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Principal Scientist - R&D Open Innovation-1302176
– Glenview, IL
Description
Kraft Foods Group is
one of the most admired and largest food and beverage businesses in North
America. We’re also one of the largest worldwide among publicly traded
consumer packaged food and beverage companies, based on our 2012 combined
net revenues of $18.7 billion.
We manufacture
and market food and beverage products, including convenient meals,
Refreshment beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products,
primarily in the United States and Canada, under a host of iconic brands.
Our product categories span breakfast, lunch and dinner meal occasions,
both at home and in foodservice locations.
Our diverse brand
portfolio consists of many of the most popular food brands in North
America, Including three brands with annual net revenues exceeding $1 billion
each – Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats;
and Maxwell House coffees – plus over 20 brands with annual net
revenues of between $100 million and $1 billion each.
In the United
States, based on dollar share in 2012, we hold the number one branded share
position in a majority of our 50 product categories, as well as in 18 of
our top 20 product categories. We hold the number two branded share
position in the other two product categories.
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This position
offers the candidate the opportunity to lead the process of finding new
external technology partners. The candidate must be able to apply deep
technology knowledge of the Meals & Desserts categories and lead the
translation of the business strategies into technology needs such that
roadmap's fully integrate knowledge sharing/collaboration, open sourcing of
innovation, competitive landscape and intellectual property strategies into
a comprehensive technology roadmap. The candidate will be responsible to
lead resources to identify and establish high value, longer term strategic
innovation partnerships with key partners. They will identify and deliver
the opportunities to work more deeply in relationships where the other
parties invest their own resources for mutual long term gain. The candidate
will cultivate relationships external to Kraft with suppliers, acadamia, and industry for the identification of and
investment in emerging technologies and IP strategy development. The
candidate will also need collaborate across BU’s for best practice sharing
in Open Innovation tools and identification of synergist opportunities for
external partnership. The candidate will be an integral member of the
technical community providing coaching and mentorship to the development of
the BU’s technical talent. This opportunity provides the candidate an
excellent opportunity to truly shape and influence Meals & Desserts BU
future in identifying external partnerships to solve technical challenges
in delivering business strategies.
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Lead multidisciplinary teams and process for
identifying & implementing new Open Innovation partnerships for high
value solutions in ingredient, product or technology
licensing/alliances/partnerships in academics, entrepreneurs, start-up
companies and key ingredient/process equipment manufacturers.
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The candidate will provide insights on emerging
technologies, recommended investment areas, with associated risks and
opportunities for Meals& Desserts BU through monitoring the competitor
activities and the technology landscape, external vendors, acedamia, and industry
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The candidate will provide technical mentorship to
developers on an as needed basis to further develop the technical talent
and depth of talent within the Meals R&D team.
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The candidate will construct and negotiate
partnership agreements for all categories.
Internal
and external contacts:
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The candidate will interact with peers and technical
experts on a daily basis in reviewing business needs and then the
development and implementation of action plans against those needs.
·
The candidate will interact with direct management on
a bi- weekly and as needed basis for alignment on recommended action plans,
as well as receiving coaching on career plans.
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The candidate will interact with external vendors,
academia, and industry on regular basis maintain awareness of future trends
and identify opportunities for delivering against business strategies.
Qualifications
Education:
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B.S./M.S. in Food Science, Food Process Engineering,
Chemical Engineering
Functional /
Technical Expertise:
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Product Development in a CPG company (with Kraft or
other Food & Beverage Company).
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Demonstrated success in the development and
commercialization of products requiring the candidate to leverage a
diversity of food science fundamentals.
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Proven experience scaling up bench top formulation to
pilot plant, as well as analysis and interpretation of data to make data
based conclusions and recommendations.
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Experience with NEW product development (innovation)
from concept to commercialization
Competencies / Abilities:
1.
Demonstrated leadership skills in ambiguous
initiatives, leading multidisciplinary teams to solve complex technical
challenges
2.
Strategic ability to make sound decisions based on
forward thinking, long-term assessments and a broad understanding of the
business
3.
Self-Motivated by problem solving and inherent
curiosity to understand how things work.
4.
Ability to deliver creative and innovative solutions
to technical challenges.
5.
Ability to leverage their internal & external
network of professional contacts.
6.
Demonstrated ability to construct licenses and
agreements to effectively negotiate terms and conditions
7.
Provide motivation, inspiration, mentoring and
coaching to develop technical talent.
8.
Open-minded to new ideas & visionary in seeking
out new ideas and opportunities. (internal & external)
9.
Ability to manage multiple complex tasks
concurrently.
10. Excellent verbal,
written, and oral communication.
11. Executional
excellence and personal leadership is a must
Kraft Foods is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Kraft recruits qualified
applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or
national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic
information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital status
or citizenship status.
Job
: Research &
Development Management
Primary
Location
: NA-US-IL-Glenview
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