.Griffith Foods es un fabricante global de productos alimenticios. Proporcionamos una amplia gama de componentes de sabor y textura para clientes de la industria alimentaria de todo el mundo. Nuestros productos incluyen mezclas de condimentos, mezclas secas, sistemas de recubrimiento, mezclas de masas, migas, sabores, salsas y bases alimentarias que se utilizan en una amplia variedad de aplicaciones, desde aperitivos, carne y pollo procesados hasta platos preparados. Entre nuestros clientes se encuentran procesadores de alimentos, operadores de restaurantes y minoristas de comestibles. Aunque nuestro nombre puede no ser familiar para los consumidores, nuestros productos son componentes clave de los alimentos ofrecidos por muchas de las empresas más reconocidas del mundo.**Summary**: Contributes locally, regionally and globally to enable How to Win and Where to Play initiatives with specific focus on elevating Food Science capabilities and technologies related to the Sauces & Dressings product category.**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:- Collaborates cross-functionally to assess market, consumer and customer needs, capitalizes on technical capability advantages and address capability gaps to identify future growth paths.- Manages R&D process of optimizing the innovation portfolio across product categories, customer segments and geographies with specific focus on Sauces & Dressings- Makes go/no-go decisions to prioritize and deprioritize projects as necessary and provides project updates in collaboration with Marketing and NA stakeholders.- Partners with Marketing, Culinary and NBD to deliver proactive product platforms infused with innovation technologies and designed to solve consumer problems for a broad range of customers.- Builds innovation culture across regional/unit cross-functional teams.- Validates business cases and assumptions to prioritize innovation projects and support resource allocation decisions.- Responsible for fiscal and LRP innovation financial targets, with specific focus on Sauces & Dressings.- Identifies and executes processes to protecting the integrity and confidentiality of technical innovations (security, patentability)- Identifies and collaborates with strategic partnerships to co-develop and promote intellectual property.- Integrates tools and approaches that drive technology initiatives and Griffith Foods' digital transformation- Regarded as an internal and external Sauces & Dressings product category thought leader to enable Product Leadership positioning.- Leads and manages resources to develop and execute project plans/briefs that communicate objectives, measurements, variables, methodologies, resources and timing required.- Works with Marketing, Sensory, Purchasing and Commercial Team teams to execute the commercialization/go-to-market execution plan.- Identifies and engages targeted external innovation partners (suppliers, academia, consultants, NGOs)