You will drive end to end Product Research and Development for the Ice Cream category, covering transformational, proximity and incremental innovation, as well as continuous improvement and derisking initiatives. This includes defining and evolving product formulations, guiding product technology choices linked to industrialization, and ensuring a smooth and robust transition from development into manufacturing.
Accountability extends to key phases of product industrialization, including tuning, calibration and industrial trials, as well as the continuous improvement of product and process specifications. Following product launch, you will act as a technical reference for product and technology related problem solving, providing expert support to manufacturing teams.
You will ensure the timely and effective execution of product R&D activities, in line with Ice Cream marketing guidance and category priorities. You will support R&D leadership in governance and decision making processes, contribute to the definition and monitoring of R&D investment plans, and track project performance in terms of timing, costs, risks and opportunities. Close collaboration with all key technical functions will be essential to validate technical choices from both formulation and process perspectives.
In addition, you will support Ice Cream R&D management and Category leadership in shaping the product and technology evolution roadmap, contributing to category development plans and associated CAPEX in line with portfolio and industrial strategies. In close collaboration with Industrial & Supply and other technical partners, you will contribute to the definition of investment needs and support the design or modification of machinery and equipment required to enable product industrialization.
