Technical Head - Bakery

About Kerry

Key responsibilities

• Innovation - Lead projects in the bakery application to deliver topline innovation revenue
• Lead resource allocation for the End Use Market
• Lead understanding, approval, project management and stakeholder management
• Provide key technical inputs to team to ensure timely delivery of applications.
• Work with manager to manage costs for the function and ensure positive ROI.
• Work towards bringing in novel ideas to innovation funnel & ‘New to Kerry’ ideas.
• Productivity - Lead the productivity agenda to deliver profitability improvement
• Existing Business support - Support existing business via high quality application support,training, and development of extended team. Actively work with Regulatory team to alwaysensure compliance for portfolio.
• Team development – Understanding motivators, strengths and weakness of team members and work towards developing team. Use the objective setting process and review mechanismseffectively to develop the team
• Develop self – Develop self to take up new challenges in the field of food science. Keep abreastwith latest trends and technologies, market dynamics, customer & stakeholder challenges andactively seek solutions from & beyond Kerry portfolio.

Qualifications and skills

Must have’s

• Technical background with M. Tech/ M.Sc. in food science/ technology & relevant professional

experience of minimum 12 years

• B. Tech food science/ technology with Minimum 15 years of experience.

• Ability to manage a team of minimum 5 team members towards project delivery.

• Knowledge of handling industrial manufacturing/processing especially for trials at customer place

• Expert level knowledge of Bakery products like hard bakes, soft bakes and wafers/ rolls

• Aware of business and commercial understanding and how RDA impacts the ROI.

• Experience in customer interaction and customer driven technical support.

• Ability to manage internal stakeholders like regulatory, marketing, sales, and project managers.

• Technical understanding of Good Lab Practices

Good to have’s

• Knowledge of plant processes, quality, supply chain, project management areas

• Front end innovation, Design to value and general management area.

• PMP certification/ other project management certifications