabilities of the prospected EM are thoroughly evaluated.
Driving the project technical risk assessment (TRA)
Coordinate technical execution as planned with the external partner.
Communicating recommendations and presenting results to Gate Keepers
Prepare the project closure and the EM Texture Catalogue, in collaboration with EM supply, ensuring technology feasibility and constraints are clear for future Develop projects.
Consolidate the outcome into the EM Technology and pack Development plan, so that these technologies can BE investigated within Design and Quest
R&D interface for the comanufacturers during QuEST projects, contributing to the design and validation of innovative nutritional solutions
Share with the Solution Designers and the Demand teams the EM catalogue and promotes relevant technologies to concepts, fuelling the Innovation pipeline and NPRs
Translate projects into coman product briefs and technical specifications (KQA and others)
Key Input role for the TRA (Technical risk assessment of the project)
Manage all prototyping phases (Kitchen, pilot trials, and EM Indus trials)
In post-DB phase, the role should BE the Technical Project leader of QUEST executed at coman
Active member of the EM community (Q&FS, Commercial, Supply)
Represent R&D overall when collaborating with external partners, bringing broad technical and scientific expertise.
Closely following the outcome of the external partner search, participates in kick-off meetings and technical visits, collaborates with EM community to recommend, or refuse, potential external partners.
Work In collaboration with Quality and Food Safety for quality Issues related to product design.
Key participating role in the elaboration of the External Manufacturing strategy, with yearly presentations to Senior Leaders.

What can you expect from Mars?-
You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will BE welcomed by more than 100 other Associates' dogs at the office !
You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for : the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group
A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs !
You will evolve in the heart of an innovative production plant that will challenge you, on a daily basis

Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow :
Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world
All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate
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Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.

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