Especialista innovación nuevos productos – Nuevos Productos

Job Description

Especialista Innovación Nuevos Productos | Cargill

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Cargill, located in Villa Gorgona, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Cargill is a global team of 160,000 employees committed to safely, responsibly, and sustainably nourishing the world. This position is within Cargill’s protein and salt business, which provides healthy, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from food service operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters. The role coordinates, aligns, and drives innovation in new and existing products, providing technical expertise essential for product line growth and the development of new capabilities.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Villa Gorgona, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
• Team: Part of a dedicated team within the protein and salt business, collaborating with cross-functional professionals.
• Mission: Coordinate, align, and innovate through the exploration, development, and implementation of new and existing products, providing technical expertise to drive product growth and create new capabilities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Innovate: Coordinate, align, and drive innovation through the exploration, development, and implementation of new and existing products.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical expertise for new product development, product line growth, and the creation of new technology or processes to build capabilities.
• Identify Solutions: Pinpoint and implement technical solutions that meet business objectives.
• Collaborate: Partner with cross-functional teams including marketing, insights, sales, operations, food safety quality, and regulatory to achieve goals.
• Analyze and Develop: Provide insights from findings and analysis, research, and market data to develop short-term and long-term testing programs for experimental and commercial products and hybrids.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Engineering in food, chemical, or biochemical fields. An experienced professional providing technical leadership.
• Experience: Minimum three years of work experience related to poultry and/or processed meats (sausages) product development. Prior experience in a food manufacturing environment, a matrix organization, operations, leading teams, and product management is required.
• Skills: Technical guidance for products, process development/improvement, quality systems, and regulatory oversight; market data analysis and interpretation; identifying product growth opportunities; independent problem-solving for moderately complex issues; cross-functional partnership.
• Bonus: Master’s or other postgraduate degree, expertise in business-critical evolving technology, strategic thinking with the ability to build effective plans, intermediate English.